LAS VEGAS– Sheryl Crow, Dr. Dre, and Alicia Keys were among the major recording artists who backed Carly Fiorina on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show here Thursday, where the Hewlett-Packard chairman and CEO took perhaps the toughest stand yet by a technology industry executive against digital music piracy. At a conference where products for [...]

Changes ———————– Jan 05th, 2003     -———————-bluecow: Fixed several flaws in client and server overhead computation. (Note: You will see somehow increased overhead).bluecow: Added Kademlia overhead statistics.bluecow: Added client protocol handshake validation.bluecow: To avoid spreading of false meta data, any (already) received meta data is dropped and locally created by examining file contents only.bluecow: Fixed bug [...]

DICE is hybrid server to host IRC clients and opennap clients, and has capability of web server, on Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003.DICE version 0.83 was released (2004/01/09)What’s new+ Added configuration option to change the size of banned IP address pool+ [IRC] Implemented built-in spam-killer bot in ghost as “/shell admin ghost spamkill”+ [IRC] Renamed [...]

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is accusing South Korea of failing to halt the piracy of American movies and music that it said was costing U.S. companies millions of dollars in lost revenue. The administration announced Thursday that South Korea was being added to a priority list of countries that [...]

Legal Downloads 10 Cents at MusicRebellion.com A little known online music store is experimenting with a new pricing system in which most songs start out costing a dime, and their prices fluctuate from there based on customer demand. MusicRebellion, a site that has gone largely unnoticed in the furor over larger companies such as Apple [...]

Peer-to-peer music downloads may be declining as a result of the record industry’s efforts to prosecute copyright violators, but the actions also appear to have contributed to an increase in traffic to paid online music sites such as Roxio’s Napster and Apple’s iTunes. On Tuesday, MediaDailyNews reported on significant declines in music downloading and file-sharing [...]

PARIS — Hollywood’s bid to control how its movies are copied, stored and played is being tested by an unlikely source: a former French oil engineer in an out-of-the-way Paris suburb, Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal reported. Henri Crohas’s company, Archos SA, makes a small hand-held device, like a bulky Palm Pilot, that can record and [...]

Copy-protection company Macrovision said Wednesday that it sued DVD-copying software producer 321 Studios, joining the movie industry in a legal fight against the small software maker. Macrovision claims that by making copies of DVDs, 321′s software also is copying Macrovision’s own patented anticopying technology, which guards against a different copying process. “This lawsuit is based [...]

Nearly halfway around the world from Hollywood, a 17-year-old high-school student is trying to make a name for himself as a film distributor. Unlike the moguls in Tinseltown, though, he and his colleagues in a group called MysticVCD don’t cut deals, take meetings or campaign for Oscars. Instead, their goal is to put a movie [...]

The group wants EMI, Universal, Sony and BMG to stop releasing copy-protected CDs and to reimburse fans. But the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a trade group, said the suit was baseless. The copy protection technology was introduced two years ago by record companies who faced a sales slump and wanted to stop [...]

Dawned to the last CVS of DC++ and to the last source of the CZDC++- Added options for being able to visualize or less the various columns in list customer (CZDC++)- Added ctrl up/down/home/end in the private windows for the historian of the inserted lines, it works like in main (CZDC++)- Added to red color [...]

It looks like young Norwegian computer whiz Jon Lech Johansen can finally rest easy after years of legal challenges. State prosecutors announced Monday that they won’t appeal a recent court ruling in his favour.That means the latest legal victory for Johansen, known as DVD-Jon, will be left standing. The now-20-year-old computer expert won’t need to [...]

MAC Waste Version 1.0c (Mac OS X 1.0f) MAC WASTE This release of Waste for the Macintosh has been built and tested on Mac OS X version 10.2.6 and it intended for users that are comfortable using “Alpha” quality code and don’t mind limited functionality and occasional crashes or annoying bugs. The release (version 1.0f) [...]

New logo from website Some new (working) discovery services Slight change in discovery service logic to improve connection performance Support for new global statistics collection Fixed BitTorrent 256 file issue Fixed a major problem that was causing no KHLs to exist on the network Added some logic to kick poor performing hubs Messages are no [...]

An Essay by Tad Coffin (Friend of the Zp Crew)http://mediatitan.com/mt3/resources/future_of_the_internet.php The Internet will be the main source of all types of media in the very near future. Even in its infancy the Internet has expanded into every form of reproducible media there is. Rock paintings can be seen from thousands of miles away with a [...]

What is BitComet?BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatiable with BitTorrent, along with a lot of improvement. No adware nor spyware.Why BitComet?Completely new network core with state-of-art designing, very low CPU and RAM usage. Simple-look but handy interface, no need to learn how to use at all. Disk cache mechanism, decrease the potential damage [...]

The Circle is a peer-to-peer application that provides file sharing, instant messaging, and news services. The method it uses to search for files and people theoretically scales to millions of users. Advanced features include the ability to download a file from multiple sources simulataneously, the ability to send messages to people who are not currently [...]

In addition, the argument has proven so persuasive that members of Congress have concurred with the RIAA’s “sue ‘em all” campaign, entitling the music industry to protect their copyrights at the expense of the American people’s rights. While the RIAA was quick to single out file-sharing as the primary reason for slumping CD sales, other [...]

The worm infects a users Windows machine then emails itself to the users address book. The email accuses the recepient of copyright theft and alleges a list of files is attached. The attachment contains the virus. The email reads like this: Ladies and Gentlemen, Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by [...]

Richard Menta over at MP3newswire.net just posted his annual winners and losers list in digital music for last year. The big winner is Apple for dominating MP3 portable player sales and the dramatic success of its iTunes service. Napster savior Roxio and the small independent record labels also made the winners list. The losers list [...]