Weblisten.com bites the dust
Today the Spanish Music Service Weblisten was shut down after a court ruling by the Juzgado de lo Penal nš 3 in Madrid, Spain.
Weblisten.com now shows this message:
WARNING: This Website has been closed following the legal procedure at the Juzgado de lo Penal nš 3 of Madrid. For any claim, please contact us at: Weblisten, [...]
Sony BMG tests technology to limit CD burning
NEW YORK (Billboard) – As part of its mounting U.S. rollout of content-enhanced and copy-protected CDs, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is testing technology solutions that bar consumers from making additional copies of burned CD-R discs.
Since March the company has released at least 10 commercial titles — more than 1 million discs in total — featuring [...]
P2P Revolution Wants You!
P2P Revolution, a weeekly P2P spot on the Zeropaid Network Would like to Announce the setup of P2P revolutions call in line.
P2P Revolution is a P2P webcast covering exciting interviews and news from the P2P world. Hosted By Rick of the Zeropaid Community it debuted at the beggining of May.
Please Tune into P2P Revolution. Previous [...]
Security Problems During Yahoo Music Beta
Chapin Information Services (CIS) uncovered a flaw today in the Yahoo Music service that would allow users to download files without paying for them.
The new Music Unlimited Beta was opened to the public just two weeks ago. Free trials are available for seven days, and premium subscriptions are being offered for $4.99 per month. [...]
Music industry tailed Sharman boss
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Michael Speck told a Federal Court hearing on Tuesday that Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) had been "tailing" Nikki Hemming’s premises on a "continuous basis" for several months until 11am on 24 May.
The unit conducted the surveillance as part of its efforts to determine who controlled the [...]
TorrentSpy Enforces DMCA with Star Wars, Family Guy
TorrentSpy has been serving the BitTorrent community for a long while, and has swelled to over 100,000 torrents and over a million concurrent downloaders. (No numbers on how many of those are MPAA etc. spies)
In the wake of the EliteTorrents disaster, TorrentSpy has apparently been removing links from its search results. Some report that this [...]
TV Torrents Continue Unabated
Earlier this month, and right in time for Sweeps, the period each fall, winter, and spring when television ratings are accrued and studied and advertising rates are reset, the MPAA attacked the largest providers of Television torrents. BTEfnet.net was the largest and most popular of the six sites targeted. While this may have [...]
Intel quietly ships Pentium D with DRM
Microsoft and the entertainment industry’s holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel now embedding digital rights management within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chipset.
Officially launched worldwide on the May 26, the new offerings come DRM-enabled and will, at least in theory, allow [...]
New P2P Revolution Episode – The Zeropaid Interview
Rick is back again with another hard hitting P2P Revolution installment. This time he has an interview from one of the founders of this very site, Chris Hedgecock, as well as an interesting interview with a European perspective.
As always, Rick also brings you the latest in file sharing news, as well as some interesting guests.
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Sony PSP Movie Sales
When I reviewed the Sony PSP for its movie and music prowess I was stunned by the clarity of Spider-Man 2 as I viewed it on that unit’s small, but sharp, widescreen display. The movie was delivered on Sony’s Universal Media Disc (UMD), a new proprietary format that in several weeks Sony put into the [...]
