Comcast, the top U.S. cable TV network operator, is being sued by a Seattle-area woman for disclosing her name and contact information, court records showed Thursday. In a lawsuit filed in King County, Wash., Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for [...]

RealNetworks, the industry leader in online music subscription services, announced today it will hold a press conference on April 26, 2005 to unveil a groundbreaking initiative in digital music. Later that evening, the company will sponsor a free concert featuring multi-platinum recording artists Good Charlotte at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. Ten years [...]

According to TeleGeography, a telecommunications research firm, international demand for bandwidth grew 42 percent in 2004, with the largest upswing in usage coming from Asian nations. Last year marked the second consecutive annual upswing in demand, the firm said, after carriers added 62 percent more capacity in 2003. “It really seems to be picking up [...]

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Michael Weiss, as interviewed by Chris Hedgecock via email for Zeropaid.com ZP: We have heard plenty in the news lately about MGM v Grokster, but the fact is there are many other parties involved in this case, on both sides. Can you give us an update on how the case has progressed since the summary [...]

The move is part of an ongoing attempt by Google to offer its information search services beyond the desktop PC, as wireless devices capable of connecting to the Internet continue to proliferate and the convenience of using them to tap into search engine indexes becomes apparent. Users whose mobile devices have a Web browser can [...]

As Spring is upon us in ’05 some things have become clear to me. 1)BT is not dead, it lives. 2)Lawsuits have had minimal effect on P2P Culture, many studies saying less people download are likely in most cases incorrect as people are more willing to lie knowing the stigma behind being in the culture. [...]

The upcoming ruling on copyright infringement in P-to-P networks will have important implications for future technology development. Although some people may not like it, copyright laws and regulations exist. Those who engage in mass copying and distribution of copyrighted works typically must pay licensing fees, or at least enter into an agreement with the owner [...]

Apple Computer said on Tuesday that the latest major update of its Mac OS X operating system, code-named Tiger, will be available on April 29. The Cupertino, California-based maker of Macintosh computers and iPod digital music players has long said that Tiger would be shipped by the first half of the year. The updated operating [...]

Record label and movie studio investigators said on Tuesday they plan to sue more than 400 college students who used a special high-speed network to copy songs and movies. Broadband networks made college campuses hotbeds of illegal copying, but students now use an even faster network known as Internet2, trade groups for the two industries [...]

More than 900 internet file-sharers were threatened with legal action on Tuesday as the global music industry stepped up its anti-piracy war.The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced it was launching 963 new actions in 11 countries in Europe and Asia. It brings the number of cases against internet users accused of illegally [...]

International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) (the record companies’ consortium) wants all ISP’s to sign up to a new “code of conduct” that it has helpfully drafted with the help of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).Under the new code, ISPs would put in place filtering technology to block services and/or sites that “are substantially dedicated [...]

Peer-to-peer networking has caused a dramatic increase in Internet traffic. Today, the major P2P user is the consumer, and the major application is media file sharing. Music, films and the like now are available to consumers using P2P technology. Depending on the analysis methodology, P2P networking accounts for 60 percent to 89 percent of all [...]

Changelog *** WARNING *** This version fixes a security bug, upgrade unless you want to risk losing data anywhere on your drive, this error affects all clients from 0.307 to date (thanks cologic for finding it) *** WARNING *** * Added stats window to autoopen (thanks paka) * Fixed context menu open for multi-screen setups [...]

As we have heard in the past few weeks Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has agreed to finance the Grokster case in defense from the entertainment industry. This will be a case that could influence copyright and tech legislation outside U.S borders. Zeropaid News caught up with Mark and had the fortune to ask him some [...]

He was once considered among the top 10 spammers in the world, using the Internet to peddle pornography and sham products and services like the “FedEx refunding processor,” prosecutors say. Convicted in the nation’s first felony case against illegal spamming, Jeremy Jaynes, 30, on Friday was sentenced to nine years in prison for bombarding Internet [...]

Hopes that Napster II may have been able to haul itself up by its boot-laces with its rent-an-mp3 scheme have been seriously dented by its first year-end figures. It’s reporting that only 410,000 people have subscribed. In the real world of online music, upwards of six million p2p music lovers are simultaneously online every minute [...]

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On Tuesday, April 12, Microsoft will turn off the blocking feature that has made it possible for some enterprises to block Windows XP Service Pack 2 downloads by employees who use Automatic Update. That means in companies that used the blocking tool, SP2 will be downloaded automatically to desktop computers that use Windows’ Automatic Update [...]

In what some of us have known for the last week, Suprnova forums has finally closed and merged with Snarf-it forums. While initally there were assumptions that Snarf it was engineered by the same group behind Suprnova and Suprnova forums, time and time again this connection was repeatedly downplayed to allow for Snarf it to [...]