French ISPs will collaborate with the music industry to send automatic warnings to any of their subscribers seen illegally sharing copyright-protected files online, as part of an overall move to stamp out online piracy. The move is one of several contained in a charter for the development of online music distribution in France signed Wednesday [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. is unhappy with RealNetworks Inc.’s move this week to make its RealPlayer music service compatible with Apple’s market-leading iPod digital music player and may take legal action to counter it, the company said on Thursday.  Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL – news) said in a statement it is “stunned that RealNetworks [...]

1. settings dialog has changed and offers new settings and web links to important MUTE sites. 2. now users can choose individual share, incoming, and hash directories – this allows users to share files from read only sources like CDs.. however… currently incoming files (once completed) will not be moved to the shared directory  3. [...]

Most people who use file-sharing networks are looking for music. Rich Vogel uses them to find photos, many of which were never meant to be shared with the world. One day while searching for new MP3 audio files, Mr. Vogel, a 31-year-old musician in Grand Rapids, Mich., browsed through a user’s shared folder on the [...]

What’s new in 0.403a     * Ensured download integrity     * Grouped search results     * Enhanced auto search     * Publish top requested files to kademlia     * Flicker free transfer and search frame http://www.revconnect.com/

Publisher’s Description: KaZaA Media Desktop offers you a total media experience. It is a second generation peer-to-peer file sharing service with which you can search and download media files from other KaZaA users. You can also organise and play/view your media files through an integrated media jukebox, publish your own work, reach an audience and [...]

Entertainment – AP Music   Some Online Music Providers Allow Sharing Thu Jul 29, 9:01 AM ET By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES – Free-for-all music sharing online has drawn the ire of the recording industry, but some commercial online music providers and even a few recording artists are opting to allow music [...]

Incoming freshmen at Duke will be getting a special gift from the university — an iPod.  Duke has agreed to purchase 1,800 iPods, usually used to store and play music, from Apple Computers Inc. The Duke-issued version, however, will include school-related information, including information for freshman orientation and the academic calendar. The university also will [...]

“ The Stargate SG-1 Information Archive is reporting that the Feds filed charges against Adam McGaughey, creator of SG1Archive.com. The website is a fan site for the television show Stargate SG-1. The charges allege that Adam used the website to engage in Criminal Copyright Infringement and Trafficking in Counterfeit Services. Two interesting things about the [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL – news) will make a slimmed-down version of its iTunes jukebox software that No. 2 cell phone maker Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT – news) will install on some wireless phones it will start selling in the first half of 2005, the companies said on Monday.  The world’s second-largest cell [...]

Copy protection software developer Macrovision is set to roll out an updated version of its CDS 300 system that it claims can beat attempts to bypass Windows’ auto-run feature but goes some way to balance that by allowing users to burn copies of the CD for personal use. CDS 300 was launched earlier this year [...]

VANCOUVER – The tranquil music that wafts through many dental offices to soothe patients and mask the sounds of the drill may soon be silenced. The music industry is putting the bite on dentists – demanding that they pay for the right to play it. The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, [...]

DISC DRIVE LEADER SEAGATE INTRODUCES 5-YEAR WARRANTY ON ALL INTERNAL COMPUTER HARD DRIVES SHIPPED IN DISTRIBUTION AND RETAIL CHANNELS World’s most reliable hard drives now feature industry’s best warranty protection SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—26 July 2004— Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s leading hard disc drive maker, today announced it has introduced a 5-year warranty, effective immediately, [...]

Search all the major file-sharing networks and connect with users of Kazaa, iMesh, eDonkey, Overnet, Grokster, Gnutella, LimeWire, G2, and others with Morpheus 4.0, the only American file-sharing software ruled legal by a U.S. federal court. Instead of searching just one network, search all major P2P networks at the same time, accessing millions of users [...]

I wasn’t at Thursday’s (22nd of July 2004) hearing of the Induce Act that changed so many minds. O­ne peculiar statement did catch my attention: “No threat to iPod from blanket P2P ban, says US”. Vermont’s top Democrat o­n the panel, Patrick Leahy, echoed Hatch’s comments. While everybody was hauling tar and feathers for Orrin [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – RealNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq:RNWK – news) on Monday took the wraps off of new software that will make downloads from its online music store compatible with any portable media player, including Apple Computer Inc.’s popular iPod.  The move could potentially allow users to take music from Real’s store and transfer it to [...]

ExoSee File Sharing ExoSee is a peer-to-peer filesharing program made to share files publicly and/or privately through a community oriented environment with other users.ExoSee is completely serverless, which means there is no central server, making it entirely user-direct, ExoSee is equip with its own multi-source xoc:// protocol, allowing users to post links via web for [...]

One of the inventors of the MP3 format is back with a new technology that he hopes will revolutionize audio, creating superrealistic sound for theaters, theme parks and eventually even living rooms. Karlheinz Brandenburg, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Technology, along with a team of co-developers, is in Los Angeles this week showing [...]

By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Sam Yagan’s critics call him a pirate, an illegal operator and an encourager of child pornography because of his free online file-swapping service.  Yagan begs to differ. He’s the president of New York-based MetaMachine, owner of eDonkey, where the latest music and movies are available at no charge. And all [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Street-corner peddlers of pirated compact discs sold more than 1 billion illegally copied CDs last year, turning a shady black-market trade into an estimated $4.5 billion industry, a new study said Thursday. More than one out of every three music compact discs bought by consumers in 2003 was pirated, according to global [...]