Already at the forefront of issuing authorized “live bootlegs” of its shows, Pearl Jam will on Sept. 1 launch its own digital download store via its official Web site. Hours after their completion, full concerts from the group’s fall tour will be available for $9.99 as 192K MP3s, whose bit rate is almost 50 percent [...]

Hollywood studios filed a new round of lawsuits against file swappers on Thursday, for the first time using peer-to-peer companies’ own data to track down individuals accused of trading movies online. The Motion Picture Association of America said it filed 286 lawsuits against people around the United States based on information acquired from file-trading sites [...]

Google Talk is a lightweight Jabber-based instant messaging client with voice capabilities. Google Talk is easy and intuitive to use. All you need to make free calls is an Internet connection, a microphone, and a speaker. After you download Google Talk, sign in with your Gmail username and password. Invite your friends to download Google [...]

Google (GOOG) is planning to introduce its own instant messaging system, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday, marking the expansion by the Web search leader into text and voice communications. Citing unnamed sources “familiar with the service,” the Los Angeles Times said that Google’s instant messaging program would be called Google Talk and could be [...]

Here some fun news for you. Ever wanted to know how much UsenetServer transfered during the last weekend of July in which they opened a public test account? Well UsenetServer gave us some pretty cool statistics….

Remixed versions of Windows abound on file-sharing networks, supercharged with the latest security patches, tools and applications. Pirated copies of Microsoft’s operating system have existed as long as chintzy PC owners themselves. But now pirates are doing more than just cracking Windows — they claim to be improving it. There’s a lot of extra space [...]

Zeropaid is giving away a PlayStation Portable to the author that submits the best blog post over at FileSharingBlog.com.   Submissions will be rated by Zeropaid staff; article ranking will be based on quality, originality, amount of views and comments. A winner will be picked on Aug 31, 2005. Would you like to contribute to FileSharingBlog.com [...]

Warner Music Group is creating a new music-distribution mechanism that will rely on digital downloads instead of compact discs. Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music’s chairman and CEO, said Monday that the new mechanism will be called an “e-label,” in which artists will release music in clusters of three songs every few months rather than a [...]

Andrew Lack wasn’t like the other record label honchos, file-swapping maverick Wayne Rosso thought as he left Lack’s swank office in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper. That Lack, the chief executive of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, was even talking to Rosso showed he was more open-minded than most industry executives. That he was talking up the [...]

Playlouder is offering the first legal alternative with a comparable experience to the “peer to peer” file sharing sites often used to swap pirated tracks. Subscribers will be charged £26 a month for a high speed broadband internet connection, similar to the price charged by BT, with the added attraction of being able to share [...]

Heres the latest episode enjoy and leave some feedback http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44898 Rick

For a long time ShareTV reined as undisputed king of the TV scene on the ED2K network. Then they gave into mounting legal pressures, and stopped listing ed2k:// links on their mainpage or forums. They still survive as #motv, releasing shows in their IRC channel and updating the ShareTV data base on a regular basis. [...]

I hope those of you who heard the show friday live enjoyed it. Here is this weeks episode http://www.ourmedia.org/node/44898  Check out RadioHaven.net for The P2P Revolution LIVE 3pm Eastern every Friday Subscribe to our MRSS Feed and recieve all our media uploads in your pefered news reader or website. http://www.ourmedia.org/mediarss/user/33744 Rick

In the latest public relations strike in the war on copyright infringement, the music and film industries are sowing fears that content piracy, like drug trafficking before it, is being taken over by organized crime syndicates. The problem is that the evidence — so far, at least — is lacking. The mob-piracy meme began spreading [...]

DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter quickly became the “must have” software of the DVD burning generation. DVD Decrypter, with its DeCSS engine, worked hand in hand with DVD Shrink, especially for DV9 media. Since the most commonly used DVD media is DV5, this 4.7 Gig limit proved critical for those who wished to copy and [...]

If rock ‘n’ roll is considered the traditional opening salvo announcing music as the line in the sand between kids and adults, file sharing has turned the battle into a war. Since the late 1990s, peer-to-peer file sharing has become the hottest and most controversial way to obtain music and Recording Industry Association of America [...]

p2pnet.net News:- There’s a new, free anonymous p2p client in town. From BrainTech, it goes by the name of Scatterbrain, it has no adware or spyware, and here’s what it can do: * Allow customers, employees, or other groups of internet users to give anonymous feedback and ask questions about sensitive topics. * Create small-to-medium-sized, [...]

A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. “This is total, total chaos,” said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost [...]

Imagine if your next Mac cost you only $300, and ran faster than any G4 or G5 you’ve ever used. That future may already be unfolding: Hackers have found a way to bypass a chip designed to prevent the Mac OS from running on non-Apple PCs, which are often cheaper than Macs. Some of the [...]

Patricia Santangelo is in many ways the embodiment of the suburban mom. She is the mother of five children, ranging in age from 6 to 19. She is divorced, living in Wappingers Falls after growing up in Yorktown and Putnam County. At 42, she works as a property manager for a real estate company and [...]