Muse New Single with U-Myx – A Desperate attempt to boost single sales?
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 [...]
MS Office source code ’shared’
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 international organizations [...]
Sasser author hired
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 early [...]
Terminator targets P2P
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 prohibit…file-sharing programs [...]
Warez P2P Answers It’s Top 10 Questions
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 [...]
Shareaza 2.1
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)
# Search/Search more code neatened up and [...]
Microsoft hOle
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 Pushes Industry Standard Secure CD
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 [...]
Microsoft: Can we check your software license?
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 partipate [...]
Fines haven’t stopped filesharing
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 [...]
