Today the Spanish Music Service Weblisten was shut down after a court ruling by the Juzgado de lo Penal nº 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 nº 3 of Madrid. For any claim, please contact us [...]

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 — [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

TABLE 1 TABLE 2 TABLE 3    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 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 [...]

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 caused a [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Changes in this release Many, many improvements to the trackerless torrent code Partial French language translation thanks to Adrien Frey Adding information about trackerless operation in RACKERLESS.txt Support for torrent comment fields in the GUI Lots of little bug fixes Improvements to peer identification Improvements to btmaketorrentgui.py Proper fork() & exec() handling on *nix Improved [...]

Here at Zeropaid, we get a lot of new users to file sharing, so today while reading a dozen emails from people that can’t figure out how to log in to Zeropaid, i got this crazy idea to tell you all what my favorite p2p apps are. I will go over my top 5 picks, [...]

It’s a sad day as another well known BitTorrent/Edonkey site is shutting down. Come June 4th, 2005, ShareLive will close its doors once again. Since the beginning, this site has undergone multiple different transformations (Redesigns, etc.). Aside from that, it’s received numerous shut down requests, and has been threatened with legal action as well on [...]

The tantalising prospect of DVDs capable of holding almost a terabyte of data – or several hundred movies – has been presented in a patent issued to US storage company Iomega. The US patent describes a disc that could store 40 to 100 times more information that a conventional DVD, using more nanometre-scale sloped ridges [...]

PARIS — Record labels and movie studios are counting on the courts to help wage their war against global online piracy. But in France, some courts are refusing to go along. Judicial activism is roiling the entertainment industry here, as judges release convicted fileswappers with suspended sentences associated with otherwise draconian penalties stipulated by copyright [...]

Slashdot is reporting that Bram Cohen has launched the Official BitTorrent Search Engine. Here’s what Slashdot had to say: The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It’ll really be down after [...]

I would like to introduce you to Paul Martini, CEO of Phantom Technologies and creator of the iPhantom. Mr. Martini has agreed to sit down and talk about his new product. Here is a little about the iPhantom product iPhantom is a Internet security device for your PC that is portable and easy to use. [...]

Version 5.0.0 of both Bearshare and Bearshare Lite has been released. BearShare 5.0.0 is the latest version of our leading file sharing program. Intuitive design, millions of users, safety features and quick setup – what more could you ask for? How about Free exclusive BearShare music, real time help with common questions and Free tools! [...]

We have received a lot of emails this morning about EliteTorrents.org being shut down by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Their site is gone, replaced by a large red page with lots of givernment logos and some text stating: “THIS SITE HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND [...]

Downloading movies on the Internet is anything but new, however this avid film fan predicts that “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” will change the scene forever. I came to this conclusion when I saw a blurb about downloading the film on a CNN news report about the popularity of the movie. This will turn [...]