Altnet claims to have a patent on P2P technology. Specifically, the patent deals with identifying files using “hashing,” which helps identify a file more quickly. On the basis of their patent the company filed a lawsuit in December against the RIAA and companies the organization used to track down and stop illegal P2P transfers. Altnet [...]

Streamload typically provides online storage space for a price, making it one of the few companies to survive in that business through the dot-com shakeout. However, it is increasingly competing with larger companies that offer online homes for digital photographs, and even the huge archive space provided by Google’s Gmail service. Company executives say the [...]

Radio broadcasters are considering technology and business models that may soon allow listeners to click, listen and buy the tunes they hear on their favorite radio stations. Top radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications, technology companies and burgeoning satellite radio companies are aiming to launch such services within 18 to 24 months, executives and analysts say. [...]

A pirate is one who robs or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognized sovereign nation. Pirates usually target other ships, but have also attacked targets on shore. These acts are known as piracy. Unlike the stereotypical pirate with cutlass and masthead sailing ship, today most pirates get about in speedboats wearing balaclavas [...]

The LimeWire 4.3.2 Beta is now available. PRO users can download it from their personal download page. Free users can download it from the LimeWire Beta Page.  - Fixed a problem with international characters. Previously, some search results would contain ‘block’ characters and saving these files on some operating systems would fail. This is now [...]

After all the expectancy, and a degree of hype, the very latest offerings from Apple arrived in the United Kingdom this morning. A handful of selected journalists were led to a briefing room above the computer maker’s flagship Regent Street store in London to be shown first iPod Shuffle and Mac mini to arrive in [...]

22-year-old Ryan Pitylak and his 40-year-old business partner Mark Trotter may have to fork out millions of dollars in damages if the latest suit by Texas Attorney Greg Abbott succeeds in nailing them. They are joined by technology giant Microsoft in suing the duo. Pitylak, a student of the University of Texas, is allegedly behind [...]

Big Music’s fake cops in Australia have been told by the Federal Court they can continue to rummage through ISP Comcen’s computers and servers after the company refused to let forensic investigators in on Thursday. The ‘examination’ is part of legal proceedings against mp3s4free.net and Comcen over alleged copyright infringements, says ZDNet Australia. Anthony Morris, [...]

A set of video files available on peer-to-peer networks is piggybacking on Microsoft’s antipiracy tools to trick viewers into downloading adware and spyware, security experts have warned. Spanish security company Panda Software warned earlier this week that several companies are apparently using Microsoft Media Player’s digital rights management (DRM) tool to fool people into downloading [...]

—————————————— BearShare 4.7.0 beta 52 —————————————— [AM] Fixed HTTP URI parser bug where only one parameter was being parsed [AM] Ultrapeers forward the Push Proxy file index to the firewalled Leaf [AM] Push Proxy Downloads include the file index [EH] FIXED Alt locs were not being added to downloads because URL ‘ ‘ was being [...]

Linux vendors Red Hat, Novell and Mandrakesoft on Wednesday released patches for several vulnerabilities, ranging from flaws that could allow denial-of-service attacks to buffer overflows. Five of the updates released were rated “highly critical” on Thursday by security information company Secunia. Red Hat released three of the updates, Novell’s SuSE one and Mandrakesoft one. SuSE [...]

This is an often heard question o­n file-sharing forums: Can’t we just host overseas and avoid all these legal squabbles? I’ve often been asked to help search for file-sharing legal safe haven. I’ve joined the discussions o­n whether to swarm, unite and fight the ‘Industry’ or just divide, run and hide until this whole thing [...]

Nicholas M. Ciarelli was not even old enough to shave when he started getting under Apple Computer Inc.’s skin. As a 13-year-old middle-schooler, the New Woodstock, N.Y., native built a Web site in 1998 and began publishing insider news and rumors about Apple, using the alias Nick dePlume. Three years later, ThinkSecret.com was first to [...]

California based BayTSP are mercenaries to Hollywood, hired for their technical expertise. They track files which infringe on copyrights, wherever they may appear online. Using the gathered information, they provide their clients with the opportunity to send DMCA take down notices to anyone taking part in the infringement. The information is also used by the [...]

NapShare V2.0a7 has been released. NapShare is a MUTE Network P2P client designed to protect your identity and privacy by using a virtual IP address plus routing packets through other nodes. It also encrypts connections to other nodes to prevent easy ISP or router sniffing that may be used to block it’s use. It’s a [...]

Napster is once again the target of an intellectual-property lawsuit, this time on the receiving end of a patent infringement claim from a small company called SightSound Technologies. SightSound, which holds several patents related to selling and downloading music and video online, on Monday asked a court to block Napster from selling music online while [...]

Locating video content on the web can be cumbersome and time-consuming, especially for the not-too-tech-savvy tinkerer. But a new application combining BitTorrent and RSS could make it easy for video fans to automatically locate files and download them to their computers. Sajeeth Cherian, a 20-year-old communications engineering student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, got [...]

(Slyck.com) – Since the closure of SuprNova late last year, torrents have been lacking a home. SuprNova was never feature rich, but it was simple and a central point for release groups to dump their Warez. No torrent sites have made a true bid to fill SuprNova’s huge shoes. Torrent search engines have served to [...]

2005 will be the key year for digital media. The reason is because the Supreme Court has announced it will take up the Grokster case on appeal from the record and movie industries. The decision from that case will define the parameters of copyright, fair use and the culpability of technology for many years to [...]

Apple announced its iWork ’05 productivity software suite as part of a cavalcade of products putting it on a collision course with Microsoft and its Office suite. Apple chief Steve Jobs announced iWork ’05 Tuesday at the Macworld trade show. The $79 package includes Pages, a new word processing program developed by Apple, and an [...]