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Jul 21 2005

Court nominee Roberts’ panel rejected P2P ruling

President Bush’s pick to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was part of the three-judge panel that threw out a section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would have given entertainment companies an expedited way to identify alleged copyright pirates on the Internet.
In a December 2003 ruling, Judge John Roberts joined two other appellate [...]

Jul 21 2005

Google map service covers lunar surface

Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google Inc. extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface.
Google Moon won’t give you driving directions or the nearest restaurants, the types of information available with Google Maps and Google Earth. But the [...]

Jul 20 2005

First Codec Agnostic Legal P2P Network

Wurld Media today announced its legal peer-to-peer (P2P) network, Peer Impact(TM), will now offer MP3s from leading independent music labels in addition to DRM protected content. Peer Impact, which offers protected content from all four major music labels, now becomes the first legal P2P and the first music service to offer digital content in a [...]

Jul 18 2005

LimeWire 4.9.4 beta

LimeWire brings you an updated interface, firewall to firewall transfers and increased performance for finding rare files and downloading speed.
LimeWire on ZeropaidDiscover what LimeWire is all about, plus if you are a member you can rate or comment on LimeWire.
4.9.4 (07.14.2005)—- Use theme colors in About LimeWire window.- More small Download bug fixes.4.9.3 (07.13.2005)—- [...]

Jul 18 2005

Video iPod May Arrive in September

Apple Computer recently held discussions with major recording companies, seeking to license music videos to sell through the company’s iTunes Music Store, according to a report in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
The talks are a possible prelude to a version of Apple’s hit iPod music player that plays video — a version [...]

Jul 18 2005

The P2P Revolution Episode 8 presented by Zeropaid

In this episode I deliver the news and make some annoucements about the future of the program. This episode and every episode of the P2P Revolution are availible for streaming or donwload at www.thep2prevolution.com

Jul 18 2005

iTunes downloads top 500 million mark

Music downloads from Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store topped 500 million, the company said Monday. Amy Greer of Lafayette, Ind., purchased Faith Hill’s “Mississippi Girl” as the 500 millionth song sold from the online music store.
The milestone download has won her 10 iPods, a gift card for 10,000 songs and an all-paid trip for [...]

Jul 18 2005

Open-source P2P projects keep swapping

The ripples of anxiety from last month’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on peer-to-peer software haven’t quite made it to Jonathan Nilson’s home in Tallahassee, Fla. Nilson, a programmer who has been working on peer-to-peer software called Shareaza for several years, says the loose band of developers who share responsibility for the open-source project haven’t been [...]

Jul 18 2005

File Sharing Still Growing

Statistics released by online media measurement company BigChampagne indicate that the average number of simultaneous, individual connections to file sharing networks has increased to around 9 million by June, 2005. This contrasts dramatically with an August, 2003 figure of just under 4 million users.
The eDonkey network is a good example of file-sharing platform that [...]

Jul 18 2005

Google’s Growth Prompts Privacy Concerns

Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.
Although many Internet users eagerly await each new technology from Google Inc., its rapid expansion is also [...]

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  • soulxtc: I think if the artist covering the song isnt being paid to perform it than neither should the person who wrote it....
  • World Anarchy: There was an excellent graphic someone posted once, clearly demonstrating the difference between theft, commercial copyr...
  • youngdand: It isn't even about paying artists, its about, making it as hard as possible for new talent to make it thus allowing man...
  • Corey K: I wonder if there will come a point where - if nobody if playing these covers (ie giving the big artists free promotion)...
  • mountain_rage: It isn't unreasonable if it was 1 license that covered all music, and proven that they actually played the music before ...
  • skillsss: Comcast Censoring Conservative Voices? The American Public and the FCC need to keep an eye on ISPs. Comcast has been ...
  • mountain_rage: That is the downside to the radio model, all artist are tied in, and can't choose to give away their music for free to e...
  • I.Jackson: It's not unreasonable to ask a venue that presents live music (or recorded music) to pay a fee. After all, they are usi...
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