Sony is to make a second attempt to challenge Apple’s lead in the digital music download market and the Mac maker’s almost-ubiquitous iPod courtesy of the PlayStation Portable. According to a Marketing magazine report, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) plans to launch a music service specifically for the PSP, which is expected to arrive in [...]

A Russian security company claims it found a way to beat a security measure in Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update aimed at securing customers’ PCs. The SP2 measure, known as Data Execution Protection, is intended to prevent would-be attackers from inserting rogue code into a PC’s memory and tricking Windows into [...]

An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data connections this year. The committee, deeply involved in writing U.S. tax laws, unexpectedly said in a report Thursday that the 3 percent telecommunications tax [...]

Eyes on the Prize is the documentary series that chronicles the American civil rights movement. But it can no longer be broadcast on TV, or released on DVD. Costly archival footage that appeared in the film was licensed for only a set number of years, and those licenses have mostly expired. The film’s production company, [...]

“P2P does not stand for ‘permission to pilfer.” ~ Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft The year is 2005, Broadband has started to finally reach a saturation point. In early 2004 an important milestone was reached, over 100,000,000 subscribers globally are wired through broadband access but as this includes residential and business subscriptions, the actual [...]

Publisher: Nir ArbelHomepage: SoulseekLicense: FreewareDownload Product Description:Soulseek is an ad-free, spyware-free file-sharing application dedicated predominantly to the free trade of electronic music and the promotion of unsigned artists. Search for and share all kinds of files, including MP3s. It also includes chat rooms, and it features a buddy list for your favorite users. The latest [...]

Publisher: Free PeersHomepage: BearShareLicense: AdwareScreenshotDownload Beta 60 Product Description: BearShare has implemented partial file sharing which enables users to get the files they want faster. This version also detects when users aren’t using their CPU and automatically boosts the power dedicated to downloading while the computer remains on. Bearshare lets you search for, download, and [...]

“Giesler said that instead of trading individual songs, users are starting to trade entire hard drives: giant libraries of music or movies.”

Lawsuits aren’t the only things just launched by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).It’s also released its new Movie Studio Piracy software to allow parents – or anyone else who gets hold of it – to scour computers looking for content to delete on behalf of the movie studios.It doesn’t seem possible they could [...]

In mid December 2004, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) began implementing its world wide campaign against BitTorrent and eDonkey2000 indexing sites. Most key sites such as Youceff Torrents, BuckTV, ShareConnector, Phoenix Torrents and SuprNova.org were eliminated. However, one site defied the MPAA and decided to stay and fight. The name of this site [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said Thursday that it had filed 717 new lawsuits against alleged file-swappers, including 68 unnamed people at universities. The suits come several days after the record label group filed its arguments with the Supreme Court in a case examining the broader legal liability of file-swapping software companies. Movie [...]

Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software, no spyware, no adware. It has simple interface, multi languages support, and iTunes integration. ChangeLog Fixed stability while checking corrupt download files. Fixed upload list lost bug. Fixed some minor bugs. Added automatic sorting device for query results. Improved search [...]

ComputersAndJunk.com has stumbled onto a listing on Sedo.com which lists Lokitorrent.com for sale. When users, and even the moderators of their IRC channels, were told of the find, the result was total shock. Lokitorrent is a BitTorrent tracking website which provides links to BitTorrent downloads. This site has become the biggest player in the torrent [...]

Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also made available a new free software tool so parents can scan their computers for file-swapping programs and for movie or music files which may be copyrighted. [...]

An often heard cry by Tech activist against legislation and court rulings in the US and EU: it’s stifling innovations! Since the DMCA, Induce Act, EU Software Patents Directive and Grokster case, this argument has been used with mixed success. Now, the ‘Industry’ is using this same argument too. But, who’s right?

By: Coty Cunningham (Zp Commentator, Independent Journalist) P2P, the reign of copyrighted and pirated materials, the “dilemma” that haunts the RIAA and agencies alike has stayed strong since the legal battles of Napster. People once said that file sharing would not last and that it was taking a turn for the worst, two statements that [...]

The entertainment industry yesterday unleashed its latest assault on Internet services that let people swap music and videos, enlisting an array of artists, state officials, academics and others to urge the U.S. Supreme Court (news – web sites) to crack down on companies that provide file-sharing tools. Trade associations representing the major movie and recording [...]

The nation’s fledgling copyrighted online music distributors may have reason to be excited after learning that over half of Taiwanese Internet users are willing to pay for legal downloads of online music, according to a survey released by online market research firm InsightXplorer yesterday. The survey, which polled 1,000 Internet users through its cyber panel [...]

The entertainment industry urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday afternoon not to give the companies developing peer-to-peer (P2P) music file swapping software a “perpetual free pass” to engage in “mind-boggling” copyright infringement. In a 67-page brief filed in advance of the March 29 Supreme Court oral arguments in MGM vs. Grokster, attorneys for the music [...]

The foundation run by Microsoft magnate Bill Gates has announced it is dedicating $750m (£400m) to a worldwide infant vaccination programme. Mr Gates said the donation would help save millions of children’s lives. “Supporting children’s immunisation is undoubtedly the best investment we’ve ever made,” he said in a statement. At the same time, it was [...]