Deadheads rebel against Web crackdown
The band recently asked the operators of the popular Live Music Archive to make the concert recordings, a staple of Grateful Dead fandom, available only for listening online, the band’s spokesman, Dennis McNally, said Tuesday.
In the meantime, the files that previously had been freely downloaded were taken down from the site last week. [...]
LAMABOX – VCR-like box boasts P2P content at push of button
Called the LamaBox , the VCR-size player is "fully integrated with the Internet, including connection to the big peer-to-peer networks," according to the LamaBox Web site. This, the site says, lets users "choose from an impressive collection of audio and video. The latest movies and television shows, playable on your television at the press of [...]
Is P2P File Sharing Protected Under the European Convention On Human Rights?
This paper explores the extent to which the peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing of music is a form of communication protected from the restrictions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (U.K.) (CDPA) by the guarantee of free expression enshrined in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and incorporated into domestic law [...]
Report Concludes File-Sharing Still a Threat to Music Industry
Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple’s iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum.
Jupiter Research said file-sharers outnumbered those who paid [...]
Fiefox 1.5 Final Released
The latest and greatest from those crazy cats at Mozilla is available for download.
Havent come across a link that works for it yet, but if you scroll to "HELP/ DOWNLAD UPDATES" it should come up as it did for me to download.
UPDATE: HERES A LINK COURTESY OF SP00KY
SIP Thor combines SIP with P2P
SIP Thor , based on SIP and ENUM standards, is a sef-configurable network that provides the customer with scalability and survivability of its SIP communications.
Using P2P technology, it distributes a P2P Proxy/Registrar that acts a like a cluster of super-nodes in a pure P2P network.
After installation of the software and connection to the network, [...]
Taste for illegal tunes strong for Europe’s youth
Illegal downloads are still beating legal online music in Europe, analysts say.
According to a new report from analyst house JupiterResearch, consumers are three times more likely to get their digital music from illegal file-sharing networks than pay to download the tracks from online song shops such as iTunes and Napster, with 15 percent of consumers [...]
Producer uses ’secret code’ to fight piracy
Three days ago, during his visit to the city, Chinese superstar and action hero, Jackie Chan complained about the bane of piracy in the film industry all over the world.
On Friday, his lament was echoed by producer Firoz A Nadiadwala. "Piracy is a $ 8 billion industry," said Nadiadwala, adding, "It’s a menace [...]
Cybercrime Profits Outpace Drug Trafficking
One visit to the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Web site Get Linux or Windows Managed Hosting Services with Industry Leading Fanatical Support. offers an eye-opening glimpse into the world of cybercrime.
Case after case details how the Feds are cracking down on cyber-criminals, defendants are pleading [...]
Spitzer Gets on Sony BMG’s Case
A Homeland Security Dept. official has weighed in, accusing Sony BMG of undermining computer security. And Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has alleged, in a suit filed Nov. 21, that Sony BMG violated his state’s antispyware laws. Now, the Sony BMG debacle has drawn the scrutiny of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Spitzer’s office dispatched [...]
