Yahoo on Tuesday said it plans to once again boost its free e-mail storage limit–this time to 1GB, the same amount offered by archrival Google. Beginning in late April, Yahoo will upgrade free users to the new storage limit of 1GB, up from its current 250MB. The company said it will take about two weeks [...]

EDIT: See that was pretty fast wasn’t it ~Bryan The release comes just a day after Apple blocked a previous version of the program, called PyMusique, in part by requiring all iTunes customers to use the latest version of Apple’s software. In a blog posting, Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen, who was previously responsible for releasing [...]

TV channel Five has said it will be the first UK broadcaster to offer parts of its shows for sale as legal downloads. From Monday, viewers of motoring show Fifth Gear can pay £1.50 for “DVD quality” downloads of car reviews. Legal music download sites have become hugely popular – but TV companies have so [...]

Apple Computer has closed a security hole that allowed an underground program to tap into its iTunes Music Store and purchase songs stripped of antipiracy protections. The PyMusique software, created by a trio of independent programmers online, emerged last week as a copy protection-free back door into the popular iTunes store. One of the creators [...]

Usually, Digital Slobs pay no attention to the Supreme Court. If it comes up in casual conversation, we typically zone out into stream-of-consciousness daydreams until we’re sharing Taco Supremes and a Supreme Pizza from Pizza Hut with Diana Ross and The Supremes. But not this month. Come March 29, anyone who shares files on the [...]

A trio of independent programmers has released new software that allows people to tap into Apple Computer’s iTunes music store and purchase songs free of any anticopying protections. Joined by Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer responsible for distributing DVD-cracking code in late 1999, the programmers say their “PyMusique” software is a “fair” interface for iTunes, [...]

Hatch, a Utah Republican, on Thursday was formally named chairman of the Senate Intellectual Property subcommittee. It’s responsible for overseeing the U.S. Copyright Office and drafting legislation and treaties relating to copyright and patent laws. A few years ago, Hatch was one of the more vocal Washington critics of the Recording Industry Association of America. [...]

What if every other time you brought a book home from the library, you opened it up and it turned out to be a pop-up advertisement for a local dry cleaner? Cornell University researchers are trying to clear file-swapping networks of this kind of disappointment, with a new program aimed at filtering spam out of [...]

Barely two weeks after settling cases against 23 file-sharers, British music industry watchdog British Phonographic Industry has sent forth a new crop of lawsuits. Britain’s High Court has provided the BPI with an order, which would force six ISPs to divulge the names and addresses of 31 individuals it claims are serious peer-to-peer uploaders. The [...]

Two men who were part of a huge network of internet software pirates, known as Drink Or Die, have been convicted at the Old Bailey. BBC News investigates how the network worked and what motivated those involved. They called themselves Drink Or Die (DOD). They were a network of computer buffs who derived pleasure from [...]

At least a million machines are under the control of hackers worldwide, said security experts in Germany, indicating that the bot and botnet problem is worse than anyone thought. Using only three computers as “honeypots,” machines deliberately left open to attack, thus attracting hackers and their bots so researchers can capture data on their actions, [...]

Digital videos are a great way to share memories, but they consume gobs of storage space, which makes it a challenge to share them. What do you do when your video is too large to fit in e-mail or even fit on a single DVD? The Web provides several storage alternatives. For instance, consider using [...]

For years now, consumers have repeatedly heard that copying artistic works basically equals stealing directly from the artists. But history may suggest otherwise. One need look no further than the infamous Betamax case, when major Hollywood studios filed suit against Sony, claiming that the ability to tape at home on VCRs was copyright infringement and [...]

SanDisk is working with a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to make storage cards which include digital rights management. The flash card maker will offer cards for use in mobile phones from the last quarter of this year. SanDisk cards will use NDS’s mVideoGuard Mobile DRM technology. This allows operators to control what people [...]

The Download of copyright protected music might be legal in Austria, as long as you don’t upload any protected files. Lawyers are not sure about the legal position, particularly with regard to “Right of a private copy” in the Austrian copyright act. So the IFPI trying to go to law might be nothing more than [...]

*Note:Not your usual front page headline but I felt it fell within Zp News standards as it is an interesting tech article and even could fall under privacy and security, it is only a matter of time before this is seen in North America.~Moneoa* Customers of a German supermarket chain will soon be able to [...]

Swedish Antipiracy Agency unmasked by hackers Press Release Sunday, March 13, 2005For immediate release Summary:Swedish Antipiracy Agency’s servers hacked by Swedish hacker collective. Name of traitor in recent raid against the Bahnhof ISP unveiled. 2005-03-13. Late on Sunday night the Swedish Antipiracy Agency’s servers was hacked again. This time with a clear purpose, to disclose [...]

By RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. – A California judge on Friday ruled that three independent online reporters may have to divulge confidential sources in a lawsuit brought by Apple Computer Inc., ruling that there are no legal protections for those who publish a company’s trade secrets. Apple sued 25 employees who [...]

  WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — One of the entertainment industry’s archest enemies operates from a small office suite on the second floor of a suburban strip mall here. The sign just above the Italian restaurant doesn’t give any clues about “free online music” or “file-sharing.” It simply says “Morpheus.” Morpheus. As in the little Internet [...]

Around a month ago, 10 servers hosting eDonkey2000 (ed2k) link sites were confiscated from an Austrian hosting centre.The Austrian anti-piracy association (VAP) were acting in cooperation with the German organisation that deals with copyright matters (GVU), and the Motion Picture Association (MPA).The admin of p2pworld reports on his site, that the provider has said that [...]