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Did you guys see this one? Disney and some others movie studios threatened legal action against DVDCoverArt.com (which offers high-res scans of dvd covers and custom covers), so the site owners had to shut it down.
story here:
http://p072.ezboard.com/fdvdepotcustomerforumfrm27.showMessage?topicID=3835.topic

Music fans in the UK, France and Germany downloaded over 800,000 tracks from Apple Computer’s iTunes online music store in its first week of operations in Europe, the company has announced.

In Britain alone, 450,000 songs were downloaded from iTunes since June 15th, when the service launched in Europe.

“iTunes’ success is indicative that there is space [...]

Cory Doctorow, sci-fi author and evangelist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation journeyed to Microsoft and gave a paper on why DRM is a bad thing. In the paper he makes 5 assertions:

1. That DRM systems don’t work
2. That DRM systems are bad for society
3. That DRM systems are bad for business
4. That DRM systems are [...]

Making a connection between online file trading and child exploitation, key Democratic and Republican senators are backing a bill that would effectively ban peer-to-peer networks where copyright infringement takes place.
Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a Republican of Utah, sought to dispel some of the early criticisms of his proposal, saying in [...]

WASHINGTON– A group of technology vendors, consumer rights groups, and ISPs are banding together to support 18-month-old U.S. House legislation that would let consumers make personal copies of copyrighted digital products, including movies and music.
The Personal Technology Freedom Coalition has kicked an effort to push the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act through Congress. [...]

Introduction Hagelslag is an implementation of GNUtella. The main goals for this implementation are flexibility, stability and performance. The development of Hagelslag was primarily aimed at i386 machines running Linux, as of version 0.8, FreeBSD is supported as well. Release Notes 0.14.1* Fixed bug with PUSH downloads* Fixed all similar hashValue related bugs* Fixed downloader [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America launched a new round of lawsuits Tuesday against online music-swappers, targeting 482 individuals around the United States.

As with previous rounds of suits filed by the music industry group, the “John Doe” lawsuits come without names attached. The identities of the individuals are expected to come out through a [...]

The Beastie Boys have finally released a new album. This CD, unlike their previous releases, installs copy-protection software on Windows and Mac PCs. It’s bad enough copy-protecting the CD, however the record label EMI is being particularly egregious because they install the software without telling the user. You know, sort of like a virus.

Cinema staff in the US are being offered up to $500 (£275) to catch people recording movies on camcorders. The reward scheme is being run by film studios and movie theatres in a bid to stop piracy, which costs the industry billions of dollars each year.
Staff can qualify for the reward by catching the perpetrators, [...]

New Features:

Core | Health items now show if a torrent is being shared/published
Core | Creation of self-signed certificates for SSL (etc) via UI
Core | Set download speed per torrent
Dev | ToolTip access functions for table cells
Plug | Tracker plugin supports simple category view
Plug | Webui support for password protected trackers
Plug | Webui attempts to get [...]