Will be a stand-alone website, offering DRM-free MP3s, which will also be accessible from links within the file-sharing software. Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store to offer paid digital downloads and monthly streaming subscription plans. To be called the “LimeWire Store,” [...]

European Commission’s “Safer Internet for Children” study details how children are aware of the risks of illegal file-sharing and how they justify it. The European Commission’s Directorate-General Information Society and Media has commissioned a qualitative study on the subject of “Safer Internet for Children.” This study covers 29 countries, the 27 Member States, as well [...]

Takes its battle with iTunes to another level beginning August 21st. It’s no secret that Universal Music Group and other record labels have long been chafing under the pricing reins that Steve Jobs has mandated in his Apple iTunes digital music download store, but now it seems the fight has evolved from a war of [...]

Starts taking steps to become an officially recognized political party. The Pirate Party of the United States has announced that it is currently trying to register itself as an officially recognized party in the state of Utah. The first step in the registration of the Pirate Party as a political body in the State of [...]

Apple iPhone hackers continue to try and get the most for their $600 gadget. I must admit I’m a bit jealous when it comes to the iPhone. It looks so sleek and clean looking that it makes all other mobile phones pale in comparison. Having said this, at $500 – $600 bucks a pop, I [...]

Points out that “Many computers can be connected to the Internet with identical IP addresses as long as they remain behind control points such as routers, firewalls, proxy servers, or similar technologies.” For all the RIAA’s usual mischief, like recent attempts to subpoena a guys former employer, and also amazingly to try and have him [...]

Terrestrial Radio still trying to convince the FCC that increasing consumer choice is really a bad thing. It used to be that a true monopoly in this country of ours was something everyone could easily point at and agree on. It had names like Standard Oil, or “Ma Bell, companies that ruled our lives with [...]

Also requires the defendant to provide the name and address of everyone who used his laptop over the last 3 years. The RIAA was granted a huge file-sharing victory last week when Judge P. Kevin Castel allowed the RIAA to take almost any and all means necessary to snoop into Yuri Shutovsky’s life in search [...]

Combined with the news that digital music sales are up 26%, the decision to offer DRM-free iTunes Plus downloads looks better and better. The long, slow, and painful decline in physical CD sales has made some of the record labels take heed and embrace the future of music that it is digital distribution, and none [...]

Old school favorite acquired by new school Swedes to take back the MPAA and RIAA’s biggest file-sharing victory to date. For those of you who don’t remember, Suprnova.org was a Slovenia-based BitTorrent tracker site that was started in late 2002 by Slovenian teen Andrej Preston, aka Sloncek, and in its prime was widely considered to [...]

"I’m all for copyright protection but I take issue with copyright extremism." Much has been discussed here about TorrentSpy and its long standing fight against the MPAA, but little has been mentioned about the lawyer fighting on its behalf and his motivation for doing so. Apparently well known for being "affordable creative and tough," Ira [...]

New survey says 43% have illegally downloaded music, and that social networking sites are an increasingly popular method of discovering new music. Entertainment Media Research, a London-based entertainment research consultancy serving film, music, broadcast and advertising industries in the UK, has released its 2007 Digital Media Survey which claims that the increasing popularity of social [...]

Official BitTorrent client gets a boost. Previous versions of the official BitTorrent client have always been lacking in one way or another, be it functionality or memory usage, but now it seems BitTorrent Inc. has used the acquisition of µTorrent to create a new client sever for itself that combines the best of both worlds. [...]

Says that it’s “destroying good music” and “stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.” In a story from the British tabloid newspaper “The Sun,” music legend Sir Elton John has posted comments online that call for the internet to be closed down. He apparently laments the way that the internet [...]

Starting tomorrow, 20 years of movie reviews will be searchable by movie title, director or actor. “At The Movies with Ebert & Roeper,” formerly “Siskel & Ebert at the Movies” until Gene Siskel passed away in 1999 and was replaced by Richard Roeper, has announced that starting tomorrow users will be abel to watch both [...]

“Networking and protocol expert” conducted an independent testing and analysis of the once popular BitTorrent client server to see if any of the accusations and rumors that got it banned in many cases are true. Robb Topolski is a self-described “networking and protocol expert” with more than 25 years of experience, and a person who [...]

Starting next month, will offer its top 10 movie and TV titles but, plans to eventually expand the service it to its entire video library. I and other shave frequently discussed here how free ad-supported video streaming is really the wave of the future, for it will act as an effective counterweight against piracy, being [...]