ReutersMay 26, 2004, 5:31 PM PT Online music provider Napster, which transformed itself from a pioneering song-swap Web site to a pay-for-use service, said on Wednesday it has launched a Canadian version of its operation. Napster, a division of software maker Roxio, said it will offer its music subscription service and an Internet music store [...]

ReutersMay 26, 2004, 9:55 PM PT Electronics salesman Min Shushan can talk for hours about the merits of Sony’s PlayStation 2 versus Microsoft’s Xbox, having taken apart hundreds of consoles over the years to rig them for pirated games. Customers at his glass-and-chrome specialty store in the heart of old Beijing can buy consoles made [...]

According to a report by Munhwa Ilbo on Thursday, Dongnyuk Law firm plans to bring charges against 20 Korean Internet users for violating copyright laws. Those netizens are accused of downloading and sharing singer Baek Ji-young’s music video “Concert for Adults” and several movies -including “Kill Bill 2”, “The Grudge 2”, and “Shin Yukiguni”- on [...]

by Will Knight The threat of legal action and hefty fines has done little to stop internet users around the world trading music and video files, according to a new study of network traffic. The vast majority of shared files are copyrighted music or video, making the sharing illegal. In an effort to stamp out [...]

By Seth Jayson If there’s anything we Americans like better than getting stuff for free, it’s dragging people into court to try to stop it. That’s the only lesson from the continuing war in online music downloads. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed another 500 file “sharers,” while a recent study concludes [...]

Fed up with spyware or fearing lawsuits, file swappers are going underground or giving up by Liane Cassavoy The number of surfers using Kazaa’s file-sharing software is down to 20 million people, compared to almost 35 million users less than one year ago, according to research from ComScore Media Metrix. But the steep decline doesn’t [...]

A proposal that the Senate may vote on as early as next week would let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against suspected copyright infringers, with fines reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. The so-called Pirate Act is raising alarms among copyright lawyers and lobbyists for peer-to-peer firms, who have been eyeing the [...]

Interesting post on Slashdot: aaronsorkin writes “The Recording Industry Association of America has discovered that digital radio broadcasts can be copied and redistributed over the Internet, and so it is pushing the FCC to adopt an audio broadcast flag, which would likely prevent users from sending copyrighted radio programs over the Internet. But it could [...]

The beleaguered global music industry says it expects to seen an increase in music sales next year. New legal download services combined with an anti-piracy campaign have given the industry cause for optimism. Keith Jopling, head of market research at the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry, said: “We are turning a corner.” Global sales [...]

It may be better known as the purveyor of grunge style and ethnic throws to Britain’s student population. But Oxfam is about to reach the cutting edge of digital technology by becoming the first charity to launch its own music download site with backing from Coldplay and George Michael. The charity, which is already strongly [...]

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) – A U.S. music industry group said Monday it had sued 493 more people for copyright infringement as part of its campaign to stop consumers from copying music over the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America has now sued nearly 3,000 individuals since last September in an attempt to discourage [...]

From the author: Hi there, I released a new software called Sigster. Sigster is a search engine that finds hash quicklinks on the web. These quicklinks helps you download virus-free and fake-free files from various p2p networks. Sigster finds Ed2k, Sig2dat and BitTorrent links, which means that you can search for files in the following [...]

A computer science professor and graduate student have been awarded a patent for a method of thwarting illegal file sharing on peer-to-peer networks by flooding the network with bogus files that look like pirated music. The software creates bogus files with attributes — such as file names and description tags — that make them look [...]

EMI records £163m loss Mark Tran Monday May 24, 2004 EMI, the world’s third-largest music company, today reported a pre-tax loss of £163.3m, but predicted a return to growth thanks to positive trends in the US. The EMI chairman, Eric Nicoli, predicted that sales in the global recorded music market would be between flat and [...]

A group supporting the arrested developer of the popular file-sharing software Winny has raised over 10 million yen for his lawyers, it has been learned. And a site set up Wednesday in support of the 33-year-old developer, Isamu Kaneko, has received over 1 million hits a day, it has been reported. The account to receive [...]

  Overview ABC is an improved client for the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file distribution solution. ABC is based on The Shad0w’s Bittorrent experimental S-5.8.11 which extended from from Original Bittorrent Core System , coded by Bram Cohen. Change Log Version 2.6.6a Fixed bug in 2.6.6 that prevented Local Upload Settings dialog from appearing Enlarged status bar [...]

Though the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been tackling copyright infringement by slapping lawsuits on online peer-to-peer file sharers, recent research shows musicians are not convinced it is in their best interest. New research from the Pew Internet Project claims that most musicians do not believe the RIAA’s lawsuits will benefit artists.Pew Internet [...]

Use the Shinkuro software to share files across enterprise boundaries – securely. Just install the software on each machine, create a group and designate a folder you would like to share with the group. Any files you put in that folder will be shared with the other members automatically. Shinkuro also includes secure instant messaging [...]

Deepnet Explorer is the world’s first browser to offer fully integrated P2P file sharing capabilities and a built-in RSS/ATOM news reader. It’s bursting with new features like tabbed browsing, pop blocker, auto login, form filler, P2P technology and it’s 100% free. So now it is easy to browse the web, share files and read news [...]

New Version FeaturesVersion: 2.0Date of Release: May 20th, 2004The new XoloX 2.0 Software includes:• No Spyware or hijackware• Seamless and simultaneous searches of files shared by users of Morpheus, Gnutella, Kazaa, eDonkey, iMesh, Overnet, Grokster, Limewiere, G2, and other peer-to-peer networks.• Multi-sourced downloads–for fast and efficient file acquisition• Integrated access to public proxy networks–provides greater anonymity in sharing and [...]