RIAA copyright infringement lawsuits are based on an incomplete and faulty chain of evidence. After alleged infractions have been detected, the next step in the RIAA litigation process is identifying...
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I'm pleased to announce the P2P Search Engine at P2P Seek, which I've developed. P2P Seek provides the latest P2P technology and legal music and video. The P2P Search Engine encompasses over...
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Our article The Chill on Innovation covers part of the entertainment industry's battle to thwart threatening technology. But it's an unwinnable war. The complex world of technologies, markets,...
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Photo - DVD Jon by Irina Slutsky Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon, is back. He's the programmer who gained fame cracking DVD encryption. He now has moved to the U.S. and turned his attention to...
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The Center for Democracy and Technology released the paper "Evaluating DRM: Building a Marketplace for the Convergent World". It strikes a smart middle ground by not evaluating DRM against...
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Software developer POGO has launched P2P file sharing for Java and WAP-enabled GPRS and 3g mobile phones. The software can be used to share ringtones, music, games, videos and themes. There is no...
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Sony was denied P2P patents in England, which has the good sense to disallow patents for computer programs. In Sony's proposed invention a P2P user with a file could add personal comments about...
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The iPhantom by Phantom Technologies is a full solution for Internet and P2P privacy and security. A small device sits between your PC or broadband router and your Internet connection, such as cable,...
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Relakks is a new Internet privacy service. Relakks uses VPN tunneling for a secure, encrypted connection between services users and the Relakks servers. Internet traffic, such as web, P2P, IM, and...
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Ready to get your digital music and video directly on your iPod? You'll have to wait two years. Sprint will spend up $3 billion to be the first national broadband wireless ISP (WISP) and will use...
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We previously reported on the launch of Altnet's Global File Registry. The following reviews the product. The Registry tries to be likable. The word 'Registry' has a nice friendly official...
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by Marc on July 19, 2006
Are you spending $2 or $3 dollars for a 10 second ringtone when you can get the full 3 minute song for much less ($.69 at Real Music Store)? For a song you already own? Plus you have to buy......
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Sun has a dream. It is expanding its open source initiatives from Java programming to media rights with Project DReaM at OpenMediaCommons.org. Their open source architecture is another solution in...
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Navio provides meta-DRM. Buy your music or other content. They'll store and track it and allow you to export it to a legal restricted format, such as Apple iPod's Fairplay. Entertainment...
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by Marc on June 20, 2006
Eliot Van Buskirk dreams of any music anytime anywhere in Celestial Jukebox Falls to Earth in Wired. His ideal service is an unlimited music service that can be downloaded to your device of choice. He...
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by Marc on June 17, 2006
Brilliant Technologies announced its Qtrax service will offer legal music (1, 2) with P2P software. Qtrax will sell music from EMI and hopes to sign other major labels. Music can be purchased as a...
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by Marc on May 31, 2006
We're pleased to offer this blog through a plethora of RSS feeds, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Read What is RSS? to learn more. Here is an introduction if this is all new to you. "RSS is...
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by Marc on May 15, 2006
We're written before on p2p home entertainment media centers, LamaBox and MuViBOXX from Veritouch. But what about the entertainment fan who's PC-centric and running out of hard drive space for...
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Apple announced its vision of the merger of the digital and analog worlds with the iPod Hi-Fi. Apple's entertainment properties, including iPod music players and iTunes music store now account for...
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by Marc on February 19, 2006
P2POD is another home entertainment center like LamaBox and MuViBOXX, previously reported here. P2POD is offered by AHT International BV in Stellendam, the Netherlands. The device outputs to both...
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by Marc on February 19, 2006
Tinkerer Nathan True shows how to build your own Wireless Music Player. This truly is for hardcore programmers only with lots of time on their hands. True writes: It's a problem many of us are...
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