Macrovision Attacks!

DVD copy protection software has become a bit of a running joke within the online community. It is a rare event that a DVD title is not available online for download - regardless of the associated copy protection. A key reason DVD piracy continues to run rampant is because CSS (Content Scrambling System) is still the protection standard... ...But Macrovision has a plan... [it] has developed two DVD copy protection technologies, RipGuard DVD and ACP (Analog Content Protection.)...

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=829

Morpheus: LimeWire is a Leech

Limewire has seen a recent surge in popularity, both by word of mouth and in the media. However not everyone is a fan. Michael Weiss recently had some very interesting comments about Limewire. "I think that LimeWire is one of the biggest P2P leeches in our industry. Not only have they left it to Morpheus to fight the biggest legal battle ever and foot the bill ($4 million and counting) by ourselves... they removed their bundles to take advantage of our situation thinking we could not afford to do so in their attempt to gain more users when we were vulnerable fighting on the front..."

http://www.p2pcore.com/stories/157.php

BitTorrent Inventor Lambastes Avalanche

Late last week, there was a flurry of media attention surrounding Avalanche. Avalanche was labeled as Microsoft's answer to BitTorrent... "First of all, I'd like to clarify that Avalanche is vaporware," Bram Cohen writes in his weblog. "It isn't a product which you can use or test with, it's a bunch of proposed algorithms. There isn't even a fleshed out network protocol. The 'experiments' they've done are simulations..."

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=833

Supreme Court Decision Preview: The Morpheus Interview

With the impending Supreme Court decision in MGM v Grokster expected tomorrow morning or Monday morning, we caught up with Michael Weiss, CEO StreamCast Networks, Inc., developers and distributors of Morpheus. We also interviewed Michael a few months back, he was kind enough to bring us up to speed on the court case and the impending release of Morpheus 5...

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/5507/Supreme+Court+Decision+Preview%3A+The+Morpheus+Interview/

Lawrence, Kansas - Hub of Digital Media Convergence

It's true, Virginia. Lawrence, Kansas is the hub of digital media convergence. Why? Because it's home to Rob Curley, the Lawrence-Journal World's director of New Media. Arguably the most visionary convergence journalist in the world, Curley has orchestrated the construction of...

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2005/06/hub-of-digital-media-convergence.html

Sponsored Gnutella Search Results

A new service called Gnutelligence aims to do to the gnutella network what Google's Adsense did for website publishers. Except in this case, Gnutelligence would be the only publisher. Basically they claim that they will return "relevant sponsored search results" based on a gnutella query...

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/5506/Sponsored+Gnutella+Search+Results/

Detecting and Fighting Phishers

Here's another wonderful, fraudulent, phishing email I just received. The scary thing is that, according to the Houston Chronicle, about 5% of adults receiving a phishing email provided some sort of personal information to the phisher. Want to fight back? We'll break this phishing scheme down, show you how to trace back a phishing email, and -- in some cases -- alert the parties who, wittingly or unwittingly, provide phishing infrastructure...

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2005/05/detecting-and-fighting-phishers.html

Microsoft P2P - Better than BitTorrent?

Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent. The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster...

http://zeropaid.com/news/5490/Microsoft+P2P%3A+Better+Than+BitTorrent%3F/

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