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 [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

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 stated [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Steve Crocker who originally worked on the ARPAnet protocols, is now leading a D.C. research firm developing a secure p2p software. What makes this so interesting is that the software is a lot like Aimster was back in the day, only Shinkuro is much more advanced. The great thing about Shinkuro is that all traffic [...]

Changes for 0.4 – replaced DIYP2P at the top of the Program with P2PStorm – renamed Help to Forums – tab mode disabled, button mode enabled (should use less memory now) – template changes – i’ve replaced this anoying grey with a light blue What is P2PStorm? P2PStorm is a new Spy- and Adware Free [...]

Netscape pioneers Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen are back on the start-up scene, launching a TiVo-like online network for distributing and viewing public TV, radio and grassroots media. The free service, called the Open Media Network, is aimed initially at letting traditional public broadcasters and independent filmmakers distribute their work on the Net. But it [...]

A mother and father involved in a class action suit against Sharman Networks’ notorious Kazaa p2p application, may inadvertently be adding a powerful new weapon to the anti-p2p arsenals of the very organizations that are victimizing them. In February, Sally and Jim Wilson learned they were being sued by Big Music cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association [...]

In a decision sure to reverberate loudly throughout the international music industry, France’s Paris Court of Appeals has decided embedding digital rights management (DRM) software in DVDs is incompatible with an individual’s right to make copies for his/her private use. Now, Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal have one month to strip copy-protection technology from [...]

WASTE has been ported to the wxWigets library port compiled for the Linux platform, this client Features the full features of WASTE Client/Server for Windows and full protocol compatability, this should allow many users to begin enjoying the great functionality available in WASTE. Please go here to download this new version of WASTE: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82356&package_id=147272

I read this interesting article about digital cameras and they cover all the good digital camera companies in the field like Nikon, Canon ect. Its a good begginers read for digital photography. ~B.M It sure is convenient to divide the world into two camps. You know: you’re either with us or against us; you’re cool [...]

Two NYPD veterans are being investigated by Internal Affairs for allegedly accepting payoffs from the motion-picture industry to arrest vendors of pirated DVDs, law-enforcement sources told The Post. One officer, a sergeant on the force since 1992, has been transferred from the Staten Island Task Force to the 122nd Precinct pending the internal investigation. The [...]

New Worms are bound for the networks promting warnings from Anti Virus makers Vigilante virus writers have launched an offensive against file traders with the release of a worm that deletes MP3 files on infected PCs. The Nopir-B worm, which appears to have originated in France, poses on P2P networks as a program to make copies [...]

Morpheus 4.8.1 now integrates BitTorrent so users can find and download more digital-media files than ever simply by typing keywords. Morpheus uses next-generation Neonet technology to deliver more results and faster downloads for MP3 audio, video, movies, games, software, pictures, and documents and can find rare content others cannot. Morpheus searches the major file-sharing networks [...]