The approximate 300,000 people who’ve picked up a copy of the Backstreet Boys’ “Never Gone” might not know it, but they’re part of a growing skirmish between the record labels and digital music master Apple Computer. Both Sony BMG and EMI are rapidly increasing the number of copy-protected CDs they release in the U.S. CDs [...]

OmniMedia (AMOS) has partnered with Intent MediaWorks to launch its “Piracy Prevention Platform” – a state of the art encryption, tracking, and distribution system, built to stop the theft of music and films through the Internet. AMOS/INTENT announced it has developed and implemented the solution to the piracy problem; which the critical supreme-court ruling of [...]

In a posting on his blog, BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen speaks out against Microsoft’s claim that they have developed a P2P system that is 20-30% faster then production p2p protocols like BitTorrent. Avalanche is the name of Microsoft’s new distribution protocol, we talked about it last week here. Here is a link to Microsoft’s research [...]

From Slashdot: The Canadian government this afternoon kept one promise many could live without. It introduced new copyright legislation that will bring DMCA-style legislation to Canada (background (pdf) and FAQ (pdf) here but bill still not online). Professor Michael Geist has apparently seen a copy and points out on his blog that while the bill [...]

The eyes of the file sharing mass media are firmly locked on the Supreme Court this morning in anticipation of a possible ruling in the Grokster case. However that is not the only important court case taking place today. In St. Louis the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a case that could have [...]

PeerWeb DC++ is a Direct Connect client based on StrongDC++. It has been modified for our community’s personal preference and has additional features that StrongDC++ does not offer. If you have any suggestions or feedback on our PeerWeb DC++ client, then E-mail us. PeerWeb DC++ allows you to share files over the internet without restrictions [...]

Ben Freedland did two things that his fellow college students have been doing routinely for the past several years: First, he bought a new music CD by campus fave the Dave Matthews Band, then he tried to upload it onto his Apple iPod. But something was wrong. When Freedland, 20, first inserted the “Stand Up” [...]

Plastic Bugs has posted a program which allows iPod/OS X Tiger users to stream songs from their iPods hooked up to their computers to their mobile phones. You send a text message from your mobile phone to your POP email account. Your text message should contain the keywords of a song title (and possibly an [...]

Dialcom’s Spontania video plug-in is designed to be integrated with any 3rd party Internet-based communication solution. Dialcom selected Skype, the leading VoIP solution, as the first integration candidate. As a result of this, we are pleased to bring you Spontania video4skype, for free. Go and experience spontaneous high-quality video communication as easy as placing a [...]

The FBI doesn’t like it. The Department of Homeland Security is so concerned that it has closed down websites related to it. The Moving Picture Association of America is waging a war against it. And every day millions of people around the world use it to share music, TV programmes and movies. The “it” is [...]

This is some really interesting stuff, a group of grad students from the University of Texas is attempting to create the first streaming video feed using P2P technology. The group is based on Swarmcast P2P server from Onion Networks, technology similar to BitTorrent but with more features. Tom’s Hardware Guide has a really good article on [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a measure curtailing the federal government’s access to library and book shop records by a 238-187 vote on Wednesday. US Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont) sponsored an amendment to the House Justice Subcommittee appropriations bill. The amendment prevents the US Department of Justice (DoJ) from using appropriated funds to [...]

Researchers at Microsoft’s computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent. The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, [...]

Next Week! In Another installment of the revolution. P2P Revolution interviews Sam Yagan President of MetaMachine developers of Edonkey and Overnet. Also, rapper Fokissed is set for another performance and of course the weeks P2P stats. Got Questions for Sam Yagan? Stop by the  ZP Radio Forum and ask some questions and give your thoughts [...]

BitTorrent, the beloved file-sharing client and protocol that provides a way around bandwidth bottlenecks, has become the newest distribution vehicle for adware/spyware bundles. Public peer-to-peer networks have always been associated with adware program distributions, but BitTorrent, the program created by Bram Cohen to offer a new approach to sharing digital files, has managed to avoid [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the explosive idea of requiring Internet service providers to retain records of their customers’ online activities. Data retention rules could permit police to obtain records of e-mail chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity months after Internet providers ordinarily would have deleted the logs–that is, if logs [...]

aMule is a multiplatform ed2k client, fork of the eMule client, using the wxWidgets class library. It was originally forked from the xMule porject, which in turn was forked from the lMule project. This in turn was the first fork of eMule to run natively on Linux and other Unix-like systems. Changelog | Download | [...]

Upstart video technology company DivX released a new version of its digital video tools on Wednesday, claiming its quality matches or betters the latest rivals from Apple Computer or Microsoft. The new technology, the sixth full release from the small San Diego company, is aimed at boosting DivX’s role in the consumer market, and is [...]

Two Houston police officers were fired Tuesday after being accused of downloading nude photographs of a drunken driving suspect, Local 2 reported Tuesday in an exclusive story. Officer Christopher Green is accused of downloading nude pictures from the cell phone of a college student accused of driving while intoxicated. According to a search warrant for [...]

Napster is moving full speed ahead into the world of wireless through a newly signed deal with Ericsson. The companies are teaming to launch a Napster-branded mobile digital music service. The companies are combining their music strengths, namely the Napster brand and services with Ericsson’s existing personalized music service. The service will support coordinated downloading [...]