WASHINGTON – A second U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday that the recording industry can’t force Internet providers to identify music downloaders (uploaders)under a disputed copyright law. The decision doesn’t significantly affect the industry’s continuing campaign to sue Internet users. The 2-1 ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news – web sites) for the [...]

Released:  January 4, 2005Publisher: SoftgapHomepage:  AresLicense:  FreewareScreenshot Publisher’s Description:Ares is a peer to peer file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. You may now easily publish your files through the Ares Network. As a member of the network, you can also search and download [...]

The number of people logged on to p2p file sharing networks simultaneously grew to nearly 10 million in April 2004, a 30% increase from the same period a year earlier, says an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study. The US accounts for more half the total the world’s file-sharers, followed by Germany (10.2%), [...]

AMD today announced availability of the AMD Alchemy(TM) Au1200(TM) processor, a low-power, high-performance, system-on-chip solution designed to provide living-room quality video entertainment for consumers on the go. The Au1200 processor has been optimized for personal media players (PMP) and enables a new generation of conveniences and features, including scalable DVD-quality displays, effortless video content transfers [...]

The first day of the New Year marks the fourth update of Woody, otherwise known as Debian GNU/Linux 3.0. And perhaps appropriately, given the security problems which plagued 2004, it mainly adds security revisions to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems Read the article @ P2Pnet News Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org

It has been a full year since I last looked at a handful of video codecs and how they are suited for typical DVD backup scenarios. We’ve seen a lot of activity in the codec market in 2004: For one, there are now several H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC (referred to as AVC henceforth) encoders available. [...]

A man in the Uk was arrested this week over allegations he had sent false death notices to families appealing to get information about thier loved ones. These e-mails were sent to people who placed appeals for information on the Sky News website,” says The UK Times. The e-mails, which claimed to be from the [...]

In not-too-secret online forums, Wesley Snipes’ latest movie, “Blade: Trinity,” is the subject of intense discussion and evaluation. But unlike typical movie fan sites, the chatter from visitors to Web sites like VCDQuality.com doesn’t key on the vampire film’s plot, acting or bloody visual effects. Instead, computer users dish out praise or criticism on the [...]

Loki Torrent, once hailed as Suprnova’s Sister Site has filled in a gap left by the Universal BT Source. Lokitorrent is a BT indexing site for the Bittorrent protocol and is also one of the most popular beside a few others left in the wake of the MPAA. Zeropaid has been granted an interview with [...]

A time for resolutions, a time to repeat the same resolutions you made last year except you mean it this time, no really. I truly hope you all had a great new year but also in reflection of some peoples who have fell on hard times recently. Hope you and yours had a safe good time On [...]

The District Court of Munich has ordered Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding) BV to pay a copyright levy on new PCs. The landmark decision, announced on Thursday, ends a nearly two-year dispute between the largely Germany-based computer maker and the country’s VG Wort rights society, which has sought compensation for digital copying. VG Wort had filed [...]