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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 Spyware / Adware Removal Using a program called Ad-aware, you can delete most of the commonly used Spyware programs from your computer. What is Ad-aware?Ad-Aware [...]

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 Browser HijackersAside from downloading and installing programs at your volition, the Web is filled with all different sorts of booby traps for you fall into. [...]

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   Is Spyware illegal?No. But privacy minded people could have a strong opinion about software being installed to track web usage on their home computers. [...]

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   What is Spyware?A general term for a computer program that gathers data and reports the findings back to an advertiser or internet marketing firm. [...]

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 Spyware / Adware IntroductionWith the explosion of peer to peer file sharing on the net comes new methods of advertising to pay for operating costs [...]

I was actually looking up KLite Tools to see if the guy has done any further development and saw that emule plus had a new release today.Changelog:FEATURE: added active, paused and stopped files counters to download list header [netwolf]FEATURE: added Client context menu to the Comments dialog [katsyonak]FEATURE: new community statistics tree [DonGato]FEATURE: added a [...]

On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America filed another round of lawsuits against people who allegedly downloaded and shared copyrighted music. In doing so, the association finally topped the 3,000-served mark. The association argues that file sharing is directly responsible for the widely reported slump in CD sales from 2000 to 2003. This, however, [...]

The man who invented the Esperanto of the technology world enabling computers to swap information freely has died. Bob Bemer developed the Ascii coding system to standardise the way computers represent letters, numbers, punctuation marks and some control codes. He also introduced the backslash and escape key to the world of computers and was one [...]

Peer2Beer is a p2p client and server very similar to eDonkey. It allows you to share files, search and download them in small blocks from any other client.Peer2Beer boasts these cool, refreshing and sexy features: 100% Spyware and adware FREE, 100% respectful of your privacy. *File type and rich search with adult and dangerous file [...]

So remember that settlement last year that forced the RIAA to pay $143 million in fines? Here’s an article on what the state of Washington received as their portion of the settlement. Here are some choice excerpts: 387 Big Pun Albums 356 copies of Barry White’s “Staying Power” 310 copies of Will Smith, “Willenium” 204 [...]