Mar 31 2002

New version of the Qube

From the Author- I’ve read your bug reports and made efforts to fix the bugs that you have described. I am now giving you the first beta of the bug fixing series, 11.10. Please let me know if your bugs still exist and of any news or old bugs the are there, too, using [...]

Mar 30 2002

Dr. Fileshare’s Question of The Day 3/30/02

Welcome to Dr. Fileshare’s Question of the Day
This is a new service where I add the question of the day from the Dr. Fileshare forum and you can either learn from the question or try to solve it.
On 3-25-02 this post was posted in the Dr. Fileshare forum by Phlem Loagie:

Home / Zeropaid Spinfo [...]

Mar 30 2002

File Spree 1.7 Released

File Spree version 1.7 has been released. This version fixes the transfer list, error bugs, and more. New features include a queue, live queue stats, 6 new options, and OPs. This program continues to grow, so check it out. Grab it:
here.

Mar 29 2002

U.S. prepares to invade your hard drive

Written at the top of the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA): “The Congress finds: (1) The lack of high quality digital content continues to hinder consumer adoption of broadband Internet service and digital television products.” Now you tell me: (1) Does that sound like government intervention on behalf of the people our [...]

Mar 29 2002

Remember BMG’s interest in Napster?

Back when Napster’s legal troubles were just beginning, Napster’s president lured Bertelsmann AG (a.k.a, BMG) in as an investor to try and show the recording industry that labels could use Napster as a huge but cheap promotion tool. Today: BMG “has suspended talks to buy the rest of the once high-flying song-swap service pending the [...]

Mar 29 2002

Rep. Adam Schiff jumps on bandwagon

In “Another Punch for Copy Protection,” Wired.com is reporting that Rep. Adam Schiff has jumped on the copy-protection bandwagon started in the Senate. “A Democratic legislator from the home of the Walt Disney and Warner Bros. studios is drafting a bill to reduce online piracy by implanting strict copy controls in digital devices … his [...]

Mar 29 2002

The Qube Beta 11.7 Released

The creator of the Qube has released a new version of his software today.
From the author- Solves many crash and speed problems. Get it now to give The Qube the chance you couldn’t before because it wouldn’t startup, etc.
Grab it here
Zeropaid Note- The author of the Qube has requested that you [...]

Mar 29 2002

new eDonkey test version

Fixed since v59:
*stop multiple connections from the same node
*reduce pinging the servers
*fixed some buffer smashing problems
*insufficient disk space bug possibly fixed
*get server list command
*links now treat %20 as a space
*Able to stop connecting to list of servers.
since v1160:
* disconnect connect button weirdness
* added a new option
You can enter a URL to get [...]

Mar 28 2002

Dutch court OKs Kazaa’s software

Straight from News.Com “In a setback for efforts to halt copyright abuse, a Dutch appeals court on Thursday told a technology company it could distribute a software program that is designed to let people share music and films on the Internet.” Cool.

Mar 28 2002

Ebert, Gillmor on the Music Industry

From Slashdot.com: “Roger Ebert has weighed in with a scathing critique of the Universal Music Group and its new copy-protection scheme which renders CDs unplayable in non-Windows operating systems, DVD players, and CD-compatible game consoles. It’s nice to see the mainstream press start to come out against the idiotic copy-protection war the RIAA is [...]

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