Optical technique promises terabyte disks
A novel method of optical data storage could soon be used to hold a terabyte of data on a disk the size of a normal DVD, say researchers at Imperial College London, UK.
They developed a type of disk that incorporates angled ridges within the pits in order to subtly alter the polarity of the light [...]
Morpheus 4.3
NEOnet technology related changes
Search results coming from Neo Network are much faster.
Roundtrips reduced and search optimized.
Improved results to show as they come in, rather than after all found results received. Improved stability of network
Multiple other fixes
XP Firewall Detection
At startup check if XP firewall is present and active and Morpheus is blocked [...]
Mark of Caine for file traders
p2pnet.net News Opinion:- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law Bill 1506 that will require California file traders to wear the Star of David sewn to their lapels.
If that comment seems offensive, then you have a sense of my reaction when I heard of the new state law that makes it a crime for [...]
3 Myths About the Recording Industry Debunked
When emotion drove stock-market prices to absurd new highs during the ’90s tech boom, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan famously said the financial markets were going through a period of “irrational exuberance.” The flip side of this is periods of groundless pessimism. Right now, the music industry is at the tail end of one of [...]
Conservative group savages anti-P2P bill
The nation’s oldest conservative group has become the latest and most vocal critic of an anti-file-swapping bill that foes say could target products like Apple Computer’s iPod.
The American Conservative Union (ACU), which holds influential Republican activists and former senators on its board of directors, is running newspaper and magazine advertisements that take a humorous jab [...]
Judge Strikes Down Anti-Bootleg Law
A federal judge Friday struck down a 1994 law banning the sale of bootleg recordings of live music, ruling the law unfairly grants “seemingly perpetual protection” to the original performances.
U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. dismissed a federal indictment of Jean Martignon, who runs a Manhattan mail-order and Internet business that sells bootleg recordings.
Baer found [...]
File Sharers can submit questions to the presidential candidates
“Senator Kerry and President Bush have agreed – in writing – to address your 12 greatest concerns through The New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate. We’re proud to give under-35 year olds their first-ever opportunity to choose the questions answered by the top presidential candidates. The candidates are officially paying attention. They’ll be giving you [...]
Ants P2P 0.3.7
Ants P2P is designed to protect the identities of its users by using a series of middleman nodes to transfer files from the source to destination. As additional security, transfers are Point-to-Point as well as EndPoint-to-EndPoint secured.
Change Log: (since 0.2.7)
Preferential connecting: The purpose of this is to cluster the broadband nodes in the center [...]
MPAA blunders big time Down-Under
What seems to be an embarrassing blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and warn of a possible breach of Australian law. Linux Australia president Pia Smith told Builder AU the MPAA had issued Linux Australia with a [...]
Call to legalise file-sharing with taxes
Pop piracy should be decriminalised and the music industry
should realise that efforts to stop illegal downloading are doomed, a conference
has been told.
Instead the music industry should embrace file-sharers, said
technology journalist and author Andrew Orlowski in a keynote speech at the
Interactive In The City conference being held in Manchester.
Mr Orlowski said the record labels should [...]
