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An industry standards group has made a preliminary decision to include Microsoft’s video compression technology in a next-generation DVD format, giving the company a key boost in the digital media arena.
The steering committee for the DVD Forum on Friday announced provisional approval for Microsoft’s VC-9 and two other video technologies–H.264 and MPEG-2–as mandatory for [...]

A California appeals court on Friday reversed a 4-year-old order barring the publication of a DVD-cracking tool on the Internet, finding the injunction violated the defendant’s free speech rights.
The case was closely watched as a test of how much protection companies can expect in California for trade secrets that become widely distributed online.
The plaintiff, the [...]

According to Freenet’s web site, a new stable build of Freenet is now available. It includes a new load balancing mechanism called “rate limiting” which by almost all accounts is working much better than expected, and the network’s performance has already improved dramatically.

No other P2P network has as many clients as the Gnutella community. Several clients, such as LimeWire, Shareaza, Morpheus and BearShare have been among the more popular programs. Other, more obscure clients such as aBitCool, VPutella, and HelloWorld manage to float around among the nearly 30 different Gnutella iterations.
The improved crawler is an effort currently [...]

It seems that ftp://products.321studios.com/, maker of DVD duplicating software for windows, recently under pressure from the courts, was open (as of late yesterday) for anyone to download everything and anything. A final yah-boo-sucks to the courts, perhaps? By the time YOU read this message, the FTP server will surely be clogged or offline, but clean [...]

Myster Public Release 7.6 is out and can be found here:Public Release 7.6 brings the following advances to Myster:-Zipped files are now read for relevant contents and are shared appropriately-Many new server statistics-Optimized download information-Added AAC and and Mpeg 4 audio file support-Multisource Downloads are now resumable across quits, and re-launchesMyster Public Release 7.6 remains [...]

P2P United, an alliance that represents several commercial P2P operators, has delivered a letter to the RIAA, demanding that the recording industry lobby group proves its claims that the filtering technology RIAA demonstrated to the U.S. Congress actually works in live P2P environment. The technology, developed by a company called Audible Magic, was used when [...]

As ants marched with impunity through the Santa Cruz, Calif., home of the programmer, frustration turned to inspiration and Mute was born. The program, which seeks to hide the source of downloads by passing files between computers along twisting pathways, is gaining attention as an interesting solution to file swapping’s hottest problem: privacy. “If you’re [...]

The FBI said Thursday it is giving Hollywood film studios, music companies and software makers permission to use its name and logo on their DVDs, CDs and other digital media in hopes the labels will deter consumers from making illegal copies. FBI officials said the idea was conceived jointly by the agency’s cyber crime division [...]

Rapper Eminem’s music publisher is suing Apple Computer Inc., claiming the company used one of the hip-hop superstar’s songs in a television advertisement without permission. Eight Mile Style filed the copyright infringement suit late last week against Apple, Viacom Inc., its MTV subsidiary and the TBWA/Chiat/Day advertising agency.
At issue is an ad for Apple’s iTunes [...]