Furthering its leadership as the premier provider of solutions that secure, manage, and extend instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, FaceTime today announced two major appointments to its executive team: Marcus Smith has been named CFO bringing over 19 years of top level financial executive experience at technology companies. Deric Moilliet has been appointed [...]

he world’s four biggest consumer electronics companies have agreed to start using a common method to protect digital music and video against piracy and illegal copying, they said on Thursday.” Japan’s Sony Corp and Panasonic-brand owner Matsushita Electric Industrial, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Dutch Philips Electronics formed the alliance because they want buyers of [...]

Most SuprNova and BitTorrent fans are well aware of December 19, 2004. On that day SuprNova.org, the largest Torrent listing site voluntarily removed itself from the World Wide Web. SuprNova cited it did not wish to confront the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America.) However, SuprNova’s true intentions were to build anticipation for the release [...]

A British research firm says some of the most popular corporate download services are, “actively engaging in a form of guerilla slavery; using proprietary formats, closed system media players and proprietary portable devices”. Shelley Taylor & Associates’ Digital Downloading evaluates 38 digital download services from Europe and the US representing a cross-industry sample including: 15 [...]

Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet are still trying to come up with ways to make money out of their TrueNames DRM project. Their latest efforts look remarkably like a phishing exercise, almost akin to those Nigerian scams in which industrious scribes send out messages meant to hook the unwary into paying for, well, nothing. In [...]

Hollywood’s own Hollywood Reporter is carrying a story reporting another entertainment industry ‘victory’ springing from its continuing use of US law agencies as tax-payer funded enforcers. “The Justice Department on Tuesday notched its first-ever convictions for copyright piracy perpetrated on P2P networks as two suspects nabbed by the G-men in the department’s ‘Operation Digital Gridlock’ [...]

The snowman cometh – in the shape of the Big Four record label’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industries). The PR / faux police agency has a certain panache lacked by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), its brother agency in the US. The former has a brutal Mafia feel to it whereas the [...]

By:Coty Cunningham (Independant Journalist) So called ‘Trackers’ offer the international community a method of retrieving torrents from multiple sources around the globe and are becoming a major piracy threat in the eyes of the IRAA, MPAA and many agencies alike. But what is the difference between these ‘tracker’ sites such as Suprnova.org, now nonexistent and [...]

A bill introduced in California’s Legislature last week has raised the possibility of jail time for developers of file-swapping software who don’t stop trades of copyrighted movies and songs online. The proposal, introduced by Los Angeles Sen. Kevin Murray, takes direct aim at companies that distribute software such as Kazaa, eDonkey or Morpheus. If passed [...]

By nature, musicians are thieves. Nicking a bit of this song and a lick from that one, shaping their style on the riffs of those who came before, musicians are experts in the art of acquisition. Woody Guthrie knew this; he pinched melodies from Leadbelly – and let anybody pinch him in return. The Sex [...]

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Global sales of portable digital music players are expected to rise significantly this year, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of MP3 players said on Tuesday. “This market is booming rapidly and one of the reasons why MP3s are so popular is that they are becoming cheaper,” said Tommy Tsai, a product marketing manager [...]

Apple and Pepsi have teamed up to offer a new iTunes promotion, the second in as many years for the companies. The promotion, offering a one-in-three chance of winning, runs from January 31, 2005 to April 30, 2005 and will include free iTunes songs and a sweepstakes for approximately 1,700 iPod minis. The new promotion [...]

2002, ARIA claimed that “Internet piracy had … substantially affected the local market and was estimated to cost it $70 million a year.” 1 According to ARIA, much of these losses were due to Peer To Peer (“P2P”) file sharing. In 2003, ARIA said “Recorded music sales continued to be hit adversely by online and [...]

THE OPEN Source Development labs has denied a report that it, along with IBM and Intel, is re-writing the Linux kernel to avoid 27 Microsoft patents that the operation system supposedly breaks. A report in Linux Business Week had claimed that the re-write was part of a programme dubbed ‘Operation Open Gates’ and would go [...]

Hewlett-Packard hammered home its commitment to the Itanium 2 chips this week, announcing new mid- and high-end members of its Integrity family of servers with the Madison chip, along with new support for OpenVMS 8.2, Novell’s version of Linux, bundled virtualization software and, for the first time, a pay-per-use policy for server-based Windows. The refreshed [...]

The new chips, code-named Sonoma, are expected to enable more consumer-friendly systems that better support video, audio and games. When Centrino was first launched, it was targeted primarily at business users. “We are trying to take what we started with Centrino and continue to evolve it,” said Mooly Eden, vice president of Intel’s Mobile Platforms [...]

Story from http://www.dutchp2pforum.com/portal/portal.php This version will fix stuck transfer problem by balancing download capacity against upload capacity so that messeges are not droped. It works well. Remeber to set your correct IP in the settings Panel If you are firewalled, open default ports 4567 and 4568 Wait for peers to connect Search in the QUERY [...]

From it’s start as a gnutella portal, Zeropaid has made it’s mark in the file sharing world. With it’s large membership and it’s thriving forums Zeropaid has become an important first stop for many file sharers interested in joining the p2p culture. Today Zeropaid News was fortunate enough to catch up with Jorge Gonzalez Owner [...]

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside [...]

“Well, I really don’t know what to say guys. The tracker has to go down due to factors that are very much out of my control. This is a permanent situation. I have tried to find all possible solutions, but have not been able to work it out in a productive way. I would like [...]