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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 higher [...]

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 shut [...]

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 launched [...]

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 on [...]

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 CD [...]

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 as [...]