Outgoing Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) general manager, Michael Speck, said the raid was launched this afternoon at the offices of Swiftel Communications in the Western Australian capital’s central business district after federal magistrate Rolf Driver yesterday granted a civil search order. “We have identified Swiftel as an ISP which has adopted BitTorrent technology to [...]

BitTorrent, the popular file sharing program, has been spruced up with a new user interface and queuing features. Version 4.0 of Bram Cohen’s official BitTorrent client, the first major upgrade since 3.4.2 in Spring 2004, also remembers what users were doing before a restart. The feature allows users to more easily pick up where they [...]

Within weeks, the German software engineer Guido Ciburski is expected to release Cybersky-TV, a free peer-to-peer program for sharing live TV signals. Broadcasters have already been keeping an eye on Ciburski (and sueing him) since he developped a TV ad-blocker a few years ago. A German Pay-TV company has already taken legal action and managed [...]

Major Features: No AdWare or SpyWare! Windows Only (Mac & Linux coming soon) Bright & Lively, Easy to use Interface Searches millions of users Advanced downloading technology Additional Features: Multiple simultaneous searches Multiple simultaneous downloads Torrent-style parallel downloads Search & Download any type of file (audio, video, images, etc.) Integrated access to all your favorite [...]

-New network connection handling (untied from MSWindows) -New networking algorithms for connection retries, backoff, and # of connections to keep up -Added intelligence for dynamic IP robustness -Endian changes to encryption code for MacOSX port -Added wastesrv_admin tool for creating config files in unix -File scanning now follows symbolic links on unix -Various compiler warnings [...]

# 2005-03-07: 4.0.0 is now available. # Changes since the last stable release: # All new queue-based user interface # Many options are now modifiable from the interface, including upload rate # Lots of other interface improvements # Extra stats are visible, for those who like it # Remembers what it was doing across restarts [...]

By GUY DIXON Wednesday, March 9, 2005 – Page R1 An academic at McGill University has a simple plan to stop the plague of unauthorized music downloads on the Internet. But it entails changing the entire music industry as we know it, and Apple Computers, which may have the power to make the change, is [...]

From a LimeWire email: “Ben Edelman, a noted expert on Spyware, this week released a study comparing five leading file-sharing programs on Download.com: LimeWire, iMesh, Morpheus, eDonkey and Kazaa. Of the five programs, only LimeWire was found to have no bundled software: “One program in my sample is notable not for its inclusion of bundled [...]

“Buy free software here! It’s fast! Oh, and did I mention legal?”, boldy boasts a daring scammer in an attempt to make a quick buck from the uneducated masses who now flock online for a quick top 40 chart fix. Within the last year, dozens more P2P-themed scams have wormed their way onto the internet, [...]

An Arizona university student is believed to be the first person in the country to be convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally downloading music and movies from the Internet, prosecutors and activists say. University of Arizona student Parvin Dhaliwal pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies of intellectual property. [...]

The BBC is investigating how an episode of the new Doctor Who series ended up on the internet three weeks before the show is due to begin on BBC One. A show spokesperson said the leak was a “significant breach of copyright”. “We would urge viewers not to spoil their enjoyment and to wait for [...]

The online auction giant is working on a fix for the problem, and it hopes to distribute that fix among its Web pages in the next several days, a company representative said on Friday. The problem, described by the company as a “software bug,” could be exploited by criminals to create an actual eBay link [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Intel on Wednesday showed off its living room PC of the future–and it looks a lot like the Mac Mini. As part of a speech at the Intel Developer Forum here, Vice President Don MacDonald demonstrated several concept PCs, including the Sleek Concept Entertainment PC–a square, metallic-colored device that was immediately reminiscent of the [...]

The Russian Press Agency TASS reported last friday that the Prosecutor for Moscow’s South Western district has decided to not persue legal action against Allofmp3. The site may continue business as usual. The Russian version of the article can be viewed at http://bit.prime-tass.ru/news/show.asp?id=27137&ct=news An English translation is available at http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3faq.htm (right at the bottom) Looks like this [...]

Another Swiss-based eDonkey2000 link portal, Swissmule, which indexed an array of different media, in the form of text based hashes located on the eDonkey2000 network has been taken offline.A short message left on Swissmule’s home page, roughly translates to “Swissmule is down. The police took the harddisk”.Those who follow the file sharing scene will be [...]

This week in Arkansas, state Senator Shawn Womack authored a bill that would require shops that rent or sell M-rated games to display them at a height of at least 5 feet from the floor. The bill, introduced on March 3, would allow the Arkansas Department of Public Health to fine vendors up to $500 [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia — The assets of Sharman Networks, the maker of the Kazaa peer-to-peer software, have been frozen pending the outcome of a lawsuit brought against the software-maker by the recording industry. The personal assets of Sharman’s directors, including their homes, have also been frozen following the latest legal push. Australia’s Federal Court heard the [...]

The UK internet users, ranging from a student to a local councillor, have admitted putting up to 9,000 songs each on the web for other fans to download. “These settlements show we can and we will enforce the law,” the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said. The BPI has launched a second wave of cases, pursuing [...]

An pretty interesting read over at News.com with Mark Cuban, my favorite quote of the article: “Entertainment companies just feel that because P2P impacts their business in a way they can’t control, it’s better to make it illegal than adapt to the new technology.” He goes on: “By itself, the DMCA didn’t kill technological innovation. At [...]

Fanning’s company has developed a range of tools that allow songs to be identified as they’re traded online, and lets those trades be turned into sales. Labels see the technology as a potential way to turn anarchic peer-to-peer networks into profitable distribution tools equivalent to Apple Computer’s iTunes. The deal is the second for the [...]