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Nov 29 2004

Music industry lashes out at Kazaa trial

Kazaa is an “engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen,” an attorney for the music industry said during Monday’s start of the Australian trial against peer-to-peer software distributor Sharman Networks.
Attorney Tony Bannon told a federal court hearing, presided over by Justice Murray Wilcox, in Sydney that the 100 million people [...]

Nov 28 2004

Mute MFC 0.0.2 – Anoymous P2P

Mute is designed to protect the identities of its users by using a series of middleman nodes to transfer files from the source to destination.
Change Log:
 1. *** New DOWNLOAD QUEUE *** that will activelysearch for new sources for downloads after restartingthe application. The queue will also handle resuming of downloadsmuch better than in the [...]

Nov 28 2004

Kazaa heads to court for file-swap trial

Industry eyes are turning toward Oz as more than 50 lawyers begin waging a courtroom battle over Kazaa, the peer-to-peer technology owned by Australia-based Sharman Networks that touts some 60 million users worldwide.

The major record labels and 25 other North American, European and Australian record company “applicants” brought the federal court action in Sydney [...]

Nov 26 2004

KaZaA is #1 Spyware Threat on the Net

Peer-to-peer program Kazaa is the No. 1 spyware threat on the Internet, according to Computer Associates International.

Through its PestPatrol research, CA found that Kazaa posed a greater threat than other programs in its top five spyware list because of its widespread popularity. Kazaa claims that its software has been downloaded 214 million times.

CA gave [...]

Nov 26 2004

JETIANTS.tk 0.6.8.1. (off. pre-release)

JetiAnts.tk is a anonymous P2P filesharing and instant messenger 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 (ID´s) are used.
This keeps your IP adress [...]

Nov 24 2004

P2P start-up gets record label deals

A small peer-to-peer start-up has won rights from three of the four major record labels to distribute their music online.

The deals with Peer Impact, a new division of online marketing company Wurld Media, continues the labels’ gradual warming trend toward peer-to-peer services. Top label executives have increasingly said they are willing to support file-swapping networks, [...]

Nov 24 2004

Kazaa 3.0

http://www.kazaa.com/
Kazaa Offers Unlimited Free Internet Calls With Latest Software Release 3.0SYDNEY, 23 November 2004 – Sharman Networks Limited today launched Kazaa v3.0.
New Kazaa Version Includes “Skype”; Takes Peer-to-Peer Technology Beyond File Sharing to Free Online Calls
SYDNEY, 23 November 2004 – Sharman Networks Limited, distributor of the popular file sharing software, today launched Kazaa [...]

Nov 23 2004

Court Blocks Movie Studios Bulldozer Legal Strategy

Northern California – A federal judge in California has put a roadblock in front of the movie studios’ lawsuits targeting filesharers.

Last week, members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed 11 lawsuits against hundreds of people they accused of using file-sharing networks to share infringing copies of movies. They sued groups of [...]

Nov 23 2004

The RIAA vs Russian Music Services

While Russian Music Services like Allofmp3 and MP3Search are growing more popular every day, little or nothing is is heard from the RIAA or IFPI on this subject. Obviously, the RIAA is powerless in Russia, but they seem to have found a way to thwart Russian sites by lobbying at US companies. PayPal has blocked [...]

Nov 22 2004

File Sharing Growing Like a Weed

While the music industry attempts to shutter peer-to-peer services in court and in Congress, one company is using P2P networks to promote and pay artists.

Shared Media Licensing, based in Seattle, offers Weed, a software program that allows interested music fans to download a song and play it three times for free. They are prompted to [...]

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