This challange has been issued by GWREN himself !!! So What’s the contest? You simply have to build up an utility that automatically discovers the ID related to an IP running ANts! So if your appz can tell me the ID of an IP I choose ANts will be broken! Possible attacks could be node [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc’s iTunes remains the leader in paid digital music downloads, but the number of paying customers for this sector overall has decreased since April, research firm NPD said Tuesday. The Port Washington, New York-based market information company said the number of consumers paying for downloads fell to nearly one [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider whether recording-industry investigators may use a favorite tactic to find out who may be copying their songs over the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America had invoked a 1998 copyright law to force Internet providers like Verizon Communications to turn over the names of customers [...]

Hollywood studios and record companies on Friday asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a controversial series of recent court decisions that have kept file-swapping software legal. The decisions have been among the biggest setbacks for the entertainment industry in the past several years, as they have tried to quell the rampant exchange of [...]

A new experimental application by developer Bjarke Viksoe has been released that offers the ability to turn your 1GB Gmail account into an FTP-like file server. Gmail Drive takes the concept of GmailFS a step farther. While GmailFS operates on a Unix command-line interface, Gmail Drive’s ability to add a Gmail account as a drive [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill that would make it easier to sue online file-trading networks like Kazaa appeared on Friday to have died a quiet death, but other copyright bills sought by the entertainment industry continued to advance. The Senate Judiciary Committee declined late on Thursday to take up a bill that would hold liable [...]

Last Updated: Thursday, 7 October, 2004, 08:21GMT     CD sales have been in declineThe British music industry is set to announce its first wave of legal action against internet users who download music illegally. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is to announce it is targeting “major uploaders” – those who make music available to [...]

JETIANTSp2p for anonymopus filesharing BETA 041 RL 5.0 Antsp2p is a anonymous P2P filesharing application designed to protect the identity of its users by using a series of middle-nodes to transfer files from the source to destination. This means no direct IP to IP connection shows which files are available, only Virtual Adresses are used. [...]

StreamCast Networks has released Morpheus 4.5 with NEOnet, new technology it describes as “revolutionary’ and which it says delivers the most reliable search results and file accuracy currently available. “With NEOnet, users can find the needle and not just the haystack” says StreamCast ceo Michael Weiss. “Morpheus 4.5 is a genuine leap forward in advancing [...]

Tuesday, 5 October, 2004, 10:26 GMT 11:26 UK A sharing approach to copyright A new system for copyrighting artistic content has being launched in the UK. The man behind the Creative Commons idea, Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University law professor, explains how it works. Professor Lessig is the leading advocate of the Creative Commons What is [...]

LONDON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ — JetGroove, a new player in the on-line music market, launches its service today as the largest underground music provider. London-originated JetGroove (http://www.JetGroove.com ) is the first legal service for mp3 downloads offering the most diverse and largest selection of music made by independent record labels in one place. JetGroove’s collection [...]

Sony’s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years. Such CDs let users copy their music once for free onto a personal computer, but use the Internet to charge a fee for subsequent copying of the same disk. However, Sony Music Entertainment [...]

Encrypted password – now you can share your web-mail account password in a secure way. Just encrypt your password using P2M and share it with your friends. P2M will decrypt the password straight to the password input box, so your password stays secret. Note: Some web-mail providers like walla.com are not secure and show your [...]