Roxio said Monday that it will sell its consumer software division for $80 million and focus wholly on its Napster digital music business in the future. The company plans to officially change its name to Napster, taking the brand of the onetime file-swapping revolutionary that it purchased nearly two years ago. For the last nine [...]

Lavasoft currently distributes its anti Spyware applicationAd-Aware to over 80 million home and corporate users worldwide including 3000 partners in over120 countries.Lavasoft started distributing Ad-Aware in 1999. 1825 days have passed since Lavasoft released itsfirst anti Spyware application which has precipitated a wave of liberation that our users andcustomers have, and continue to, enjoy.NEW features [...]

Today Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Everybody wants it, but even Microsoft itself is limiting downloads to 2.5 million a day. So here’s another attempt at demonstrating–to Congress, the press, and the public at large–the usefulness of p2p networks for providing a public service. You can download SP2 via bittorrent here: sp2torrent.com [...]

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) — The Kansas attorney general has withheld more than 1,600 compact discs from distribution to state libraries because officials determined the albums promote violence or illegal activity, records show. The albums removed by Attorney General Phill Kline’s office were part of 51,000 discs given to Kansas as part of a nationwide [...]

MoodAmp beta 1.00 – The music revolution is here! MoodAmp is packed full of new and inovative features and is two generations ahead of any other music players… what are those features? Here’s the list…Mood profilingBy telling MoodAmp what mood you are in and rating the songs that are played you teach MoodAmp which songs [...]

Morpheus is a brand of peer-to-peer file sharing products that has been downloaded over one hundred million times all around the world. Morpheus is a communications tool that allows users to connect together with users of the Morpheus software as well as other peer-to-peer technologies to form a user network. Morpheus users may search for [...]

At the beginning of last month the British Government launched a “Music Manifesto” to promote music in schools. But already this typically Blairite bundle of good intentions is being hijacked (with not a little cooperation from the minders in Whitehall) in order to inflict copyright lessons on schoolchildren, from pre-school onwards. The launch itself produced [...]

P2P software companies have been told to clean up their act and do more to protect their users from the seedier side of the file-sharing scene – or risk facing legal action. The call comes from US attorneys general from 45 states, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands in an open letter [...]

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The LimeWire 4.1.3 Beta has been released. Pro users can download it from their personal download page. The free version is available at the LimeWire Beta PageChanges in 4.1.3 include:- Drag support! You can now drag items directly from the library, playlist or downloads onto the desktop or your favorite program!- Brand new icons for [...]

As eMule and eDonkey battle it out for supremacy in the eDonkey2000 community (a battle MetaMachine is struggling to reclaim), the ultimate victor is the end user. Similar to DirectConnect and the army of open source clones that followed, the eDonkey2000 community has benefited from the competition that has forced both sides to develop improved [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa — A pair of teenagers downloading songs by artists ranging from OutKast to Billy Joel through an Internet file-sharing service could cost their bewildered parents up to $4,000. Sandy Nauman, a registered nurse from Des Moines, and her husband, Richard, have been sued in federal court by the Recording Industry Association of [...]

BERLIN (AFP) – US software giant Microsoft is interested in buying Japanese video games group Nintendo (news – web sites), German magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported. Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates (news – web sites) told the weekly on the sidelines of a conference with analysts in the United States that he would immediately make an [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Electronics makers are enticing consumers to take Seinfeld on the subway with portable video players that look like an iPod crossed with a digital camera. Smaller than a Stephen King paperback thriller, these compact players have room for up to 80 hours of video — that’s all five seasons of “The Sopranos,” [...]

Audio Xtract Software Records Streaming Internet Radio Stations, Converts Files to Separate Songs With Artist and Title ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Millions of Americans have abandoned peer-to-peer music sharing in the past year, since the initiation of a series of lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against individuals suspected [...]

Australia will be required to adopt U.S. intellectual-property rules, including laws covering the “circumvention” of copy protection, and software patents that have alarmed advocates of open-source software, according to a trade agreement that President Bush signed on Tuesday. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard touted the agreement at a ceremony in the White House’s [...]

Although iTunes and Linux have been pursuing solo careers, one small software maker hopes to get them to make music together. CodeWeavers, which specializes in software that lets Windows programs run on Linux, said on Monday that it has a new version of its software that adds support for Apple Computer’s iTunes. The company said [...]

Just hours after eBay announced its new music download site, a handful of songs popped up for sale–a sure sign of intense interest in the company’s plans to take on iTunes and others. It was the wrong sign. The files had been posted by people who were not authorized to sell music in the six-month [...]

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Search all the major file-sharing networks and connect with users of Kazaa, iMesh, eDonkey, Overnet, Grokster, Gnutella, LimeWire, G2, and others with Morpheus 4.1, 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 [...]