Music Labels Look To Corral iPod
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 Unveils P2P Piracy Elimination Platform
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 [...]
BitTorrent creator reacts to Microsoft alternative
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 [...]
Canada Introduces DMCA-Style Copyright Law
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 does [...]
The Other Big Court Case
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++ 0.205
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 [...]
Burners’ Bummer
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” [...]
iPod Streaming via Skype
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 artist [...]
New Skype video add on
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 [...]
Coming to a hard disk near you
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 BitTorrent [...]
