The UK’s record  The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has said 7.4 million people in the UK are swapping songs online illegally. “It is causing real financial damage to everyone involved in the business,” said BPI chairman Peter Jamieson. A new instant messaging campaign on the internet will be used to warn users they are obtaining [...]

The British record industry has put illegal filesharers of music on notice that if they continue with their activities they risk court action. UK record companies’ trade association the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) this morning unveiled research indicating that 8.0m people in the UK claim to be downloading music – 92% of them (7.4m people) [...]

In a letter received today by University President Kay Norton, RIAA President Cary Sherman declares war on student file-sharers. Dear President Norton: I am President of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). I wanted to give you a personal “heads up” that tomorrow, Tuesday, March 23rd, several of the RIAA’s member companies will file [...]

New Zealanders are to be given the legal right to copy CDs, but under condition that they own a genuine, original recording. It will also be made possible for consumers to shift the format of music from CD to MP3 without infringing copyright. The New Zealand government will introduce a ‘fair use’ clause into their [...]

From The Smoking Gun: “. . . Secret Service agents last month raided the Los Angeles home of a Fox Entertainment employee suspected of involvement in an online conspiracy . . . According to the . . . Secret Service affidavit, more than a dozen illegally duplicated movies were actually housed on a Fox computer [...]

The Gate Reports: According to Reuters, it looks like Jack Valenti’s days as the chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America are numbered. That’s the word at least after the film advocate reportedly told media at the ShoWest convention that he expects to retire within the next few months. “This is the [...]

Officials for several of the universities involved, including George Washington University, Loyola Marymount University, University of Southern California and Stanford University had no immediate comment. Several commercial online music services like Napster, the once-renegade song-swap service relaunched as a legal business by parent company Roxio Inc. in October 2003, are increasingly marketing themselves to colleges [...]

The MusicBrainz Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn’t recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM ids) of your files back to [...]

As the Recording Industry Association of America continues its push to shut down digital pirates, the industry group suffered its own defeat online. According to data from Internet watcher Netcraft, the trade group’s site has not been reachable for nearly five days. The Internet performance measurement company believes that the root of the outage is [...]

Author: Chip WarnerProgram Type: Freeware File Description: Diet Kaza removes banners, popup ads, spyware, and more from KaZaa before they are even downloaded. It can also filter your proxy to remove any spyware communications. It makes searches quicker with more results. Removes all ads from the interface of the program, including the BonziBuddy/shopping icons. Adds quick search [...]

FixTunes (http://www.fixtunes.com) just came out this weekend.   It is a software program that scans your music library and automatically downloads the correct artist, album, title, track, genre and year information – cleaning up your entire collection (and making it a whole lot easier to browse on your new iPod). FixTunes works by connecting to a database [...]

Ayzoo 3.0 Search for any kind of files from music MP3 to videos, games, or how-to courses on millions of users computers on the Gnutella Network. Place free ads for your own products. Preview files before you download them. Automatically resume downloads from multiple sources simultaneously. Universal Chat – talk with friends on MSN, AIM, [...]

A pair of coders nurturing a deep antipathy for software pirates set off a controversy Thursday when they went public with a months-old experiment to trick file sharers into running a Trojan horse program that chastises users and reports back to a central server. As of Thursday, the crime-busting duo’s server had logged over 12,000 [...]

MediaSeek.pl is the first P2P network to enable finding and queuing files using a mobile phone! Simply have MediaSeek.pl Client running on your PC and use your mobile-phone’s WAP browser to search and request the songs you want. More info…Other hot new features include forums and song comments implemented to the web-based interface.The new version [...]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — There’s a new legal battle over Kazaa — and this time it has nothing to do with swapping copyrighted music online. A native of Romania is filing suit and he claims that he wrote the source code to the popular file-sharing software. In addition to seeking the rights to the [...]

Bway.net is hoping to lure RIAA wary customers with a new anonymous DSL service dubbed AnonDSL. The company says the service is “the ultimate tool for protecting your identity from tracking by the RIAA, MPAA or anyone else” because it makes your “online activities untraceable.” According to the product’s FAQ, Bway claims users “are entitled [...]

Just in, the Zeropaid Beanies are now in stock! I know, I know it’s a little bit late in the season for beanies but everyone needs one sooner or later. We had some spare cash laying around so we thought our die hard members would love this present. We have 2 colors; white and black. The beanies come [...]

From: Toad Subject: Stable build 5076 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:09:24 +0000 Freenet stable build 5076 is now available. The snapshots have been updated. You can get the build via the update.sh script on Linux, BSD, or OS/X, or use the freenet-webinstall.exe utility to update on Windows, or get the jar from http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/freenet-latest.jar . [...]

Slyck reports that news has finally broke regarding the sudden shut down of ShareReactor. It appears the Swiss Judical Inquiry Department of Thurgau has taken the site down due to copyright infringement. Internet-Site taken offline FRAUENFELD (kapo) Due to the suspicion of breach of copyright and trademark laws the cantonal judicial Inquiry department of Thurgau [...]

Groove Networks is updating its collaboration software this week, releasing a beta version of Groove 3.0. It is available to licensed users of Groove version 2.0 and higher, and the final version is expected to roll out in early summer. Groove’s software, which was first released in 2000, uses a peer-to-peer networking model to connect [...]