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Feb 24 2005

Apple Buying TiVo?

TiVo Inc. shares jumped more than 17 percent on Wednesday, fueled by speculation that Apple Computer Inc. might make a try to buy the digital video recorder maker, analysts said.

“What we hear on the street is that Apple is interested in their business and that they are a takeout target,” said analyst Steven Kroll Jr. [...]

Feb 24 2005

LimeWire 4.6.0

Publisher: LimeWireHomepage: LimeWireLicense: AdwareScreenshotWindows DownloadMac OSX DownloadLinux Download
Publisher’s Description:LimeWire enables individuals to search for and share computer files with anyone on the Internet.It is compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol and can connect with anyone else running Gnutella-compatible software.
Changes in 4.6.0:Reduced message propogation delay to 0ms.Cleaned up borders around selections on lists and borders on [...]

Feb 23 2005

MFC_MUTE V0.0.3 – Anonymous P2P

MFC_MUTE is a Windows only 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.

MFC_MUTE is free to use and Open Source. It [...]

Feb 23 2005

Doonesbury takes a look at file sharing

Hmmm… Trudeau and the laughable kooks at Doonesbury are taking a look at file-sharing this week

Feb 23 2005

Courts question anti-piracy rule

The courts said the FCC should not decide how devices work The US broadcast regulator has been told by appeal judges it has “crossed the line” with an anti-piracy tag which stops programmes being copied. The “broadcast flag” is a small bit of data attached to US digital broadcasts. It tells devices that receive digital [...]

Feb 23 2005

Wayne Rosso vs. P2P Community

“The writing is on the wall for the future of P2P in the legislative process if not in the courts. Sooner or later everyone will have to accept that fact.” Wayne Rosso Have you heard of Mashboxx yet? If not a good place to start might be to read this story at Slyck.com about Mashboxx. [...]

Feb 22 2005

AllOfMP3.com facing criminal copyright infringement

A Russian digital-music site offering high-quality song downloads for just pennies apiece is the target of a criminal copyright investigation by the local police, recording industry groups said Tuesday.
AllofMP3.com has been operating for several years, asking consumers to pay just 2 cents per megabyte of downloads–usually between 4 cents and 10 cents per song. Alongside [...]

Feb 22 2005

High Tension Over Illegal Uses of BitTorrent and Other Technologies

In 2002, a young software programmer in Seattle named Bram Cohen solved a vexing Internet problem: how to get large computer files such as home movies or audio recordings of music concerts to travel rapidly across cyberspace.
Among the benefits of the invention, called BitTorrent, was that millions of users could quickly see lengthy amateur videos [...]

Feb 22 2005

Google’s toolbar sparks concern

Search engine firm Google has released a trial tool which is concerning some net users because it directs people to pre-selected commercial websites.
The AutoLink feature comes with Google’s latest toolbar and provides links in a webpage to Amazon.com if it finds a book’s ISBN number on the site.
It also links to Google’s map service, if [...]

Feb 22 2005

T-Mobile to probe Paris’ security breach

T-Mobile’s American arm has launched an investigation into how Paris Hilton’s address book made its way from her Sidekick PDA/phone onto the web.
The mobile-phone firm’s computer forensics team is on the case, and is considering all possibilities: “This includes the possibility that someone had access to one of Ms. Hilton’s devices and/or knew her account [...]

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