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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 and [...]

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, on every [...]

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 off [...]

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 he wants [...]

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 trade [...]