Several high-profile technology companies and movie studios are expected to announce Wednesday that they have formed a coalition to ensure that high-definition video and other content cannot be pirated in home networks. Sources familiar with the group’s formation said the initial members include IBM, Intel, Sony, Microsoft, Warner Bros., Disney and Panasonic. The announcement is [...]

Anti-Consumer Subpoena Process Struck Down by Appeals Court December 19, 2003 Media contact:Maureen Flanagan, 202-515-2514 WASHINGTON – Verizon declared victory for consumer safety and privacy today when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia announced it has struck down a controversial lower-court ruling that had forced Internet service providers to reveal the [...]

Internet users download twice as many films, games and music as they did a year ago, despite a big crackdown on the activity, according to a study on Tuesday. Each day, the equivalent of roughly three billion songs or five million movies zips between computers, according to the study by Cambridge, England-based technology firm CacheLogic. [...]

Changelog from 0.9.5.67 beta2.0.0 Final (2004-07-09)- GUI: Country flag associated to the host are displayed left of IP addresses.- GUI: Adjusted Search tab colors to fit colors of the current look and feel and theme selection.- GUI: New language selection dialog will allow different user interface translations.- GUI: Splited Share tab into the two new [...]

The Canadian Record Industry Association on Monday appealed a court ruling in which a judge ruled that peer-to-peer file sharing was legal in Canada. Like its American counterparts, the Canadian group is trying to sue file-swappers who are trading copyrighted music online. But in March, a court blocked the label’s trade group from obtaining the [...]

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Saturday 10th July 2004 10:52 GMT Since its introduction almost two years ago, the fashionable and expensive iPod gadget has earned a reputation as a music hoard for selfish yuppies. But perhaps not for very much longer. Thanks to some ingenious Romanian entrepreneurs, it might actually start to be [...]

Shareaza Security Update v2.8.2 – 11-July-2004By CrashUKShareaza Security Update is a small add-on for Shareaza Security Core that adds Content Filters that Block Bogus and Virus Content and Blocks IP Ranges that Spam Fake Files…NEWS: The BAD HOSTS that Sending out Corrupt Chunks to Corrupt Downloads on G2 Network. Have got some more ip ranges [...]

The pointless Internet fad of blogging has been with us for a while. The blogging craze, used to bore complete strangers, has caused a scattering of redundant web pages and diaries which cover a maximum of two weeks. But blogs are being increasingly popularised by the latest fashion of MP3 blogging.MP3 blogs are used by [...]

Movie pirates buy fewer DVDs and attend fewer threater screenings, an industry-sponsored survey says. Story by: Tony Kontzer Despite the movie industry’s efforts to nip online piracy in the bud, the Motion Picture Association of America says its worst fears are coming true. People are illegally downloading more movies, and as a result they’re paying to view [...]

New Features: Core | Show built-in plugins in config view Core | Fallback encoding for torrents (a-zA-Z0-9 type encoding with hex chars for others) Core | Numbers now localized to selected language Core | More “polite” hash checking…doesn’t stress the cpu/system as much Core | Tracker seed retention limit added to limit tracker memory on [...]

An Australian man facing extradition to the United States over online-piracy charges will find it extremely difficult to defend himself should the U.S. efforts succeed, his lawyer asserts. Antony Townsden, a Legal Aid Commission lawyer representing Hew Raymond Griffiths, said his client would have a tough time finding legal representation and accessing materials if he [...]

Software manufacturers lost $29 billion to piracy in 2003, more than double the previous year’s losses, according to an industry survey released Wednesday. About 36 percent of software installations worldwide are pirated copies, the study by trade group Business Software Alliance and market researcher IDC showed. In dollar terms, the losses were greatest in Western [...]

Suggesting reports of the compact disc’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated, sales of music CDs are on the rise again. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Americans bought nearly 300,000 CDs in the first quarter, up 8.5 percent from a year earlier. The sales uptick, which actually began near the end of last year and has [...]

Computer audio equipment maker Creative Technology Ltd and online music service Soundbuzz.Com launched an alliance on Tuesday aimed at capturing Asia’s infant fee-based online music market. The two companies are setting up online music stores in Singapore, Hong Kong and India — regions where knock-off CDs burned by sophisticated piracy syndicates or downloaded off the [...]

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 [...]

Dear eMule users,You had to wait quite a long time for this release, though you’ll see that the time waiting was worth it. The highlights of the 0.43 series of eMule are: PeerCache. A technology developed by Joltid Ltd. which lets you download/upload files from ISP cache servers to reduce traffic and to improve download [...]

Latest News: July 2, 2004 Version 3.53 has been released. It features a major upgrade of the chat component and other minor improvements. What is WinMX? WinMX is a FREE file-sharing program like no other. It allows you to connect, download, and share files with MILLIONS of other users through the decentralized WinMX Peer Network. [...]

The LimeWire 4.1.1 Beta has been released. Pro users can download it from their personal download page. The free version is available at the LimeWire Beta Page.There is no Mac Classic release for LimeWire 4.1.LimeWire 4.1.1 is the first of a series of betas that will build up to the release of LimeWire 4.2. LimeWire [...]

The political firestorm surrounding filmmaker Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ has found its way into the file-sharing world. The controversial film–like virtually every new release–has been circulating online for days. Early in the week, anti-Moore Web site MooreWatch.com posted a link to a pirated version of the film available elsewhere on a file-sharing network, noting that [...]

The MPAA today announces Jack Valenti’s successor, one Dan Glickman, a former Congressman from Kansas and former Secretary of Agriculture. Glickman will assume Valenti’s role as President and CEO of the trade organization September 1. Glickman had this to say: “As America’s most wanted export, the American movie is also a great source of economic [...]