While surfing the net tonight I found a good story that will help explain this weeks news, check it out… “The Supreme Court’s decision Monday in the Grokster case might mean a lot to the movie, music and software industries, but how will it affect consumers? After all, it’s consumers who videotape their favorite shows [...]

Authorities in 11 countries, including Canada, carried out raids Wednesday that were aimed at stopping the illegal distribution of first-run movies and other copyrighted material over the internet. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as investigators around the world, took part in 90 searches that resulted in the arrests of four people. [...]

We all love Skype, right? Well in the spirit of democracy, free markets, and competition comes the first viable alternative, meet Gizmo. Gizmo is an open source internet phone for your desktop, just like Skype. You can call other Gizmo users for free, or use the CallOut service to call any phone anywhere for 1.8 [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America said Wednesday in the US it had filed a new round of lawsuits against 784 alleged file-swappers. The suits come just a few days after the group won a landmark Supreme Court victory, which will allow it to restart copyright infringement suits against peer-to-peer software companies, as well as [...]

AN JOSE, Calif. – A pair of Supreme Court rulings this week is stoking fears that the Internet is becoming an ever-more centralized platform for entrenched corporate interests — the antithesis of the digital commons envisioned by technophiles and civil libertarians. But others predict that innovation will actually be encouraged by the rulings, since they [...]

Some of our readers may remember the torrent site DVDR-Core. When groups like the MPAA started cracking down on torrent sites Alexander decided that it wasn’t worth it and stopped tracking torrents. The site remained as a hang out for old members and DVD lovers in general. All was well until one day in early [...]

For Immediate Release June 27, 2005 MORPHEUS STILL STANDING AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING StreamCast Networks Vows to Continue its Fight for Freedom to Innovate LOS ANGELES, CA – June 27th, 2005 – “We will continue our David vs. Goliath fight to prove that we operate 100% on the right side of the law. Once all [...]

The U.S. Congress appears reluctant to step into the long-simmering debate over file-swapping that received new fuel from a landmark court ruling on Monday. Key politicians from both major political parties said they were inclined to let the lawsuit, MGM v. Grokster, proceed through the court system before deciding whether to alter copyright law. On [...]

As many of our devoted users know the supreme court ruled in the grokster et al MGM case. I just got off the phone with Mike Weiss the CEO of Streamcast and recorded his comments for this weeks episode of the P2P Revolution Radio. I decided to release the interview and comments early because of [...]

A new revision to the popular bittorrent client Azureus has just been released. Changelog | Download | Homepage

Hollywood wins piracy battle The U.S. Supreme Court rules against Grokster in a closely watched piracy case. June 27, 2005: 10:38 AM EDT The U.S. Supreme Court handed the entertainment industry a crucial victory Monday in their titanic battle to curb Internet piracy. In MGM v. Grokster, the high court overturned a ruling that barred [...]

The Australian federal court has ruled two systems administrators from Internet service provider (ISP) Swiftel can be sued for alleged music piracy, overriding an earlier decision they were just carrying out their jobs. Swiftel has been accused of copyright infringement by major record labels — which claim the ISP’s employees and customers created a BitTorrent [...]

This Week on the Revolution! Come join un on this installment on the revolution. This week P2P Revolution feaures an interview with Sam Yagan President of MetaMachine. Also this week Rick talks to Fokissed who has been featured on previous episodes as a musical guest and don’t forget this weeks P2P stats. Stop by the [...]

Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working, a report suggests. Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft. The findings are unwelcome news for the games industry, which says it loses more than £2bn annually from piracy. The [...]

Brad over @ The Digital Music Weblog has done a nice little writeup on MashBoxx and Peer Impact, here are some choice excerpts: “Peer Impact targets a middle ground between a traditional download store like iTMS and a P2P environment; the half-million-track catalog is licensed and wrapped in the same sort of copy-protection that governs [...]

With the impending Supreme Court decision in MGM v Grokster expected tomorrow morning or Monday morning, we caught up with Michael Weiss, CEO StreamCast Networks, Inc., developers and distributors of Morpheus. We also interviewed Michael a few months back, he was kind enough to bring us up to speed on the court case and the [...]

A new service called Gnutelligence aims to do to the gnutella network what Google’s Adsense did for website publishers. Except in this case, Gnutelligence would be the only publisher. Basically they claim that they will return “relevant sponsored search results” based on a gnutella query. So you could be using LimeWire, BearShare, or any gnutella [...]

Now almost anyone can “speak iPodder”: iPodder 2.1 now supports 15 languages. iPodder’s accessibility has been extended with the addition of more than 15 languages and enhanced meta data for the visually impaired. Additionally, the foundation for one-click capabililty has been implemented, and support for feedmanagers like Podnova have been installed. This update also improves [...]

VideoLAN, commonly called VLC has emerged as one of the file sharing communities favorite media players. It allows users to play just about any format of video they might run across in the massive file sharing ocean. However they now have this grave message added to their website. The end draws near… VideoLAN is seriously [...]

Niklas Zennström, the internet entrepreneur behind both Kazaa and Skype, spoke to BBC Click Online about how his two inventions came about, and how broadband and wireless devices are shaping his vision for the future. There are few people in the world who can claim to have invented something that captured the imagination of hundreds [...]