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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 millions [...]

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’ [...]

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 will [...]

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 Expropriation or [...]