Got a SPAM about this “Napster Replacement,” as they are touting. It’s a pay-by-month P2P service, but some of you might be interested. Here’s what the MP3Bundle homepage has to say: Millions of Internet users have joined the exclusive club that allows them to find and immediately download ALL the latest Movies, songs, and mp3s [...]

From CNet The U.S. Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility, dealing a preliminary defeat to Hollywood studios and electronics makers. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor placed a ruling by the California Supreme Court on hold last week, but rescinded her emergency stay on Friday. O’Connor’s decision came in [...]

“The shares are currently at 144p and sit at a record relative low. This is due in part to the profound fears among investors over internet piracy and illegal downloading of free songs. But the overall recorded music market only fell 5 per cent last year – and the music industry has survived many other [...]

This will be my last K++ for a while since I’m pretty busy at the moment. So I decided to add some small fixes I forgot in K++ v2.00. New in K++ v2.02: * Unlimited number of sources per file (old 40). Default is still 40 so change the registry key. * Find more sources [...]

Napshare, a fully automated Gnutella client has released V1.2 for Linux. Take a nap while your computer does all the work! Searching and automatic downloading can happen without any user intervention. V1.2 uses GWebCache to get started, new private LAN support and bug fixes. NapShare has builtin keyword filters and can use external perl scripts [...]

Hmm, another version of this program has been released. This is an add on tool for kazaa/kazaa lite. The point of the tool is to boost downloading speed by searching for more sources and prompting Kazaa to try more frequently, and to obstruct bad practices by selfish and thoughtless Kazaa users who download from you. [...]

Ever wanted to run a no-hassle web site on your own PC? The new 2.1 release of BadBlue adds dynamic DNS support so you can create a file-sharing web server on your own PC. You can create your own web address like http://jsmith.dyndns.org … and your friends can surf to your PC (even if you [...]

Blipster returns results from over 5 different networks including Gnutella, Freeshare, eDonkey, ftp, and http. Blipster is a fast p2p file sharing program. Search and download MP3′s, videos and more from various different networks including Gnutella. Blipster offers an easy to use interface, fast and reliable search results, and uses very little system resources. Only [...]

From CNet.com… Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of $200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft’s Xbox video game console. “The revelation was made in a posting earlier this week on the Xbox Linux Project site at SourceForge, [...]

From Business Week While the economy and stock markets struggled, 2002 was a golden year for the silver screen. Thanks to blockbuster hits such as Spider-Man, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings, ticket sales hit $9.3 billion worldwide, a remarkable 13% rise over 2001′s then-record receipts. So much for claims that piracy threatens Hollywood’s [...]

Download galaxyPeer v1.0.1 [542KB] F e a t u r e s § Search the Gnutella File Sharing Network to find MP3 and other files! The Gnutella Network is also used by Bearshare, Limewire, Gnucleus and Morpheus! § Chat on IRC – the Internet Relay Chat network – whilst sharing. § Compatible with one or [...]

From ZDNet.com COMMENTARY BY Charles Cooper The do-gooders have found a new cause for 2003: Saving the Internet from the private interests intent on mucking up the cyber landscape. Considering that 40 percent of all U.S. citizens have been online for more than three years and that most are able to find the information they [...]

From Wired The Recording Industry Association of America may not want people to share digital files, but the organization certainly seems to be in favor of open access to its website. On Monday, the RIAA site was hacked for the sixth time in six months. This time, the defacement resulted in bogus press releases on [...]

Yet another great add-on for Kazaa. Kazap stays integrated into Kazaa’s bottom left hand corner with a number of cool options to click. Kazap has does the following: Clear downloaded Clear Uploaded Find more sources start queued restart failed Prevent hogging Kill uploads slower than… Kill uploads if user… (great for terminating leech uploads!) Pause [...]

Due to the compression, which leaves certain sounds out, the ears would become lazy and degrade. Unlike with compression and decompression of computer programs (e.g. ZIP), that is to say, during lossy data compression (data reduction) the original signal is not reconstructed 1:1, but to reduce the data amount, only control signals for a synthesizer [...]

Article from News.com Microsoft is set to release its first mainstream consumer software application protected by product activation, in what could be a first step toward expanding use of the antipiracy technology. On Tuesday, Microsoft plans to officially launch Plus Digital Media Edition (DME), a $19.95 add-on pack for the Windows XP operating system. Microsoft [...]

New Page 1 Bottler is an application that creates an interface to IRC offer bots. If you know where to look, there are hundreds of bots offering hundreds of files. The problem is that finding those files involves hanging out in IRC channels and watching reams of text stream pass. Bottler does all the watching [...]

Entire story at Christian Science Monitor Did you get a CD in your Christmas stocking this year? The recording industry sure hopes so. But even if you purchased some of the 624.2 million CDs sold in the United States as of Dec. 22, record labels and retailers are not happy with you. Not happy at [...]

Hey, New Year’s Day, right? Good opportunity to release a new client! In anticipation of the release of the Gnutella2 specs, I’ve dusted off the cover of my old C manual and begun work on Shinobu, which is indeed a Gnutella2 client for Linux. I’m in no way planning a Shareaza clone; heck, the thing [...]