AllofMP3.com is one of the top ‘legal’ download music services in the United Kingdom. AllofMP3 is a semi-legal Russian mp3-download service. They operate with no agreement from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) or any other lobbying group representing the major music labels. Russian laws do not actually apply to [...]

It’s commonplace for obscure new acts in music to make their work available for free using the many distribution mediums that exist on the Internet. Hatred of the traditional music industry has allowed a great deal of stories involving the above to seep into the media in the years since the rise and fall of [...]

PeerFactor, an IT french company, release Monday a revolutionary download system for webmasters. Theoricaly, it will be possible for webmasters to deliver 1 million videos (700Mo) within 10 minutes. And it will be free for them. To achieve their performance results, PeerFactor use a tiny (70Ko) P2P client and they organize downloads with RSS, mailing [...]

A frequent problem when it comes to BitTorrent downloading is of course the “where,” the “Where do I find stuff?” question. Well, it comes down to two categories, public and private. Public sites are those that do not have a defined or limited number of memberships, whereas private sites are those that do. I’ll go [...]

“The evidence that we are filing supports our claim that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the hands of the NSA wholesale, in violation of federal wiretapping laws and the Fourth Amendment,” said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. “More than just threatening individuals’ privacy, AT&T’s apparent choice to give the government secret, direct access to [...]

The Azureus-BitTorrent Client won the overall most popular open-source software award in SourceForge.net’s first annual Community Choice Awards, the developer collaboration site said Thursday. The winning projects in a variety of other categories were also announced at the LinuxWorld Expo this week. The finalists, which were taken from nearly 250,000 voters, included open source applications [...]

The RIAA has made quite the business out of shaking down folks they accuse of uploading music. This has been covered at length before, but they basically send a “settlement offer” with each lawsuit. The offer says (more or less) “pay $3500 and this goes away.” They also make it clear that just taking the [...]

The music industry has launched a fresh legal assault on people accused of illegal file-sharing. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is taking legal action against nearly 2,000 song-swappers in 10 countries.

The Freenet Project has just released the first alpha version of the much anticipated Freenet 0.7 branch. This is a major departure from past approaches to peer-to-peer network design, embracing a ‘scalable darknet’ architecture, where security is increased by allowing users to limit which other peers their peer will communicate with directly, rather than the [...]

There’s a lot to hate about Digital Rights Management (DRM.) The bulk of the bad has been chronicled here and elsewhere. Untold compatibility issues with MP3 players and car stereos are the most common complaints. Sony’s use of malware-enabling rootkits on their flavor of DRM made unprecedented waves in the media and even grabbed the [...]