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Apr 30 2005

RIAA Files 10,000 Lawsuits Against Their Customers

RIAAWatch is reporting that the RIAA has just sued 725 more file sharers, bringing their total to over 10,000 customers sued. Here is what they said:
Making up for March’s skipped litigation, the RIAA filed a second round of April lawsuits this week against 725 file sharers for copyright infringement. Perhaps answering my question from earlier [...]

Apr 30 2005

Tax this iPod?

A Netherlands proposed tax on MP3 players could devastate sales of hard disk players, and set up international waves over copyright legislation.
The tax is being proposed by the Stichting Thuiskopie foundation, and is set to become law in the Netherlands in a few short months unless the European Commission finds a reason to intervene. It [...]

Apr 30 2005

Wal-Mart Unveils Customized Music CDs

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is now offering customized music CDs for its online customers. The world’s largest retailer launched the new service Tuesday.
Like other companies, the Bentonville-based Wal-Mart already offers customers music they can download at their home computers for a fee. Customers with the proper technology can burn those songs to a CD.
Now, customers can [...]

Apr 29 2005

‘Piracy’ isn’t a priority

Speaking to an invited group of high school students at UCLA yesterday, US attorney general Alberto Gonzalez sent a message to the MPAA, and to Hollywood as a whole.

When it comes to “internet piracy” and intellectual property theft, the US Department of Justice has “bigger fish to fry”, such as combating terrorism, he [...]

Apr 29 2005

NapShare V2.2.3 – Anonymous P2P

NapShare V2.2.3 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 downloads through other nodes. It encrypts connections to other nodes to prevent easy ISP or router sniffing that may be used to block it’s use.

It’s also a fully [...]

Apr 28 2005

Bush OKs Smut-Stripping Tech

President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at helping parents keep their children from seeing sex scenes, violence and foul language in movie DVDs.
The bill gives legal protections to the fledgling filtering technology that helps parents automatically skip or mute sections of commercial movie DVDs. Bush signed it privately and without comment, White House [...]

Apr 27 2005

Judge: Schools don’t have to help music industry group

A federal magistrate has ruled that two North Carolina universities do not have to reveal the identities of two students accused of sharing copyrighted music on the Internet.

The music industry trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, filed subpoenas in November 2003 asking for help identifying a North Carolina State University student who used [...]

Apr 27 2005

Bush signs law targeting P2P pirates

File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a bill that President Bush signed into law on Wednesday.
The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, approved by the House of Representatives last Tuesday, represents the entertainment industry’s latest attempt to thwart rampant [...]

Apr 27 2005

BitComet Beta 426

BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed [...]

Apr 27 2005

BitTorrent 4.0.1

The most popular P2P application of current times on its original form.
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol designed to transfer files. Users connect directly to send and receive portions of a file, while a central tracker coordinates the action of all peers and manages connections without knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed. With [...]



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