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Jun 30 2004

Dell Wants to Buy Your iPod

Dell wants your old iPod and is willing to pay to get it.

The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker on Wednesday unveiled an offer that grants music player customers a $100 rebate on a 15GB Digital Jukebox when they send it an Apple Computer iPod music player to be recycled.

The rebate, available only on [...]

Jun 30 2004

KaZaA’s Declining Popularity

The owners of the popular Kazaa file-swapping software have withstood assaults from the record industry for years, but now they’re facing a new enemy that may be even harder to fight: competition.

When a federal judge shut down Napster in 2001, Kazaa parent Sharman Networks quickly stepped in as the replacement of choice, signing up millions [...]

Jun 30 2004

ISPs Found Not Liable for Customer’s Infringement

Internet service providers cannot be held liable for the copyright infringement of their subscribers, even when a cached copy of a work is held on local servers, a Canadian court has ruled.

The decision on Wednesday marked an important victory for the country’s ISPs, which were worried about being held legally or financially responsible for subscribers’ [...]

Jun 30 2004

File Sharing Grows, But Slowly

Legal action against file sharers did little to reduce the amount of trading. Most of the files are copyrighted songs and movies which makes the trade illegal. According to study by Sandvine, a network monitoring company in Ontario, there’s been no decline in file-sharing. File-sharing in Europe has not dropped, but there’s a 5% drop from [...]

Jun 29 2004

Lan2P Beta 14 Released

“Lan2P allows you to exchange files with other people running the software on a computer network. Because it does not rely on a central server and mutates its connectivity, it is virtually unstoppable.”Although not much was changed or added in the way of features in this release, the two major updates here are in speed [...]

Jun 29 2004

Steve Winwood? Access Hollywood? KaZaA?

Veteran rocker Steve Winwood has partnered with “Access Hollywood” in an experimental marketing alliance intended to demonstrate the commercial potential of file-sharing networks such as Kazaa, according to people involved in the project.

The deal is one of the first to use sponsored downloads to support commercial music on the same peer-to-peer networks that the [...]

Jun 28 2004

Senate bill S. 2560 would outlaw the iPod

A new Senate bill (S. 2560 – “The INDUCE Act”) would make businesses liable for customers who use their product to make unauthorized copies. Legal experts say this bill would give the big record companies grounds to sue Apple for selling the Apple iPod. People need to act right now to save the iPod:www.savetheipod.com 
Folks will [...]

Jun 27 2004

DC++ 0.403

Publisher’s Description:DC++ is an open source C++ client for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits.
Changes: — 0.403 2004-06-27 –* Fixed 100% cpu / crash bug — 0.402 2004-06-27 –* Fixed transfer view crash (thanks garg)* Removed default sort in search frame* Window [...]

Jun 27 2004

Senate passes bill to impose civil fines for illegal downloading

Senate passes bill to impose civil fines for illegal downloading
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate agreed to legislation Friday that would allow the Justice Department to use civil penalties to go after people who illegally share and download computer files over the Internet.
Under the legislation — called the Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation or [...]

Jun 26 2004

The Spyware and Adware Guide VI

Spyware / Adware Navigation

1. Intro

2. What is Spyware / Adware

3. Is Spyware illegal?

4. Browser Hijackers a & others

5. Adaware Tutorial

6. Spyware / Adware Links

 
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