1. Yahoo Music: 3 months only
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...ed it would. Yahoo's advice is to back up your songs by burning audio CDs and ripping them in the MP3 file format, thereby effectively circumventing the DRM. This isn't the first time users o...

2. Legal UK P2P service Wippit shuts down
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...e something to do with the failure as well. Wippit originally marketed itself as a legal alternative to file sharing networks like Napster, but always had a far to little catalog to compete. It tri...

3. New German anti-piracy plan: Three strikes and you're ... slow?
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German rights holders have proposed new sanctions against file sharers that are supposed to allow a more direct cooperation with ISPs while stopping short of cutting users' Internet access. Instea

4. LAW: Edonkey server admin cant be liable for infringement
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... didn't participate directly in the infringement because his server did not actually host the audio files. It also ruled that there was no intentional facilitation of infringement because Warner&#...

5. Sony PSP 3000 review
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...of third-party and freeware software titles available, many of which focus on converting existing video files to PSP-friendly formats (see our "How to put video on your PSP" tutorial for one...

6. Your iPhone is watching you.
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...tion. But anyone who understands data is aware that in most cases, deletion does not permanently remove files from a storage device. Therefore, forensics experts have used this security flaw to succes...

7. BlackBerry Bold vs. iPhone 3G: Who Wins?
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...the ability to view HTML on BIS, but not on BES yet (unless you hacked that in), and there is no reason file type support is so convoluted. For instance, we can listen to our voicemail MP3s on our BIS...

8. US porn producer cashes in on German P2P lawsuits
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...c, better known as Evil Angel, has apparently hired a German anti-piracy company to track down and sue file sharers. A recently leaked contract shows that Evil Angel ordered Germany's Digiprotect t...

9. Lack of a Wii hard drive: negative aspects
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...ustration both of these methods cause. Copying data to a SD card is an extremely aggravating process. A file which consists of 250 blocks takes more than a few minutes to transfer. Moreover, some save...

10. Sony PSP Review
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...f third-party and freeware software titles available, many of which focus on converting existing video files to PSP-friendly formats (see our "How to put video on your PSP" tutorial for one example...

11. German TORRENT site raided by police
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German police raided the Düsseldorf apartment of the operator of a Tor exit node sometime after midnight on a Sunday morning in July, says Heise Online. Why all the attention? He’s said to

12. Demonoid IS NOT DEAD!
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Demonoid down reported yesterday, going on:   The CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA clown (sorry, clone), i

13. Music publishers say Kazaa deal reached
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...ANGELES (AP) — The music publishing industry reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement, an industry group said. Publishers ...

14. LimeWire Goes Legit
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Lime Wire LLC, maker of the controversial LimeWire file-sharing software, plans to go legit with a new music download service. Founded in 2000, LimeWire is better known as a peer-to-peer (P2P) networ

15. Aussie busted for "Simpsons Movie" piracy
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SYDNEY (Hollywood Reporter) - D'oh! Australia has the dubious distinction of being the first country in the world where "The Simpsons Movie" was pirated, with an illegal Internet cop

16. Spain outlaws P2P Networks
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A new law in Spain 86'es P2P networks, bans ISPs from "facillitating filesharing" and imposes a blanket tax on blank media. "The tax will go into a fund which will be shared among

17. Version of BitComet 0.89 is out
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 BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet

18. War Fears Turn Digital After Data Siege in Estonia
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...er all, for people here the Internet is almost as vital as running water; it is used routinely to vote, file their taxes, and, with their cellphones, to shop or pay for parking. What followed was wha...

19. How to do File Sharing Without Fear?
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... Preston Gralla, author of Windows XP Hacks   These days, the simple act of sharing music files with like-minded others can make you feel like a hunted criminal, never sure when the vi...

20. University ignores RIAA blackmail
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...sconsin went against the national trends Friday by warning students about its policy regarding illegal file sharing but refusing to forward settlement letters to violators from the Recording Indust...

21. Woman sues WayBack Machine
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...pite the obvious inability of a Web crawler to understand those terms and the absence of a robots.txt file to warn crawlers away," says Information Week.. The case reached the US Distri...

22. P2P: Open your Eyes! Here comes a new law.
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The Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) is calling for widespread support for H.R. 1201, the Fair Use Act introduced today by Rick Boucher (right) and John Doolittle. "Fair use pro

23. Companies using piracy techniques against Filesharers
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The Corporate Enemies of Filesharers If they aren't shutting down your favourite torrent site and sending you infringement notices they're filling your network with fakes, sueing yo

24. RIAA Threatens Open Wi-Fi
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...n, was sued by RIAA member company Capitol Records for allegedly sharing copyrighted material on a P2P file sharing network.  However, the alleged infringement was apparently committed by someone e...

25. BitTorrent to Launch Movie, TV Downloads
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... who regularly use BitTorrent to trade pirated versions of the same films and who more often watch such files on their computer instead of on a big screen TV in the living room. The San Francisco-bas...

26. uTorrent version 1.6.1 build 488 STABLE is released
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...s who could infiltrate your PC and execute arbitrary code if a user opens a manipulated torrent tracker file. The apparent "glitch" in the software was that torrent tracker fields may conta...

27. uTorrent exploit revealed
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...ers that can infiltrate your PC and execute arbitary code if a user opens a manipulated torrent tracker file. The apparent "glitch" in the software is that torrent tracker fields may contai...

28. Are Compulsory Licenses a Solution to the P2P Debate?
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...ion to the peer-to-peer debate, has since been hailed by fair-use lobbyists as the savior of persecuted file-sharers, establishing a common ground with the major music labels and offering the possibil...

29. Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks
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by Robert Kaye  Open file sharing systems like Kazaa welcome everyone on the net and enjoy a broad selection of content. The selection is so vast that Cory Doctorow calls it "The largest lib

30. Google accused of aiding movie pirates
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...line movie piracy, court documents show. Google is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which was filed by a group of major movie studios against two owners of sites like EasyDownloadCenter.com ...