Send spam in Russia, get the axe!
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 [...]
XM and Samsung to Build First MP3-SAT
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 0.46c
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 bug [...]
Indie record labels seeing gold
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 paid [...]
BitTorrent to your Pocket PC with WinMobile Torrent
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 to [...]
Music file-sharing suits stun Kentuckians
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 listen to [...]
The P2P Revolution HUGE Annoucement
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. [...]
Bush creates high-level anti-piracy post
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 sales," [...]
Global music download stats spill beans on subscriptions
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 sold [...]
Overseas MP.3s
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 [...]
