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The site is back online but it got hacked again, check it out http://www.riaa.org/storymain.htm the news is back the mp3 links r back, theres heavy bw currently, it myth go down soon

The RIAA have been involved in long running litigation against Mp3board.com. It is a gnutella based MP3 search engine. The case has now moved a step closer to trial with U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein of the Southern District of New York rejected summary judgment bids from the major music labels and MP3Board. The [...]

I stumbled upon this company page today, and thought you all should check it out. A software makers comments on P2P file sharing and IM services, and their software to prevent these “Rogue Protocols”.
““Rogue Protocols”, like those used by instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services, represent a serious, widespread and rapidly-growing threat [...]

After the submission of a recent article on soulseek in the program releases section, it got me thinking, I noticed all the replies, and the strong opinions that people had about soulseek. Soulseek is NOT for fans of mainstream stuff like Britney, Christina, Shakira, Ricky Martin, etc.

Soulseek is a different kind of [...]

Music industry to consumers: Bend over
The Compact Disc is too easy to rip, so the music industry wants us to switch to a new, smaller format that is encrypted. You won’t be able to make MP3’s from it. Oh, and it will cost even more than the overpriced CD’s that you are used to. That’ll [...]

“…A dozen consumer and privacy groups filed an amicus brief in federal court here arguing that the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) request for information about a Verizon Communications subscriber should be denied. Verizon has opposed the request on procedural grounds.
“The 30-page brief says the RIAA is relying on a portion of the controversial [...]

“It’s hard to say which side in the baseball labor dispute is doing a better job mucking it up for the rest of us–when it comes to pigheadedness and unvarnished greed, the owners and the players are giving each other a pretty good run for the money.
Watching professional baseball’s slow-motion self-destruction, I can’t help but [...]

NapTracK is a simple program that allows you to get live stats of all slavanap and opennap servers reporting to Napigatr, Displays the stats in table form. You can then export the servers to a file, or into WinMX directly. The program is free to use and does not contain ads and spyware.
Has [...]

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has a page explaining their current work on intellectual property and copyright law, especially Digital Rights Management. They are also asking for comments. In their own words, they are “eager to make this page a space for constructive contributions to the ongoing debate about copyright issues and [...]

Some excerpts from the Denver Post article:
Downloading that new Britney Spears hit from the Net may come at a cost that includes divulging personal bank account information, credit card numbers and even company secrets.
Millions of people, following the trend first set by Napster, use file-sharing websites not only to copy and download free music, [...]