Once again we see corporate pigs not preaching what the practice. “Five of the world’s biggest computer companies are trying to crack one of the CSIRO’s patents. (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation) The CSIRO developed groundbreaking technology in 1996 that allows computers to network with each other without cables. The technology is now built [...]

aMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the eDonkey computer network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client. It is a fork of the xMule sourcecode, which itself is a fork of the lMule project, which was the first attempt to bring the eMule client to Linux. It is now [...]

Slashdot reported this: “Mark Cuban is arguing over at Blog Maverick that with the introduction of Yahoo!’s new $5 per month music service that this needs to become the new de facto ‘damages’ that the RIAA ought to be able to claim when suing kids. After all, when the kids could have paid for the [...]

The BBC has made an announcement that may change the way we watch TV. They broadcasting company is making their television programs available for download over the Internet. The BBC is allowing the downloading of television shows as a 3-month trial to begin in September. The company will use its new Interactive Media Player (iMP) [...]

Many will have heard about the anonymous P2P-system Freenet. What many probably don’t know is, that a big change is at hand: the Freenet developers have decided to drop all support for the 0.5x version, to skip version 0.6 and to completely revamp the 0.7 build into some kind of poorly described, presumably scalable darknet. [...]

Bell Canada and Telus face a potential setback as The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission reject their bid to keep VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) unregulated. The ruling means that the leading Canadian phone companies will not be able to set their own pricing on on-line telephone services. Both telecommunications companies reacted negatively about the [...]

Dan Glickman notes a key difference between his old jobs as a politician and his new job representing the film industry. “Most people like movies,” he said. That’s not the only difference for the former Wichita congressman and U.S. secretary of agriculture. As president of the Motion Picture Association of America, he now reports to [...]

May 15th, 2004 somewhere in Estonia. A lone developer decided to try and work on a p2p client himself. Formerly having worked on other clients, such as aMule, LMule, xMule and Sharedeamon, he is no stranger to P2P. Now its time for something new. Hydranode strives to be a multi network application that runs on [...]

Morpheus 4.9 now integrates BitTorrent so users can find and download more digital-media files than ever before, 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 [...]

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Microsoft is developing a new version of Windows aimed at companies that want to better secure their older machines, the company confirmed Thursday. Code-named Eiger, the product is basically designed to turn older PCs into a thin client, which is a terminal that gets most of its information from a central server. Unlike traditional thin [...]

Don’t put your iPod through the washing machine. And if for some reason you do, don’t try to fix it with a screwdriver. That’s the advice of fire investigators probing a small explosion that burned a hole in the bed of a Melbourne teenager who tried to perform emergency surgery on his ailing mp3 player. [...]

The Freenet Project has been around since 2000. It was designed as a stealthy P2P network (some have called it a “darknet”) that distributes its content so broadly that it’s impossible to censor. There are a number of security features in Freenet that other P2P networks lack. Because data that the network’s various nodes exchange [...]

In a bid to redefine the computer security business, Microsoft said Thursday that it will market a consumer PC-tuneup subscription service with virus and spyware protection. “We believe this is a new übercategory called ‘PC help,’ ” Microsoft spokesman Ryan Hamlin says. Microsoft’s new service will put it in direct competition with security software giants [...]

Continuing its war on Internet file-swapping sites, the Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against a half-dozen hubs for TV show trading. The trade association said that piracy of TV programming is growing quickly online, and that shows are as important to protect as big-budget films. This is the [...]

Do you fancy £2,000 worth of Microsoft’s money to spend on film and video equipment? All you have to do is make a short film. Microsoft has launched the Thought Thieves short film competition, inviting film makers aged 14 and over to make a movie on the theme of ‘How intellectual property theft affects both [...]

Music fans were this week urged to update their iTunes software following the discovery of a serious security bug that creates a means for hackers to take over vulnerable systems. A bug in code used by iTunes 4.X to parse MPEG-4 files means that maliciously-crafted media files can crash vulnerable versions of the application. In [...]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple’s iPod player as unsustainable, he told a German newspaper. “As good as Apple may be, I don’t believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run,” he said [...]

Did you know the Big Music cartel’s RIAA owns the new dual disc technology? No? “The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced a newly-created program through which any record label can obtain a license for use of the logo for DualDisc, an innovative new product which combines music, film and video on a single, [...]

Firefox 1.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.0.4: * Several security fixes. * Fix to DHTML errors encountered at some web sites. For web developers, [...]