The controversial presentation by researcher Michael Lynn regarding exploitation of known holes in Cisco’s router software has leaked onto the Internet. Copies of the 1.9MB PDF file have popped up on a number of websites, risking the kind of widespread and global dissemination that Cisco had sought to avoid. This week, Cisco first pressured Lynn’s [...]

In the face of rumors saying LimeWire is closing down, they are announcing the release of LimeWire 4.9: New York (July 29, 2005) Lime Wire LLC (www.limewire.com), the leading designer and developer of advanced P2P software, announced today the release of LimeWire 4.9. This latest version of LimeWire continues Lime Wire’s tradition of leaving its [...]

Toronto — The fight over a levy on IPods and other digital music devices ended Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter. That means there will be no levy applied to digital audio recorders such as Apple’s popular IPod and IPod Shuffle as well as other [...]

Written By: Bryan M. (Moneoa) When it was announced last week at the PlayStation Meeting 2005 it caused a buzz. Along with fixing some video playback problems and adding new functions to the unit itself the firmware would also install sony’s official browser in the eager hands of Japanese owners of the popular new handheld, [...]

poster by Julian @ FileSharingBlog.com As a professional computer programmer I get access to certain resources before most others. In this case it would be Microsoft™ Windows™ Vista™ aka “Longhorn”. Vista™ Beta 1 was released yesterday to MSDN subscribers in the form of a 2.42 GB iso image. I started downloading around 2PM EST, started [...]

p2pnet.net News- Open source p2p application LimeWire is undergoing changes which suggest owner Mark Gorton is on the verge of taking it offline, at the same time stopping sales and distribution. LimeWire was download.com’s most popular independent Windows file-sharing application in January, and was still Number One today (July 27) with Morpheus and Warez P2P [...]

WASHINGTON–Congress remains reluctant to rewrite copyright law in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on file-swapping–but Internet pornography on peer-to-peer networks is likely to be a legislative target this fall. At a hearing convened Thursday by the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said that she and a bipartisan group [...]

Okay here is the latest episode featuring me and Jorge. The big news is I have launched the Radio Haven Live Radio Network. We have scheduled a couple good live shows and have alot of prerecorded stuff ready. THE SHOW IS NOW AVAILBLE ON STREAMING AUDIO WWW.RADIOHAVEN.NET (SORRY WINAMP USERS ONLY FOR NOW) SHOW WILL [...]

US senator Orrin Hatch, scourge of file sharers could be out of a job in 2006 if fellow Republican Steve Urquhart gets his way. Urquhart, House of Representative member and party whip form the land of Utah, has announced he is running against Hatch as GOP candidate in 2006, and wants internet users to boost [...]

A British organization has discovered that illegal music downloaders spend much more on paid music downloads than strictly legal file-sharers do. The Leading Question, a digital music consumer research firm, says music pirates spent four-and-a-half times more for legal music downloads than average fans. "Music fans who break piracy laws are highly valuable customers," said [...]

That is what happened to notorious Russian spammer Vardan Kushnir, Kushnir died after suffering repeated blows to the head. Kushnir was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, after Kushnir’s alleged spamming reportedly brought retaliation and threats. Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre [...]

We have heard the rumors on the iPod Satellite. It now looks like XM will beat them to the punch. Today XM and Samsung announced in a joint press release that they will ship the first MP3 satellite radio portable by end of the year. The yet to be priced unit won’t be able to [...]

eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client. This version is mainly a security update for 2 severe issues: A security issue in zlib 1.2.2 was found, which is used by eMule and can at least be used to crash eMule. A second [...]

When Don Rose stood to speak Monday night to the 75 independent record label executives gathered at Los Angeles’ Knitting Factory club, he had almost an embarrassment of good news. Earlier that day, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had settled with Sony BMG Music Entertainment over charges of “payola”–essentially that the major label had [...]

  You can now download torrent files to your Pocket PC device with WinMobile Torrent, a BitTorrent client that runs on your Windows Mobile 2003/SE device and lets you leech or seed multiple torrents. You can even view the progress of each torrent and extract individual files before the torrent has finished downloading; sounds similar [...]

Late last month, Michael Brown received notice that the recording industry was suing him in federal court for allegedly trading copyrighted music illegally on the Internet. Brown, 56, sitting on his front porch in Clifton, says he didn’t do it. And for good reason. “I can’t understand someone sitting 2 feet from me,” much less [...]

Sorry for missing last weeks show but heres the big news. I will be launching a 24/7 LIVE webradio station called Revolution Radio. It will feature LIVE broadcasts of The P2P Revolution at 3PM edt every Friday Night with numerous replays throughout the week. Revolution Radio is looking for DJ’s in all genres of music. [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush has created a new senior-level position to fight global intellectual-property piracy and counterfeiting that cost American companies billions of dollars each year, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Friday. "Intellectual-property theft is a major problem around the world. We believe that it is costing U.S. businesses about $250 billion in lost [...]

Over the last few weeks, separate figures for the US and the UK have been published, and the IFPI numbers allow us to put them in a global context. Apple’s iTunes is the clear leader in the market. It recently announced that it had sold 500m downloads. In January this year, it said it had [...]

When the Supreme Court ruled against internet sites that enable peer-to-peer file-sharing last month, it did music downloaders a favor. As anyone who’s ever visited P2P sites like Grokster and Morpheus can attest, sound quality is maddeningly dodgy and the catalogue is hopelessly disorganized. The imminent shutdown of these sites should provide the kick in [...]