The MPAA tries to turn junior high school into antipiracy boot camp. The producer tells her sad story with her fists curled inside the sleeves of an oversize hooded sweatshirt: “I’m, like, losing my job, and maybe I, like, need that money for my family or something.” The cause of her consternation: peer-to-peer file-sharing, which [...]

Yesterday, Apple released iTunes 4.5, which deliberately broke the 4.2 authentication scheme, which had been successfully reverse-engineered. However, crazney has been at it again, and within 24 hours of downloading iTunes 4.5, has broken the new scheme, and added more features to this library along the way.Check the source for more information.

A new file-trading network has sprung up on Internet2, the university network that offers researchers and students a way to communicate at blazing speeds while avoiding the ordinary Internet’s data traffic jams. Dubbed i2hub, the network has drawn thousands of students from universities around the country to trade files and chat at speeds that far [...]

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) – The U.S. Army is telling soldiers to get off the popular peer-to-peer networks because file sharing is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism, according to Pentagon memos and an article published by the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command. “Since the start of the global war on terrorism, the most pressing [...]

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Apple Investigating iPod Update ProblemsBy Ina Fried Apple Computer said Thursday that it is investigating reports that some iPod owners have had trouble updating their devices to take advantage of the company’s latest version of its iTunes jukebox software. The Mac maker on Wednesday released an iPod software update in conjunction with its enhancement of [...]

iTunes lets you create your own personal digital music library, allowing you to manage and play your music collection with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes, the software part of the equation that lets you pack 7,500 songs in your pocket, automatically synchronizes with the sensational new iPod at high speeds over FireWire. iTunes gives you the ability [...]

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Apple’s iTunes allows Macintosh and PC users to play music stored on other PCs on a network. The music is streamed off the other computer. But file-swapping enthusiasts quickly created other programs, such as MyTunes, to capture the songs and allow them to be saved to the computer’s hard drive. With the latest iteration–version 4.5–Apple [...]

The LimeWire 3.9.7 beta is released, with the pro version available from a link on your Pro download page, and the free version available (with NO BUNDLED SOFTWARE) from the LimeWire download page.Changes include:- Search result status icons (saved, incomplete, downloading, etc…) now update to reflect the file’s ongoing status. The ‘saved’ icon will also [...]

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, in a conference call today marking the one-year anniversary of the iTunes Music Store, reiterated his past comments about the prospects for portable video players, such as the Portable Media Center devices set to debut later this year around a new type of Microsoft software. In short, he thinks they’re [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Frisbee-throwers and lawmakers alike could soon be able to access free wireless Internet on Washington’s National Mall under a plan announced by a nonprofit group on Wednesday. Members of the Open Park Project already have set up a wireless access point covering the Supreme Court and the Capitol and say they hope [...]

Apple Computer on Wednesday celebrated the first birthday of its iTunes Music Store by unveiling more than a half-dozen new features for the popular online music service. The company also touted the fact that more than 70 million songs have been purchased to date from its online service. But while that figure is large, it [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America filed a new round of copyright lawsuits against 477 anonymous music file swappers Wednesday, bringing the total number of people sued to nearly 2,500 in eight months. As with March’s wave of suits, the organization highlighted its litigation against university students, this time at 14 separate schools. Record labels [...]

The number of U.S. music fans downloading music online increased by 27 percent between November 2003 and March 2004, research claims. Pew Internet & American Life Project ran a survey among 1371 Internet users to reach its estimates, which include users of file sharing networks (LimeWire, Kazaa) and legal services, such as Apple Computer’s ITunes [...]

Over the past few weeks, purely as a research project of course, we have downloaded from the internet 4.74 GB of MP3 music, which amounts to 968 tracks or 56 albums – from a collection of artists that ranges from Norah Jones through the Beatles, Janis Ian, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Paul Simon and Joni [...]

Apple released iTunes 4.5, iPod software 2.2, QuickTime 6.5.1 and relaxed iTunes Music Store restrictions: now music tracks purchased can be authorized to play on up to five other computers, instead of three. Apple has reduced the number of times you can burn a playlist to an audio CD from ten to seven. Another new [...]

Program : G3 Torrent Version : 0.995 Homepage : http://g3torrent.sourceforge.net Download : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g3torrent/g3torrent-0.995.exe?download G3 Torrent Change Log: -0.995 – April 24, 04′ * Added a tracker manager dialog. Can add/remove trackers from the the announce list. Right click to manually poll the selected tracker immediatly. * Added a few more color options for the main [...]

RevConnect uses DC++ as codebase and adds below features: Magnet link and bitzi lookup support Auto drop slow sources Kademlia to be hub independent and make search more effective Secure user identification and credit reward system to anti leechers Multiple sources download simultaneously Memory mapped files to enhance file I/O and save HD’s lifespan Notes: Install/Start: [...]