Courtney Love chickens out
Remember Courtney Love? Remember her lawsuit that she was determined to bring to trial? Remember how she was going to break the seven-year law and make life better for all artists?
Scratch that.
According to MTVNews, Courtney and Universal have reached a settlement, allowing Love to be released from her contract. Furthermore, the contract frees up [...]
WinMX How-To Guide
Searching For The Files You WantThe Search File List WindowTransfersThe Transfers File List WindowBrowsing A User’s FilesMaximising Your Download SpeedAvoiding Fake FilesHow Get More Search Results (The Networks button)Using WinMx with FirewallsUseful Links
WinMX – The second most popular file sharing program after Kazaa is an excellent second source of files. And the best program for [...]
Madster Removes its Own Lawyer
The RIAA and Madster have been involved in a long running case over copyright infringement on Madster’s network. Since the start of the case Madster have been represented by Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP. The same law firm that unsuccessfully defended Napster. The law firm has been working for free on the case since [...]
House could give Webcasters relief soon
In the waning days of the Congressional season, a bill will be deabted by the House of Representatives which would grant relief to small Webcasters affected by the controversial copyright fees set to take effect October 20.
The bill, the Relief for Small-Business Webcasters Bill (H.R. 5469), was introduced September 26th by Rep. James Sensenbrenner [...]
Music Cos to Pay $67.4 Million in Price-Fixing Case
“The five largest music companies and the three largest music retailers will pay $67.4 million in cash to settle a CD price fixing case launched by New York and Florida two years ago, State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Monday.”
“In August 2000, 43 U.S. states and commonwealths said an industry practice called “minimum advertised [...]
Congress debate Continues on P2P Piracy Prevention Act
More of those who are in favour and against the P2P Piracy Prevention Act have spoken in congress. The P2P Piracy Prevention Act would give copyright owners certain rights to hack P2P networks where their work has been found.
Howard Berman, who proposed the bill, said today “There have been some truly outrageous attacks,. I [...]
Grokster to be Bundled with Pop Up Killer!
In a surprise move, Grokster Ltd has announced that they will soon be bundling Grokster with a pop up Killer program called NoPop!™. Users of KaZaA and Grokster often comment on how annoying the pop up advertisments are so this marks a complete reversal on advertising strategy by Grokster. NoPOP! will kill pop up advertisments [...]
RetSpan to identifiy P2P users
I heard from a very well informed source that the French guys who created RetSpan (a polluting system for P2P networks) are about to announce publicly a major partnership that will enable them to identify and track any P2P user in the world.
They have signed agreements with Internet authorities in order to legally access worldwide [...]
Archos Introduces the Jukebox FM Recorder 20
As the name states the Jukebox FM Recorder 20 has an FM tuner and 20GB of storage capacity. The FM radio is particularly unique in that this is the first digital music player that we are aware of that can record from its own radio, a feature that makes the unit quite flexible if you [...]
New portable MP3 Player also recognized as drive
The new Nomad Muvo from Creative is a small MP3 player. However, unlike any other MP3 player, this one connects to the USB port and is recognized as a drive. This means that you just drag and drop your MP3 files to the recognized drive and that’s it; no need to have a special software [...]
