UK band Muse (on Warner Bros sub label East West) has, with the record company, created a new marketing tool for legitimate CD buyers. Hoping to offer something p2p and the internet can’t they have created software to allow the buyer to remix the title track (“Butterflies and hurricanes”) on the PC. The software appears [...]

p2pnet.net News:- Microsoft says it’s now sharing source code for its Office 2003 productivity suite with governments and international organizations. Microsoft, under increasing pressure from open source products, is dressing the move up as a result of “positive feedback from governmental entities”. Its Government Shared Source (GSP) License for Office gives “qualifying” national governments and [...]

Sven Jaschan p2pnet.net News:- Sasser author Sven Jaschan has been hired as a programmer by German firewall security firm Securepoint, says UK anti-virus firm Sophos which in July claimed 70% of all virus infections in the first six months of 2004 could be linked to Jaschan. “Jaschan discussed the Netsky worms he was writing in [...]

Ahh-nold wants to terminate illegal and unsafe use of peer-to-peer file-swapping software in most California government agencies, including the University of California and California State University systems. According to this executive order, Gov. Schwarzenegger has directed the State Chief Information Officer to create a peer-to-peer policy for state agencies and departments. The order “shall not [...]

Why use the controversial name “Warez”? We use “Warez” for its recognition and marketability. . Since the start of the Internet boom, “warez” has been one of the top terms searched for on search engines. In the early 80′s, the word “warez” became the slang term for trading software among others via online bulletin board [...]

Shareaza is out with its first open source final. changelog since beta 2.0.5.0 Shareaza 2.1 Final # Fixed an issue with download sorting. (MogTheCat) # Fixed a bug occuring with recieving bad eD2k sources. (MogTheCat) # Fixed a bug where a paused download would begin downloading again. (MogTheCat) # Improved and cleaned download code. (MogTheCat) [...]

Last week, Microsoft posted a notice about a new kind of vulnerability in Windows machines. The MS04-028 announcement states that merely opening a JPEG image (one that had been tinkered with by a hacker, of course) could permit your computer to be taken over. We’ve seen this before (well, not exactly this)–a patch comes out, [...]

Microsoft is attempting to force a last-minute pact with record labels over the future of copy-protected CDs, according to a letter seen by MusicAlly. The allegedly leaked document is purportedly from Alain Levy and David Munns of EMI via Tom Silverman of Tommy Boy Records, who was asked “to reach out to the independent sector [...]

Microsoft is trying to get to know its pirates a little better. The software maker has launched a pilot program in which some visitors to the main Windows download page are being asked to let the software maker check to see whether their copy of the operating system is licensed. Visitors do not have to [...]

The threat of legal action and hefty fines has done little to stop internet users around the world trading music and video files, according to a new study of network traffic.The vast majority of shared files are copyrighted music or video, making the sharing illegal. In an effort to stamp out infringements, the Recording Industry [...]

Phex is an open-source, multiplatform, spyware-free Gnutella client. You can search for, download, and share all types of file formats. The program offers an automatic search functionality to find new download candidates and resumes downloads across different hosts. It is compatible with LimeWire, BearShare, Morpheus, and all other P2P Gnutella clients. Download phex_2.1.0.77.exe for Windows [...]

Recent Letter to FCC Strikes Out Against Fair Use for Internet Radio ST. LOUIS, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ — The following is being issued by Jambalaya Brands: As students all across America were getting ready to head back to school, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was busy beefing up its prolonged attack on consumer [...]

Spearheaded by anti-music industry group Downhill Battle, thousands are calling their local representatives in opposition to the “Induce Act”, as part of the “Save Betamax” campaign. The Induce Act, proposed by Senator Orrin Hatch, would hold technology companies liable for making products that “encourage” customers to infringe copyright. Opponents argue that the landmark Betamax decision [...]

I released Peer2Mail on the 13th and got a lot of feedback – thank you. Because I got so much feedback I added some features and fixed some bugs and released version 1.05.   This version includes:  Some important bug fixes. Set MAPI user name and password if your MAPI send fails. Enter MX record [...]

Yahoo Inc. is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch Inc. for $160 million in a deal designed to broaden the Internet giant’s appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the Web.  The all-cash acquisition, announced Tuesday, gives Sunnyvale-based Yahoo a major drawing card as it competes against the likes of Apple Computer [...]

Welcome to the world of legal online music ambiguity. Say hello to Grouper. Grouper – a temporarily stealth software project – has gone up for download and instantly created a confusing divide between the old world and the new. Unlike most P2P software that shares music and other files with world+dog, Grouper focuses on sharing [...]

Source: eMule Licence: FreewareScreenshotDownloadDear eMule users,eMule 0.44b is released now. This version mainly concentrates on bugfixes.As summary, the features of the 0.44 line of eMule have been: AICH: a new (additional) hashing system allows eMule to highly improve the corruption detection and handling, leading to less redownload in those cases Low ID support for the [...]

>> About Peer2MailPeer2Mail is the first software that let you store and share files on your web-mail account. If you have a web mail account with large storage space, you can use P2M to store files on it. Web-mail providers such as Gmail (Google Mail), Walla!, Yahoo and more, provide storage space that ranges from [...]

Features: # Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player # Audio formats supported “out-of-the-box”: WAV, VOC, Ogg Vorbis, MPC, MP2, MP3 # Audio formats supported through official addons: MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR & ZIP archives # [...]

On Friday IT managers got a fresh reason, if they needed one, to keep Kazaa and Grokster peer-to-peer software off users’ PCs: an unpatched security hole that affects both applications. A vulnerability in Altnet Download Manager (ADM) 4.x, installed with Grokster and Kazaa, could allow an attacker to take over a vulnerable PC via a [...]