Despite well-publicized wins by piracy foes, illegal digital music and movie trading continues to flourish in underground havens.   Where has all the good illegal peer-to-peer action gone? Underground. In some cases, waaaaay underground. Fearful of reprisals from the major entertainment companies and worried about virus-laden, corrupted, or spoofed files, many users are shying away [...]

By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA – Forget finding an Internet cafe. For less than what it costs to build a small library, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world’s largest wireless Internet hot spot.  The ambitious plan, now under discussion, would involve placing thousands [...]

By Reed Stevenson SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. launched a new online store for music downloads on Wednesday, taking direct aim at Apple Computer Inc.’s popular iTunes music service.  MSN Music, which is aimed at luring more users to the world’s largest software maker’s online service, launched in beta, or test mode, offering songs for [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Blu-ray on Wednesday said Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT – news) has won the DVD technology group’s backing of a video compression standard for new high-definition discs, marking an advance for the software maker in an emerging consumer electronics arena.  Two consortia, Blu-ray and HD DVD, are competing to become the technology for [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment Inc. (Other OTC:AKLM – news) on Thursday said it filed for bankruptcy after failing to line up new financing for a credit line that expired last week.  The Glen Cove, New York, company, which publishes such games as “Combat Elite” and “Alias,” said it filed to [...]

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Ants P2P is designed to protect the identity of its users by using a series of middle-men nodes to transfer files from the source to destination. As additional security, transfers are Point to Point secured and EndPoint to EndPoint secured. Change Log: 1) The IRC client is now more compatible with other IRC clients. This [...]