After years of bitter battles between copyright holders and file-swapping services, the outlines of a partial truce are emerging that may soon see major record labels partner with peer-to-peer networks to create legal online music stores. At the center of the detente is Napster creator Shawn Fanning, whose new company, Snocap, has spent the last [...]

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) – The entertainment industry’s attempt to get Congress to approve a wide-ranging copyright law when it returns Tuesday for the lame-duck session has become a lot harder with groups opposed to the legislation uniting to win its defeat. Opponents of the legislation, from consumer electronics makers to fair-use advocates, contend that the [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) – Yahoo Inc. is more than doubling its limits on free e-mail storage in its latest move to combat two of its biggest rivals, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. E-mail accountholders will get up to 250 megabytes of free storage effective Monday, up from 100 megabytes previously offered by Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. The [...]

Music download networks are proving popular not just with an audience of youngsters keen to take advantage of free music but with advertisers equally keen to reach out to a captive audience. The debate over the legitimacy of file-sharing networks rages on as the music industry continues its threats to close the services down for [...]

PC Welt, the German computer magazine, claims that Microsoft has shipped its popular Windows Media Player with sound files that are edited with an illegal copy of SoundForge, a commercially available Sony program for manipulating audio. In one of the WAV files PC Welt discovered a reference to SoundForge 4.5 and a user called ‘Deepz0ne’, [...]

eMule 0.44c is released now, offering new and exciting features like: Advanced Intelligent Corruption Handling (AICH) has been even more improved with automatically detecting clients which sent corrupt data and eventually banning them. NTFS sparse files for more efficient use of free disk space for long time downloads of rare big files. The GUI has [...]

Ultramagnetic Vers. 0.85 A description of the Ultramagnetic project: Ultramagnetic adds encryption technology to AOL Instant Messenger and all the other Messengers like GAIM. This means that no one can spy on you while you’re talking about your secret crush, how horrible your new boss is, that embarrassing brush with an STD, your developing political [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America announced last week that it would begin filing copyright infringement lawsuits against illegal movie downloaders starting Nov. 16. With a tentative number of 250 suits to be filed across the nation, the MPAA is following in the footsteps of the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed lawsuits [...]

I woke up this morning and took a look around to see where things stand on P2P. Vietnam is going crack down harder on piracy, France affirms downloading is legal, RIAA is rebuffed by the Supreme Court and Dutch experts concluded that current IP laws don’t work. P2P: Where Do You Want To Get Sued [...]

Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire / Acquisition. It is freesoftware, no spyware. It has simple interface, multilanguage support, and filename translator. Cabos requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or lator, Windows 2000 or lator, Java 1.4.1 or lator. http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/

GAIM-Integrated Filesharing Jail for filesharers is ridiculous. We need to stop it.The lawsuits aren’t enough. The major record labels are literally trying to send people to prison for sharing music, and a new bill in Congress right now would let them. We can’t let that happen– it is a completely, utterly, unacceptable political tactic. We’ve [...]

The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but no further improvements to Winamp are expected. Winamp’s abandonment comes as [...]

Software Publisher’s Description  Morpheus 4.6 with NEOnet is next generation P2P using DHT technology. Version 4.6 adds compatibility with Win XP/SP2 and addresses freezing issues reported by some users. Files found on the Neo Network download faster and easier, even if that file exists on just one other computer. Morpheus searches other major file-sharing networks [...]

Students at a dozen colleges around the country are organizing to teach their peers about the consequences of overly broad copyright law, hoping to prevent creative freedom from being stifled. They are forming Free Culture groups on campuses to explain copyright law to fellow students. Stressing its importance for culture and society, the group says [...]

When he bought his 10-year-old a computer, Antonio Morrell was just trying to help the boy get ahead in school. Now the Miami construction worker is being sued by the music industry, which has brought its battle against Internet piracy to South Florida for the first time. More than a dozen record companies have sued [...]

After Gmailfs came Gmail Drive that utilized the 1Gig storage space. Gmail is not alone; Peer2Mail offers automatic downloading also from Walla (1Gig) and Yahoo (100Megs) so you can use these services as a simple and fast storage space. In addition to the storage space, Peer2Mail offer the ability to share the content of your [...]

Rest easy file-traders. The long, drawn out copyright wars are now over. No longer will you need to worry about the RIAA or the MPAA filing a lawsuit against your 83-year-old grandmother. No longer will you need to worry if Peer Guardian really works or is just a pile of binary fluff. RazorPop is here [...]

A disparate group made up of dozens of state attorneys general, labor unions, retailers, professional sports leagues and others urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to hear a claim brought by the recording and film industries against two Internet file-sharing firms. In legal briefs filed with the court, the petitioners stressed the justices should [...]

A new twist on file sharing is holding out the promise of allowing millions of people to share their song collections online, at no cost–and without legal risk. The trick involves marrying peer-to-peer technology with Internet radio. Using that combination, some companies are creating powerful tools that automatically broadcast people’s private playlists onto the Web. [...]

Almost as old as Napster, Gnutella has been part of the P2P community since April of 2000. Since that time, Gnutella has had its share of ups and downs. When Napster was wiped clean off the face of the Earth, hordes of users stampeded to the fledgling Gnutella network. The version available at the time [...]