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Release of XoloX - a new Gnutella client - XoloX is proud to announce the release of one the most advanced and easy to use peer-to-peer filesharing application currently available. The aim of XoloX is to combine Napster’s ease-of-use with the reliability of download managers like Go!zilla. This allows even inexperienced computer-users to exchange their creations (mp3’s, movies, applications, etc.) in a very simple way. XoloX is a freeware-product based on the Gnutella protocol and incorporates many advanced features, such as: automatic configuration (no user-interaction needed), socks support (for people behind a proxy server), auto-resume (a computer crash will not threaten any downloads), single file-multiple server download (a file can be downloaded in segments), background intelligence and partial downloads (download from people who are downloading the same file from another source). Download XoloX v1.07 here.
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P, Release
Sklyarov and Elcomsoft each enter a not-guitly plea - At this morning's appearance at the US District Court in San Jose, CA, Dimitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov (on behalf of Elcomsoft) both entered not guilty pleas on five counts of violation of the DMCA.
The short appearance was attended mostly by press and well-wishers for Dimitry. Judge Richard Seaborg read the charges and maximum sentences - totalling about 25 years in prison and around $2 million each in fines, while an interpreter translated into Russian. Sklyarov and Katalov entered their pleas in English.
Their next appearance is set for September 4.
[editor's note, by erik] EFF Press Release. Greg Broiles writes on the free-sklyarov mailing list that the presiding judge of the next hearing, Ronald Whyte, does have a track record of technology cases:
Judge Whyte is not unfamiliar with technology and the Internet - he was the judge who ruled, in RTC v. Netcom, that Netcom could potentially be held liable for contributory copyright infringement when one of their downstream customers used their network access to violate the Church of Scientology's copyright; he also presides over the Sun v. Microsoft suit concerning Microsoft's license to use Sun's Java source code and trademark; and he presided over Ebay v. Bidder's Edge, where he ruled that Bidder's Edge's spidering of Ebay's auction site, over Ebay's objections (in English and via robots.txt), was a trespass and subject to a preliminary injuction.
RTC is the Co$-operated "Religous Technology Center". The case is documented here (search for Netcom / Whyte). Anyone care to read the relevant docs and post a summary?
The short appearance was attended mostly by press and well-wishers for Dimitry. Judge Richard Seaborg read the charges and maximum sentences - totalling about 25 years in prison and around $2 million each in fines, while an interpreter translated into Russian. Sklyarov and Katalov entered their pleas in English.
Their next appearance is set for September 4.
[editor's note, by erik] EFF Press Release. Greg Broiles writes on the free-sklyarov mailing list that the presiding judge of the next hearing, Ronald Whyte, does have a track record of technology cases:
Judge Whyte is not unfamiliar with technology and the Internet - he was the judge who ruled, in RTC v. Netcom, that Netcom could potentially be held liable for contributory copyright infringement when one of their downstream customers used their network access to violate the Church of Scientology's copyright; he also presides over the Sun v. Microsoft suit concerning Microsoft's license to use Sun's Java source code and trademark; and he presided over Ebay v. Bidder's Edge, where he ruled that Bidder's Edge's spidering of Ebay's auction site, over Ebay's objections (in English and via robots.txt), was a trespass and subject to a preliminary injuction.
RTC is the Co$-operated "Religous Technology Center". The case is documented here (search for Netcom / Whyte). Anyone care to read the relevant docs and post a summary?
Marcadores: Release
Microsoft E-Book Protection Cracked, Research Unpublished - Is there any copy prevention scheme that has not yet been cracked? SDMI, CSS, Adobe's e-book protection, Real Player's audio- and videostream protection, various pay-TV signal encryption methods -- none of these schemes withstood careful examination by researchers and hackers. Instead of admitting defeat, however, the content industry continues to use the DMCA (the direct result of its own lobbying efforts) to quell free speech. The SDMI crack has only been published with delay because the RIAA had threatened litigation, and we all know the stories of DeCSS and Dmitry Sklyarov. Streambox VCR, a tool for capturing Real Media streams, is no longer published after litigation of Real networks under the DMCA. Niels Ferguson has announced not to publish any results of his efforts to crack HDCP (a copy prevention system for digital video) for fear of litigation.
MIT's Tech Review reports that a programmer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has now demonstrated breaking Microsoft's E-Book Protection (LIT files):
The programmer's software works by recovering a series of well-hidden encryption keys specific to each activated copy of Reader and to each owner-exclusive e-book. It essentially reverses the process that publishers follow when they assemble source files such as text and images into a final e-book. The software dumps unprotected copies of these files into a new folder on the user's computer—as the programmer demonstrated to Technology Review using an actual owner-exclusive e-book purchased from a major online bookstore.
However, for fear of facing a fate similar to Sklyarov's, he has decided not to publish his program. This is yet another example of the "chilling effect" the DMCA has on cryptographic research. As results have to remain unpublished, corporations can gleefully refer to "alleged" security violations to customers and boast of their "secure content protection" schemes. This is like creating laws against blasphemy and then complaining that unbelievers can't come up with any logical argument against the existence of God (something which, incidentally, is quite common around the world).
MIT's Tech Review reports that a programmer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has now demonstrated breaking Microsoft's E-Book Protection (LIT files):
The programmer's software works by recovering a series of well-hidden encryption keys specific to each activated copy of Reader and to each owner-exclusive e-book. It essentially reverses the process that publishers follow when they assemble source files such as text and images into a final e-book. The software dumps unprotected copies of these files into a new folder on the user's computer—as the programmer demonstrated to Technology Review using an actual owner-exclusive e-book purchased from a major online bookstore.
However, for fear of facing a fate similar to Sklyarov's, he has decided not to publish his program. This is yet another example of the "chilling effect" the DMCA has on cryptographic research. As results have to remain unpublished, corporations can gleefully refer to "alleged" security violations to customers and boast of their "secure content protection" schemes. This is like creating laws against blasphemy and then complaining that unbelievers can't come up with any logical argument against the existence of God (something which, incidentally, is quite common around the world).
Sklyarov Defense Fund - The Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov has been indicted today for breaking Adobe's ebook encryption (see Free Sklyarov homepage and the first infoAnarchy story on the subject). Now Dmitry's wife, Oxana, by way of Vladimir Katalov from Elcomsoft, has asked the Net community for support in the upcoming trial. She writes:
I am sending this message to thank everyone who supports Dmitri and our family. We never expected to receive support from so many people around the world. I am told that many of you asked how to help us at this difficult time. Please note that The Defense Fund has now been opened. Here is the relevant information:
DMITRI DEFENSE FUND
Wiring Instructions:
First Union National Bank
Philadelphia, PA
ABA #031201467
Account #: 2000104359781
Account Name: Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP Escrow Account
*YOU MUST reference "The Dmitri Defense Fund - R0247-2" on all incoming wires.*
Donation by Check:
The Dmitri Defense Fund
c/o Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP
100 Spear Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, California 94105
USA
*Please make check payable to "DMH Escrow Agent for Dmitri Defense Fund"*
Whether you want to support the defense in this specific case is of course your decision (remember that Elcomsoft is a for-profit company). Alternatively, you might donate money to the EFF, which generally supports cyber liberties in the US, or a similar organization in your country.
Update [2001-8-29 15:42:18 by erik]: Read the EFF Press Release for more information on Dmitry's indictment. Note that he has been indicted on five counts, including "conspiracy" charges, and could potentially face 25 years in prison. It is incredible that a punishment of this proportions is even theoretically possible for what is essentially a "thought crime" (how much would you get for murder? child molestation? rape?), but comes as no surprise to anyone who sees the US at what they have become: a corporate police state.
I am sending this message to thank everyone who supports Dmitri and our family. We never expected to receive support from so many people around the world. I am told that many of you asked how to help us at this difficult time. Please note that The Defense Fund has now been opened. Here is the relevant information:
DMITRI DEFENSE FUND
Wiring Instructions:
First Union National Bank
Philadelphia, PA
ABA #031201467
Account #: 2000104359781
Account Name: Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP Escrow Account
*YOU MUST reference "The Dmitri Defense Fund - R0247-2" on all incoming wires.*
Donation by Check:
The Dmitri Defense Fund
c/o Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP
100 Spear Street, Suite 1500
San Francisco, California 94105
USA
*Please make check payable to "DMH Escrow Agent for Dmitri Defense Fund"*
Whether you want to support the defense in this specific case is of course your decision (remember that Elcomsoft is a for-profit company). Alternatively, you might donate money to the EFF, which generally supports cyber liberties in the US, or a similar organization in your country.
Update [2001-8-29 15:42:18 by erik]: Read the EFF Press Release for more information on Dmitry's indictment. Note that he has been indicted on five counts, including "conspiracy" charges, and could potentially face 25 years in prison. It is incredible that a punishment of this proportions is even theoretically possible for what is essentially a "thought crime" (how much would you get for murder? child molestation? rape?), but comes as no surprise to anyone who sees the US at what they have become: a corporate police state.
Marcadores: Release
Of Net Control, Punishments and Rewards
Taming the Web by Charles Mann, Tech Review
Mann presents some good arguments for how control and censorship of the Internet is actually possible. Some are flawed (especially the arguments against Gnutella), but I agree that the belief that the Net itself will solve all problems of censorship and "route around them" is a false one, even though more censorship and control requires more centralization of information. I agree with him that activism is therefore necessary, and while the saying "information wants to be free" (as in, it will gradually become less controlled) may be wrong, I would say that "information needs to be free" instead.
Cyber Citizen Lands Felony Charges (LinuxFreak)
A typical case of a user who discovered a security bug on a website, reported it and was subsequently charged as a "cybercriminal". Moral: If you find a security flaw, post it anonymously somewhere, but don't tell the company about it. Also see follow-up.
WMA Decoder Removed from CNET Because of DMCA "Violation"
A little shareware program that can play Windows Media files has apparently been removed from CNET's Download.com site because it "violates the DMCA". The company claims that the decoder respects the copyright flags in WMA files. The DMCA proves to be a very powerful tool for instant censorship.
Write Against the DMCA, Win $250
Boycott RIAA has a small contest for good editorials against the DMCA. It runs until August 31.
Dmitry's DEF CON Nine presentation available on videotape (Planet PDF)
Planet PDF has a description of Dmitry Sklyarov's presentation, and you can also order a videotape of his talk from TSOK (computers|defcon).
WATCH OUT FOR THIS LOGO AND TELL MANUFACTURERS TO USE IT.
Taming the Web by Charles Mann, Tech Review
Mann presents some good arguments for how control and censorship of the Internet is actually possible. Some are flawed (especially the arguments against Gnutella), but I agree that the belief that the Net itself will solve all problems of censorship and "route around them" is a false one, even though more censorship and control requires more centralization of information. I agree with him that activism is therefore necessary, and while the saying "information wants to be free" (as in, it will gradually become less controlled) may be wrong, I would say that "information needs to be free" instead.
Cyber Citizen Lands Felony Charges (LinuxFreak)
A typical case of a user who discovered a security bug on a website, reported it and was subsequently charged as a "cybercriminal". Moral: If you find a security flaw, post it anonymously somewhere, but don't tell the company about it. Also see follow-up.
WMA Decoder Removed from CNET Because of DMCA "Violation"
A little shareware program that can play Windows Media files has apparently been removed from CNET's Download.com site because it "violates the DMCA". The company claims that the decoder respects the copyright flags in WMA files. The DMCA proves to be a very powerful tool for instant censorship.
Write Against the DMCA, Win $250
Boycott RIAA has a small contest for good editorials against the DMCA. It runs until August 31.
Dmitry's DEF CON Nine presentation available on videotape (Planet PDF)
Planet PDF has a description of Dmitry Sklyarov's presentation, and you can also order a videotape of his talk from TSOK (computers|defcon).
WATCH OUT FOR THIS LOGO AND TELL MANUFACTURERS TO USE IT.
eDonkey2000 .57 released
eDonkey2000 *.57 released - There is a new version of eDonkey2K, one of the most popular file sharing clients (Windows, Linux, closed source; see review). eDonkey downloads files from multiple users who have them simulateneously, even when these other users are still downloading the file themselves. This makes it possible to get astonishing transfer rates, especially for popular, large files. Because of its automatic resuming even between sessions, you don't have to worry much about broken downloads -- only about files that never appear online again.
The latest version, according to the homepage, "fixes some memory leaks and other bugs. The chat is now IRC so everyone can chat no matter what server they are connected to. I sorta gave up trying to estimate your line speed. So now there is a place in options where you can enter it."
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The latest version, according to the homepage, "fixes some memory leaks and other bugs. The chat is now IRC so everyone can chat no matter what server they are connected to. I sorta gave up trying to estimate your line speed. So now there is a place in options where you can enter it."
Marcadores: eDonkey, P2P, Release
Fingered by the Movie Cops - Salon Magazine has an article out called Fingered by the Movie Cops about the overzealous accusations of a company employed by the MPAA to enfore its copyright. The victim's net access was terminated for over a week, and no physical or detailed information about the infraction was provided. A first hand account of the growing abuse of copyright law against individuals.
"Viral Copyright Infringement" - The New Legal Bludgeon - MP3.com is going back to court. This time, the company is being sued not just for direct copyright infringement, but also for "viral infringement" -- a novel new legal concept by which MP3.com can be held liable for every MP3 file traded anywhere. For complete coverage, see the Reuters article at Findlaw, or the Mercury News article.
The new lawsuit, filed on behalf of 52 music publishers and artists, seeks damages for three types of copyright infringement. First, the suit claims MP3.com is guilty of direct infringement for copying songs and converting them to to MP3. Second, the suit alleges contributory infringement in MP3.com's subscription service, which provided "on demand" access to the infringed works. Third (and this is where it gets really original), the suit claims MP3.com is guilty of "vicarious infringement" through "viral distribution" of the infringed works; that is, because MP3.com made the illegal MP3s available online, and these MP3s subsequently spread through Napster and and other file trading services, MP3.com may be held liable for the spread of MP3s on these other services.
Never mind that most music traded on Napster (at least in the early days) was ripped from CD. Never mind that it is impossible to determine -- or even to estimate -- how many many of the millions of MP3s traded online originated with MP3.com. Even the legal reasoning is shaky at best. None of that matters, because MP3.com is an easy target and, now that it
The new lawsuit, filed on behalf of 52 music publishers and artists, seeks damages for three types of copyright infringement. First, the suit claims MP3.com is guilty of direct infringement for copying songs and converting them to to MP3. Second, the suit alleges contributory infringement in MP3.com's subscription service, which provided "on demand" access to the infringed works. Third (and this is where it gets really original), the suit claims MP3.com is guilty of "vicarious infringement" through "viral distribution" of the infringed works; that is, because MP3.com made the illegal MP3s available online, and these MP3s subsequently spread through Napster and and other file trading services, MP3.com may be held liable for the spread of MP3s on these other services.
Never mind that most music traded on Napster (at least in the early days) was ripped from CD. Never mind that it is impossible to determine -- or even to estimate -- how many many of the millions of MP3s traded online originated with MP3.com. Even the legal reasoning is shaky at best. None of that matters, because MP3.com is an easy target and, now that it
Marcadores: Napster
Zeropaid.com - Outrage Spreads over 'Scumware'
posted by Marcus on 2001-08-29 21:23:22, An interesting article, especially for those using KaZaa. From the article: "If you haven't caught up with this topic yet, prepare to be horrified. When I checked CNet's Download.com this week, eZula's KaZaa had been downloaded 7.4 million times. Many of the 7.4 million people who downloaded KaZaa - a Napster-like file-sharing tool - apparently didn't even realize that they were also installing TopText. TopText, like Microsoft's widely denounced SmartTags, works through your browser. It modifies your web page, highlighting in yellow all the keywords which eZula has sold. Advertisers pay per click for the keywords. What it's doing is inserting advertisers' hyperlinks in YOUR pages." For more details, read the whole article.
posted by Marcus on 2001-08-29 21:23:22, An interesting article, especially for those using KaZaa. From the article: "If you haven't caught up with this topic yet, prepare to be horrified. When I checked CNet's Download.com this week, eZula's KaZaa had been downloaded 7.4 million times. Many of the 7.4 million people who downloaded KaZaa - a Napster-like file-sharing tool - apparently didn't even realize that they were also installing TopText. TopText, like Microsoft's widely denounced SmartTags, works through your browser. It modifies your web page, highlighting in yellow all the keywords which eZula has sold. Advertisers pay per click for the keywords. What it's doing is inserting advertisers' hyperlinks in YOUR pages." For more details, read the whole article.
Marcadores: Napster
Release of XoloX - a new Gnutella clientXoloX is proud to announce the most advanced and easiest peer-to-peer filesharing application currently available. As of today version 1.07 of XoloX is released. The aim of XoloX is to combine Napster’s ease-of-use with the reliability of download managers like Go!zilla. This allows even inexperienced computer-users to exchange their creations (mp3’s, movies, applications, etc.) in a very simple way. XoloX is a freeware-product based on the Gnutella protocol and incorporates many advanced features, such as: automatic configuration (no user-interaction needed), socks support (for people behind a proxy server), auto-resume (a computer crash will not threaten any downloads), single file-multiple server download (a file can be downloaded in segments), background intelligence and partial downloads (download from people who are downloading the same file).
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P, Release
Zeropaid.com - Hive An Enterprise P2P Platform Based on JXTA - posted by Hari on 2001-08-28 02:33:52, Alberg Software Inc announces the launch of HIVE® 1.0 Beta. An Enterprise P2P platform for developing new, collaborative applications based on the JXTA P2P platform. It also has a suite of tools and components to complete the process of Enterprise Business Management. What sets HIVE apart, and makes them interesting from a distributed standpoint, is the absence of a central server for regulating processes or for storage of data. To complete its pervasive utility, HIVE comes equipped with a set of utility components / tools for "Discussion", "Instant Messaging", "File Sharing", "Calendering" etc.
Zeropaid.com - The Internet Backlash - posted by dubstylee on 2001-08-28 22:41:50, Check out this report on the evolution of the internet, from free-wheeling anarchy to a safe business environment and back again. The author goes on very eloquently about large corporations and their involvement in the internet. "Comparable to the indices of banned books created by the Catholic church in an attempt to maintain its monopoly, we see now the banning of technologies and the persecution of their creators because they threaten the status quo of traditionally dominant institutions." Good stuff.
Zeropaid.com - Survey: Net Users Not Ready to Pay for Music - posted by dubstylee on 2001-08-28 22:35:35, Well, duh. Whay pay when you can be Zeropaid? A report on News.com says "Consumers have not accepted purchasing and downloading music via the Web and are not likely to change with the new services being developed by the recording industry." Now, remember, when these new services come out, what are you gonna do? Pay Zero.
Zeropaid.com - Bearshare Competition? posted by Me on 2001-08-26 06:50:08, Just found a interesting Gnutella client that hopefully should give Bearshare and all the others something to think about. The most outstanding feature of this program is the ability to download a single file from multiple users at the same time aka KaZaA/Morpheus,a first for the Gnutella network. Check it out here.
Zeropaid.com - The File Sharing Portal posted by dubstylee on 2001-08-27 10:39:07, Wired.com reports good news for college students: "College students intent on sharing music and movie files over the Internet are in for a surprise when they return to school -- they'll have fewer restrictions on their swapping." Fun fun so in between getting seriously drunk and abusing sorority girls, college kids can download music!
Zeropaid.com - Wireless Acess Zones posted by Jeramey on 2001-08-27 16:55:58
Infoworld.com just ran an article about the uprising of free wireless access points in metro areas. Through opening up your high-speed Internet access with 802.11b you have created your own wireless Internet connection with range up to 300 square foot area. "The major goal is to build up the 802.11b infrastructure inside the city. If you have a home that is connected to the Internet, for example, I use your connection and you can use mine." said Matt Westervelt
Infoworld.com just ran an article about the uprising of free wireless access points in metro areas. Through opening up your high-speed Internet access with 802.11b you have created your own wireless Internet connection with range up to 300 square foot area. "The major goal is to build up the 802.11b infrastructure inside the city. If you have a home that is connected to the Internet, for example, I use your connection and you can use mine." said Matt Westervelt
Zeropaid.com - New Version of edonkey2000 - posted by edonkey2000 on 2001-08-25 22:23:31, A new version of edonkey2000 has been released, fixing a number of bugs and adding several new features. A minor memory leak has been fixed insuring improved performance. A new chat feature has also been added to the features list, allowing edonkey2000 users to chat over IRC anywhere in the world. edonkey2000 also offers a new Linux client. eDonkey2000 allows you to transfer any type of file. It automatically resumes interrupted transfers from alternate sources. It even introduces ways to share a collection of files together so you can be sure to get all the songs in an album or all parts of a movie. Users will be able to download a file from multiple sources at the same time, thus ensuring that transfers will be as fast as possible.
Marcadores: Release
Books for a song - In the tradition of Napster, entire copies of best-selling authors' novels are being downloaded on the Internet. It's a trend that has some Canadian publishers worried.
Napster-like technology that allows computer users to download entire copies of pirated books is busy creating a nightmare for the publishing industry, says a British Internet monitoring service.
It is an unnerving scenario that already has some Canadian publishers raising alarms, and it works like this:
If you want to read a novel by Stephen King, the modern master of horror writing, you can go to a bookstore and buy a copy of one of his novels, which usually cost at least $10 for a paperback or $35 in hardcover, thereby protecting the interests of the writer and the publisher.
Or, if you don't feel like paying, let alone leaving your house, you can simply go online and use one of the better-known file-sharing Web sites, such as Gnutella, to download for free any of King's many novels.
It took a National Post reporter 30 minutes to navigate Gnutella, find King's 1984 work Thinner on the network and download the novel. Printing the book required another 15 minutes.
Even accounting for the cost of an Internet connection, paper and ink, this is a saving on the purchase price of the book.
And neither King nor his publisher received a cent from the online transaction.
Prominent writers such as King and Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling are already seeing their current books being openly traded online, says Ben Coppin, the chief operating officer of Cambridge-based Internet monitor Envisional.
His company says there are as many as 7,500 pirated books available on the Internet.
"Before the latest Harry Potter book was on sale in Germany, it was available online in German," he says.
In addition to best-sellers written by such authors as King and Rowling, the most widely pirated books online are science fiction novels and computer manuals. The two most frequently pirated Canadian writers are science fiction novelist William Gibson and satirist Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X.
Coupland made the top 10 list of most pirated authors prepared by Envisional. He shared this honour with such writers as King, Rowling, fantasist Terry Pratchett, spy writer Tom Clancy and science fiction satirist Douglas Adams.
"It started with Napster and everybody said, 'Oh well, this will never happen to books,' " says Jackie Hushion, executive director of the Canadian Publishers' Council in Toronto.
"What we are finding now is that books are traded across peer-to-peer networks ... And there is plenty of software out there that allows computer users with access to a copy of a book and a scanner to create a really high-quality reproduction."
The Canadian Publishers' Council is preparing a report examining how the emergence of new peer-to-peer file-exchange systems could pose a huge threat to publishers.
"This is not a rich industry," says Hushion. "So if you take away people's ability to make a reasonable profit, obviously they are not going to reduce their investment on an ongoing basis. If they do that, the next big author might not emerge."
Most online copyright infringement is done by individuals as a favour for friends, or as an interesting challenge for hackers. According to Coppin, the risk is that what is now a hobby could turn into big business the way Napster did.
Napster, a file-sharing system that allowed computer users to swap digital music files, was developed by an American university student, Shawn Fanning, in 1999.
While Napster enjoyed worldwide popularity soon after its release, it was widely criticized for facilitating copyright infringement. In December of 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America sued Napster, eventually forcing it to shut down.
Napster says it will be back in business at the end of the year, but will charge a fee for every song downloaded.
Not everyone believes there is a similar imminent threat to the publishing industry.
"Stealing a book online seems to me a waste of a thief's time, given the effort involved to save a few bucks," says Jason Epstein, former editorial director of Random House. "It would not be a very good business or much of a threat to publishers. I would not worry about it now."
In an e-mail interview from his Vancouver home yesterday, Coupland was equally unconcerned about the problem of losing royalties through file-sharing.
"If you look at books purely from a revenue viewpoint, libraries are the big income killers for any writer -- but are libraries somehow more noble than file-sharing? It seems to be the same thing, so getting huffy would be hypocritical. Ditto for loaning a book to friends. Or making photocopies.
"Anyone who's ever read a book in unbound galley-page format can tell you it's zero fun to read a printed-out book," he wrote.
But Coppin says the relative ease of copying a book makes pirating a danger.
"You can get machines now where you slice off the spine of a book, place the spineless book into this machine and it flips through all the pages and scans them all in," he says. "There is obviously software which will convert the pages into something computers can read. This can be distributed immediately to anywhere in the world."
He envisions unscrupulous people setting up shop in unregulated countries in the Far East, scanning books and distributing them for profit over the Internet.
While Hushion believes publishers need to be more vigilant about online copyright infringement, she argues the ultimate solution to the problem may involve book companies making their product more accessible, which means in part making better use of the Internet.
"There is a middle ground," she says. "We as an industry have to do everything we can to make content fairly and easily accessible at an appropriate price to consumers."
Stephen King tried that last year when he released a new book on the Internet and charged a nominal fee to download it chapter by chapter.
He charged users on the honour system and said he would continue releasing the book as long as enough people paid the fee.
After a few months, he cancelled the project.
Napster-like technology that allows computer users to download entire copies of pirated books is busy creating a nightmare for the publishing industry, says a British Internet monitoring service.
It is an unnerving scenario that already has some Canadian publishers raising alarms, and it works like this:
If you want to read a novel by Stephen King, the modern master of horror writing, you can go to a bookstore and buy a copy of one of his novels, which usually cost at least $10 for a paperback or $35 in hardcover, thereby protecting the interests of the writer and the publisher.
Or, if you don't feel like paying, let alone leaving your house, you can simply go online and use one of the better-known file-sharing Web sites, such as Gnutella, to download for free any of King's many novels.
It took a National Post reporter 30 minutes to navigate Gnutella, find King's 1984 work Thinner on the network and download the novel. Printing the book required another 15 minutes.
Even accounting for the cost of an Internet connection, paper and ink, this is a saving on the purchase price of the book.
And neither King nor his publisher received a cent from the online transaction.
Prominent writers such as King and Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling are already seeing their current books being openly traded online, says Ben Coppin, the chief operating officer of Cambridge-based Internet monitor Envisional.
His company says there are as many as 7,500 pirated books available on the Internet.
"Before the latest Harry Potter book was on sale in Germany, it was available online in German," he says.
In addition to best-sellers written by such authors as King and Rowling, the most widely pirated books online are science fiction novels and computer manuals. The two most frequently pirated Canadian writers are science fiction novelist William Gibson and satirist Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X.
Coupland made the top 10 list of most pirated authors prepared by Envisional. He shared this honour with such writers as King, Rowling, fantasist Terry Pratchett, spy writer Tom Clancy and science fiction satirist Douglas Adams.
"It started with Napster and everybody said, 'Oh well, this will never happen to books,' " says Jackie Hushion, executive director of the Canadian Publishers' Council in Toronto.
"What we are finding now is that books are traded across peer-to-peer networks ... And there is plenty of software out there that allows computer users with access to a copy of a book and a scanner to create a really high-quality reproduction."
The Canadian Publishers' Council is preparing a report examining how the emergence of new peer-to-peer file-exchange systems could pose a huge threat to publishers.
"This is not a rich industry," says Hushion. "So if you take away people's ability to make a reasonable profit, obviously they are not going to reduce their investment on an ongoing basis. If they do that, the next big author might not emerge."
Most online copyright infringement is done by individuals as a favour for friends, or as an interesting challenge for hackers. According to Coppin, the risk is that what is now a hobby could turn into big business the way Napster did.
Napster, a file-sharing system that allowed computer users to swap digital music files, was developed by an American university student, Shawn Fanning, in 1999.
While Napster enjoyed worldwide popularity soon after its release, it was widely criticized for facilitating copyright infringement. In December of 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America sued Napster, eventually forcing it to shut down.
Napster says it will be back in business at the end of the year, but will charge a fee for every song downloaded.
Not everyone believes there is a similar imminent threat to the publishing industry.
"Stealing a book online seems to me a waste of a thief's time, given the effort involved to save a few bucks," says Jason Epstein, former editorial director of Random House. "It would not be a very good business or much of a threat to publishers. I would not worry about it now."
In an e-mail interview from his Vancouver home yesterday, Coupland was equally unconcerned about the problem of losing royalties through file-sharing.
"If you look at books purely from a revenue viewpoint, libraries are the big income killers for any writer -- but are libraries somehow more noble than file-sharing? It seems to be the same thing, so getting huffy would be hypocritical. Ditto for loaning a book to friends. Or making photocopies.
"Anyone who's ever read a book in unbound galley-page format can tell you it's zero fun to read a printed-out book," he wrote.
But Coppin says the relative ease of copying a book makes pirating a danger.
"You can get machines now where you slice off the spine of a book, place the spineless book into this machine and it flips through all the pages and scans them all in," he says. "There is obviously software which will convert the pages into something computers can read. This can be distributed immediately to anywhere in the world."
He envisions unscrupulous people setting up shop in unregulated countries in the Far East, scanning books and distributing them for profit over the Internet.
While Hushion believes publishers need to be more vigilant about online copyright infringement, she argues the ultimate solution to the problem may involve book companies making their product more accessible, which means in part making better use of the Internet.
"There is a middle ground," she says. "We as an industry have to do everything we can to make content fairly and easily accessible at an appropriate price to consumers."
Stephen King tried that last year when he released a new book on the Internet and charged a nominal fee to download it chapter by chapter.
He charged users on the honour system and said he would continue releasing the book as long as enough people paid the fee.
After a few months, he cancelled the project.
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P, Release
Herald Sun: Vivendi buys MP3 [ 30aug01 ] FRENCH media giant Vivendi Universal has purchased US-based music website MP3.com in a deal valued at more than $US370 million ($698.77 million) in stocks and cash.
MP3.com allows users to download songs from the internet onto CDs and listen to them on any computer.
In a joint statement issued in Paris and New York, Vivendi said shareholders of MP3.com had overwhelmingly approved the deal at an extraordinary meeting.
Vivendi president Jean-Marie Messier said: "The acquisition of MP3.com is a very important step in our strategy to create a distribution platform, and at the same time to acquire a state-of-the-art technology."
He added that the purchase was essential for the company to realise its "objective to become the primary supplier of on-line music and related services".
MP3 is the main format used by Napster, Gnutella, and other song exchange sites.
MP3.com allows users to download songs from the internet onto CDs and listen to them on any computer.
In a joint statement issued in Paris and New York, Vivendi said shareholders of MP3.com had overwhelmingly approved the deal at an extraordinary meeting.
Vivendi president Jean-Marie Messier said: "The acquisition of MP3.com is a very important step in our strategy to create a distribution platform, and at the same time to acquire a state-of-the-art technology."
He added that the purchase was essential for the company to realise its "objective to become the primary supplier of on-line music and related services".
MP3 is the main format used by Napster, Gnutella, and other song exchange sites.
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P
Napster Bootleggers - In order to escape the tough competition that characterises the online music market, Hifind has decided to concentrate on a small but profitable niche, that of music for the world of cinema, radio and television production. In this way, while Napster continues to suffer amid general indifference, waiting for its new owner, Bertelsmann, to decide how to commercially exploit the company that cost more than a billion dollars, the Hamburg-based company (through its own subsidiary, Initaudio) has presented its new platform Audience, which should make its online debut in October, at the Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) in Berlin.
Safe from the danger of the competing technologies based on the Gnutella protocol, aimed at the general public orphaned by Shawn Fanning’s creation, Hifind set up this initiative last January in collaboration with the former monopolist Deutsche Telekom, already a partner on other occasions. Audience is a product devised for professional operators, such as radio and television broadcasters and production houses. Its main function consists of a search engine based on so-called intelligent agents that allow the user to carry out searches in the most varied directories, on the basis of 300 different criteria.
Thanks to the agreement with 16 producers specialising in the so-called Library music or Production Music, including Selected Sound Musikverlag (part of the EMI group), and the German company Sonoton, there are 140,000 music tracks in Audience’s databases, to be used for television programs, radio broadcasts, adverts, films and documentaries. The service is free, but in order to download files directly from the Internet, the user must have ISDN access provided by Deutsche Telekom.
Audience is one of two products developed by Hifind; the other can be accessed at Hifind.com and is aimed at all Internet users. Like many other sites, it offers the possibility of downloading MP3 files and purchasing CDs online. Transformed into a public company in 1999 in view of a possible listing on the Stock Exchange, Hifind, whose CEO is Manuel Tessloff, has abandoned this project for the moment. The liquidity necessary to continue operating is provided by the company’s majority shareholder, the Hamburg-based fund Pricap Venture Capital.
Safe from the danger of the competing technologies based on the Gnutella protocol, aimed at the general public orphaned by Shawn Fanning’s creation, Hifind set up this initiative last January in collaboration with the former monopolist Deutsche Telekom, already a partner on other occasions. Audience is a product devised for professional operators, such as radio and television broadcasters and production houses. Its main function consists of a search engine based on so-called intelligent agents that allow the user to carry out searches in the most varied directories, on the basis of 300 different criteria.
Thanks to the agreement with 16 producers specialising in the so-called Library music or Production Music, including Selected Sound Musikverlag (part of the EMI group), and the German company Sonoton, there are 140,000 music tracks in Audience’s databases, to be used for television programs, radio broadcasts, adverts, films and documentaries. The service is free, but in order to download files directly from the Internet, the user must have ISDN access provided by Deutsche Telekom.
Audience is one of two products developed by Hifind; the other can be accessed at Hifind.com and is aimed at all Internet users. Like many other sites, it offers the possibility of downloading MP3 files and purchasing CDs online. Transformed into a public company in 1999 in view of a possible listing on the Stock Exchange, Hifind, whose CEO is Manuel Tessloff, has abandoned this project for the moment. The liquidity necessary to continue operating is provided by the company’s majority shareholder, the Hamburg-based fund Pricap Venture Capital.
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P
VBS_MERLIN.C description and solution - This destructive, polymorphic, Visual Basic Script (VBS) virus propagates via email in Microsoft Outlook, Gnutella network, and MIRC. It infects files or copies itself to local and network drives.
Upon first execution, it creates 10,000 randomly named directories in the root directory Drive C:\. It creates a text file with the same name in each directory.
Upon first execution, it creates 10,000 randomly named directories in the root directory Drive C:\. It creates a text file with the same name in each directory.
Gnutella News - Innoval Plans Free Gnutella Filtering Program - In response to recent congressional inquiries regarding pornography sharing over P2P networks, Innoval Systems Solutions will release a free filtering program to block potentially questionable material from appearing on Gnutella-based programs. Their filtering software dubbed RiFilter can block all Gnutella traffic or certain types of files (e.g. AVI, MP3) from being downloaded. RiFilter can also screen search results and block queries that contain pornographic keywords.
According the Innoval's press release they will make RiFilter free to schools, libraries, churches, and other organizations that provide Internet access to children. The company plans to recoup the cost of providing the program free to these institutions by charging for corporate and other use.
According the Innoval's press release they will make RiFilter free to schools, libraries, churches, and other organizations that provide Internet access to children. The company plans to recoup the cost of providing the program free to these institutions by charging for corporate and other use.
Marcadores: Gnutella, P2P, Release
SAPO - Portugal - CeBIT - Filtro de empresa alemã impede troca de ficheiros MP3
Pretendendo superar os actuais sistemas de filtragem que apenas monitorizam o nome dos ficheiros, a Webdefender, uma companhia de segurança informática está a promover na CeBIT, a feira de novas tecnologias de Hannover que termina amanhã, um novo software designado LanShield Enterprise.mp3, que previne a troca de ficheiros MP3 em programas como o Napster, Gnutella e Aimster, informou a ZDNet Deutschland.
Ao contrário do filtro introduzido pelo Napster neste mês - que apenas inspecciona o nome dos ficheiros -, o LanShield Enterprise.mp3 analisa os dados a um nível binário, detectando as faixas comprimidas em MP3. Segundo Jörg Wigger, fundador e chefe executivo da Webdefender citado por aquele site, "o LanShield pesquisa num ficheiro deste tipo informações sobre a editora discográfica e o autor da música, sendo que todos os dados sem referências são bloqueados".
A empresa auto-denomina este sistema como "o primeiro firewall do mundo que filtra conteúdos". Na sua opinião, este produto apresenta-se como a solução efectiva para vários programas alternativos ao Napster, como o Gnutella que continua a funcionar sem ser atingido por acusações legais. É necessário porém que os fornecedores de acesso à Internet introduzam o sistema, para que a distribuição de cópias em formato MP3 seja bloqueada antes mesmo de chegar aos utilizadores.
Pretendendo superar os actuais sistemas de filtragem que apenas monitorizam o nome dos ficheiros, a Webdefender, uma companhia de segurança informática está a promover na CeBIT, a feira de novas tecnologias de Hannover que termina amanhã, um novo software designado LanShield Enterprise.mp3, que previne a troca de ficheiros MP3 em programas como o Napster, Gnutella e Aimster, informou a ZDNet Deutschland.
Ao contrário do filtro introduzido pelo Napster neste mês - que apenas inspecciona o nome dos ficheiros -, o LanShield Enterprise.mp3 analisa os dados a um nível binário, detectando as faixas comprimidas em MP3. Segundo Jörg Wigger, fundador e chefe executivo da Webdefender citado por aquele site, "o LanShield pesquisa num ficheiro deste tipo informações sobre a editora discográfica e o autor da música, sendo que todos os dados sem referências são bloqueados".
A empresa auto-denomina este sistema como "o primeiro firewall do mundo que filtra conteúdos". Na sua opinião, este produto apresenta-se como a solução efectiva para vários programas alternativos ao Napster, como o Gnutella que continua a funcionar sem ser atingido por acusações legais. É necessário porém que os fornecedores de acesso à Internet introduzam o sistema, para que a distribuição de cópias em formato MP3 seja bloqueada antes mesmo de chegar aos utilizadores.
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P
Encerramento da Napster fortalece alternativas - Perante o encerramento do serviço da Napster que permite a partilha anónima de ficheiros de música na Internet, os utilizadores deste serviço começaram já a procurar alternativas. Até ontem, o site da Scour Exchange, por exemplo, era praticamente desconhecido.
Em geral, o tráfego nos sites de partilha anónima de ficheiros de música atingiu ontem níveis nunca vistos. Por volta do meio dia, segundo uma notícia da Associated Press, mais de 31 mil pessoas tinham já utilizado o Scour Exchange e trocado mais de dois milhões de ficheiros de música.
O Scour Exchange funciona com o mesmo método da Napster. Contudo, para além da partilha de ficheiros comprimidos em formato MP3, tem ainda a particularidade de actualizar regularmente os seus ficheiros de vídeo e cinema, que podem também ser trocados na Internet.
Outra das formas alternativas utilizadas pelos cibernautas foram os sites baseados no programa Gnutella. Trata-se de um sistema que partilha uma lista ficheiros disponíveis, funcionando o computador de cada utilizador como um server, já que não há um server central.
Alguns destes sites que abastecem a rede Gnutella viram ontem os seus acessos atingir níveis nunca alcançados. Um deles foi de tal modo invadido que se viu forçado a ficar offline para aumentar a capacidade de recepção de utilizadores.
Enquanto estas movimentações se multiplicavam, no site da Napster, a sala de conversações era inundada com mensagens de protesto e apelos ao boicote contra a RIAA, a associação representativa da indústria discográfica nos EUA.
Uma dos participantes, citado pela AP, apelou mesmo a que ninguém compre mais CD's até que a Napster, que ontem atingiu um recorde de audiências, seja autorizada a reabrir.
Em geral, o tráfego nos sites de partilha anónima de ficheiros de música atingiu ontem níveis nunca vistos. Por volta do meio dia, segundo uma notícia da Associated Press, mais de 31 mil pessoas tinham já utilizado o Scour Exchange e trocado mais de dois milhões de ficheiros de música.
O Scour Exchange funciona com o mesmo método da Napster. Contudo, para além da partilha de ficheiros comprimidos em formato MP3, tem ainda a particularidade de actualizar regularmente os seus ficheiros de vídeo e cinema, que podem também ser trocados na Internet.
Outra das formas alternativas utilizadas pelos cibernautas foram os sites baseados no programa Gnutella. Trata-se de um sistema que partilha uma lista ficheiros disponíveis, funcionando o computador de cada utilizador como um server, já que não há um server central.
Alguns destes sites que abastecem a rede Gnutella viram ontem os seus acessos atingir níveis nunca alcançados. Um deles foi de tal modo invadido que se viu forçado a ficar offline para aumentar a capacidade de recepção de utilizadores.
Enquanto estas movimentações se multiplicavam, no site da Napster, a sala de conversações era inundada com mensagens de protesto e apelos ao boicote contra a RIAA, a associação representativa da indústria discográfica nos EUA.
Uma dos participantes, citado pela AP, apelou mesmo a que ninguém compre mais CD's até que a Napster, que ontem atingiu um recorde de audiências, seja autorizada a reabrir.
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P
Napster, Alternativas gratuitas - O Napster foi apenas o início de uma nova geração de programas de partilha de ficheiros que vai alterar a forma como se acede à informação, colocando em causa os direitos de autor. Actualmente, estão disponíveis na Internet dezenas de aplicações alternativas ao Napster e o seu número não pára de crescer. Alguns são alvos fáceis para as editoras. Outros são muito mais difíceis de serem processados judicialmente, uma vez que os ficheiros não têm que passar por servidores centrais, sendo que os seus responsáveis não podem controlar o material que é partilhado.
Mesmo que as empresas multimédia lancem os seus serviços pagos com conteúdos próprios, a oferta gratuita não se vai desvanecer. Na verdade, são cada vez mais os cibernautas que decidem instalar este tipo de software e utilizá-lo para trocar com desconhecidos música e não só - vídeos, imagens, documentos, jogos, aplicações –, sem pagar nenhuns direitos de autor.
Eis alguns dos mais conhecidos:
Aimster – Este programa utiliza a sua tecnologia no programa de mensagens imediatas do utilizador, podendo este trocar todo o tipo de ficheiros com amigos que estejam na lista de endereços (buddy list) de pessoas conhecidas. Desta forma, as músicas, fotografias e textos não têm que passar através de uma rede de milhares de computadores, como no Napster ou no Gnutella, o que poupa largura de banda, demorando-se menos tempo a efectuar downloads. Actualmente, tem cerca de três milhões de utilizadores registados. Porém, só funciona no sistema operativo Windows.
No dia 4 de Março, a empresa proprietária do Aimster colocou na sua home-page um pequeno software designado Pig Encoder que subvertia o filtro do Napster, ao utilizar a linguagem Pig Latin que alterava o nome das músicas bloqueadas pelo sistema de filtragem – por exemplo, Smashing Pumpkins passava a ser mashingS umpkinsP -, para que fossem acessíveis. Mas a pedido da Napster, a Aimster retirou o programa do seu site no dia 15.
Freenet - O Freenet foi um dos pioneiros na comunidade de partilha de ficheiros ou Peer-to-Peer (P2P). Criado pelo inglês Ian Clark, parecia há um ano ser a grande alternativa ao Napster. Para além de possibilitar a partilha de toda a espécie de informação, os cibernautas podem utilizá-lo de uma forma anónima, por ser completamente descentralizado. Assim, é quase impossível os tribunais, as editoras discográficas e os fornecedores de acesso à Internet obterem a identidade e origem dos seus utilizadores. Mas a complexidade de utilização e o interface um pouco rudimentar fez com que o Freenet tenha atraído até agora um número reduzido de pessoas. Para além do Windows, também está disponível para Unix e Linux.
Gnutella - Criado no dia 14 de Março de 2000 por dois programadores da Nullsoft, criadora do popular leitor de ficheiros MP3 Winamp e subsidiária da AOL, em poucas horas o Gnutella foi retirado do site da Nullsoft pela empresa mãe. Mas dezenas de programadores reconstruíram o software e desde então lançaram várias versões modificadas para Windows, Mac e Linux. Ninguém controla o Gnutella, porque este é, tal como o Freenet, completamente descentralizado. A sua rede é feita de milhares de nós ou hosts que são os computadores dos utilizadores, na medida em que se alguém quiser acabar com o serviço, tem que encerrar todos os nós.
A primeira geração de clones do programa não era muito fácil de utilizar e era frequente provocar que o computador fosse abaixo. Mas, desde o início deste ano, tem aparecido uma nova geração, como o BearShare e o LimeWire, que são bastante mais fáceis de utiliza, possuem uma maior estabilidade, empregam de uma forma mais eficaz a largura de banda disponível e incluem poderosos motores de busca. Segundo dados da Clip2, empresa que monitoriza o tráfego dos programas P2P, no dia 17 de Março, Sábado, estavam 18 mil utilizadores na rede do Gnutella partilhado dois milhões de ficheiros, o que representava 413 mil Gigabytes de informação.
OpenNap – Tal como o nome indica, o OpenNap é um clone do Napster numa versão open-source. Este conceito refere-se ao tipo de software cujo código-fonte pode ser visionado e alterado que serviu de fundamento ao Linux, estando aliás muito associado ao movimento P2P, já que o Gnutella também é open-source. Tal como o Napster, o OpenNap recorre a servidores que permitem aos utilizadores encontrar, ordenar e pesquisar os ficheiros MP3 nos discos rígidos dos outros.
Estes servidores funcionam em sistemas empresariais e são mantidos por indivíduos ou empresas como a Music City. Esta companhia é a que possui mais servidores do Open Nap, cerca de 30, de acordo com o Napigator, um serviço que regista o número de servidores em funcionamento do Napster e do Open Nap. Por não poderem correr nos vulgares PCs dos utilizadores, os servidores podem ser facilmente encerrados pelos tribunais. Existem versões para Windows, Linux e FreeBSD. Segundo as estatísticas da Clip2, às 22 horas e 46 minutos (hora portuguesa) de Sábado, dia 17, o OpenNap tinha mais de 100 mil utilizadores, o número de ficheiros partilhados era de 21 milhões, ou seja, 93 mil Gigabytes. Em comparação, segundo o TeK investigou, apenas 9 mil utilizadores estavam ligados ao Napster e o número de ficheiros disponíveis nem chegava ao milhão, significando 4 mil Gigabytes.
Ao longo do ano 2000, houve algumas empresas proprietárias destes serviços e programas que encerraram definitivamente, pressionadas pelos processos das editoras discográficas, como o CuteMX, por exemplo. Outras renderam-se e estabeleceram acordos com a indústria para o lançamento de novos serviços pagos. É o caso da Scour, que vai reabrir o seu serviço no final deste mês para efectuar downloads de filmes e músicas, só que mediante o pagamento de uma subscrição mensal.
Mas outros, muitos outros, como o KaZaa, o iMesh, o AudioGalaxy Satellite, o Rapigator, o SongSpy, o File Rogue e tantos mais continuam a surgir semana após semana, demonstrando que a troca gratuita de músicas e filmes na Internet não vai deixar de ser um hábito para mais de 60 milhões de cibernautas que não compreendem ou aceitam que essa actividade é, perante a lei, ilegal.
Mesmo que as empresas multimédia lancem os seus serviços pagos com conteúdos próprios, a oferta gratuita não se vai desvanecer. Na verdade, são cada vez mais os cibernautas que decidem instalar este tipo de software e utilizá-lo para trocar com desconhecidos música e não só - vídeos, imagens, documentos, jogos, aplicações –, sem pagar nenhuns direitos de autor.
Eis alguns dos mais conhecidos:
Aimster – Este programa utiliza a sua tecnologia no programa de mensagens imediatas do utilizador, podendo este trocar todo o tipo de ficheiros com amigos que estejam na lista de endereços (buddy list) de pessoas conhecidas. Desta forma, as músicas, fotografias e textos não têm que passar através de uma rede de milhares de computadores, como no Napster ou no Gnutella, o que poupa largura de banda, demorando-se menos tempo a efectuar downloads. Actualmente, tem cerca de três milhões de utilizadores registados. Porém, só funciona no sistema operativo Windows.
No dia 4 de Março, a empresa proprietária do Aimster colocou na sua home-page um pequeno software designado Pig Encoder que subvertia o filtro do Napster, ao utilizar a linguagem Pig Latin que alterava o nome das músicas bloqueadas pelo sistema de filtragem – por exemplo, Smashing Pumpkins passava a ser mashingS umpkinsP -, para que fossem acessíveis. Mas a pedido da Napster, a Aimster retirou o programa do seu site no dia 15.
Freenet - O Freenet foi um dos pioneiros na comunidade de partilha de ficheiros ou Peer-to-Peer (P2P). Criado pelo inglês Ian Clark, parecia há um ano ser a grande alternativa ao Napster. Para além de possibilitar a partilha de toda a espécie de informação, os cibernautas podem utilizá-lo de uma forma anónima, por ser completamente descentralizado. Assim, é quase impossível os tribunais, as editoras discográficas e os fornecedores de acesso à Internet obterem a identidade e origem dos seus utilizadores. Mas a complexidade de utilização e o interface um pouco rudimentar fez com que o Freenet tenha atraído até agora um número reduzido de pessoas. Para além do Windows, também está disponível para Unix e Linux.
Gnutella - Criado no dia 14 de Março de 2000 por dois programadores da Nullsoft, criadora do popular leitor de ficheiros MP3 Winamp e subsidiária da AOL, em poucas horas o Gnutella foi retirado do site da Nullsoft pela empresa mãe. Mas dezenas de programadores reconstruíram o software e desde então lançaram várias versões modificadas para Windows, Mac e Linux. Ninguém controla o Gnutella, porque este é, tal como o Freenet, completamente descentralizado. A sua rede é feita de milhares de nós ou hosts que são os computadores dos utilizadores, na medida em que se alguém quiser acabar com o serviço, tem que encerrar todos os nós.
A primeira geração de clones do programa não era muito fácil de utilizar e era frequente provocar que o computador fosse abaixo. Mas, desde o início deste ano, tem aparecido uma nova geração, como o BearShare e o LimeWire, que são bastante mais fáceis de utiliza, possuem uma maior estabilidade, empregam de uma forma mais eficaz a largura de banda disponível e incluem poderosos motores de busca. Segundo dados da Clip2, empresa que monitoriza o tráfego dos programas P2P, no dia 17 de Março, Sábado, estavam 18 mil utilizadores na rede do Gnutella partilhado dois milhões de ficheiros, o que representava 413 mil Gigabytes de informação.
OpenNap – Tal como o nome indica, o OpenNap é um clone do Napster numa versão open-source. Este conceito refere-se ao tipo de software cujo código-fonte pode ser visionado e alterado que serviu de fundamento ao Linux, estando aliás muito associado ao movimento P2P, já que o Gnutella também é open-source. Tal como o Napster, o OpenNap recorre a servidores que permitem aos utilizadores encontrar, ordenar e pesquisar os ficheiros MP3 nos discos rígidos dos outros.
Estes servidores funcionam em sistemas empresariais e são mantidos por indivíduos ou empresas como a Music City. Esta companhia é a que possui mais servidores do Open Nap, cerca de 30, de acordo com o Napigator, um serviço que regista o número de servidores em funcionamento do Napster e do Open Nap. Por não poderem correr nos vulgares PCs dos utilizadores, os servidores podem ser facilmente encerrados pelos tribunais. Existem versões para Windows, Linux e FreeBSD. Segundo as estatísticas da Clip2, às 22 horas e 46 minutos (hora portuguesa) de Sábado, dia 17, o OpenNap tinha mais de 100 mil utilizadores, o número de ficheiros partilhados era de 21 milhões, ou seja, 93 mil Gigabytes. Em comparação, segundo o TeK investigou, apenas 9 mil utilizadores estavam ligados ao Napster e o número de ficheiros disponíveis nem chegava ao milhão, significando 4 mil Gigabytes.
Ao longo do ano 2000, houve algumas empresas proprietárias destes serviços e programas que encerraram definitivamente, pressionadas pelos processos das editoras discográficas, como o CuteMX, por exemplo. Outras renderam-se e estabeleceram acordos com a indústria para o lançamento de novos serviços pagos. É o caso da Scour, que vai reabrir o seu serviço no final deste mês para efectuar downloads de filmes e músicas, só que mediante o pagamento de uma subscrição mensal.
Mas outros, muitos outros, como o KaZaa, o iMesh, o AudioGalaxy Satellite, o Rapigator, o SongSpy, o File Rogue e tantos mais continuam a surgir semana após semana, demonstrando que a troca gratuita de músicas e filmes na Internet não vai deixar de ser um hábito para mais de 60 milhões de cibernautas que não compreendem ou aceitam que essa actividade é, perante a lei, ilegal.
Marcadores: Gnutella, Napster, P2P
Gravadoras já vendem CDs com proteção contra cópia - Segundo o site SiliconValley.com, a versão virtual do noticiário sobre tecnologia do Mercury News: as principais gravadoras já começaram a vender, por baixo dos panos, CDs protegidos contra a cópia digital de suas músicas.
A tecnologia contida nesses CDs impede que um usuário consiga copiar seus arquivos para o computador, em formato MP3, ou para um CD virgem. De acordo com a matéria, atribuída à agência Associated Press, os primeiros CDs estão sendo vendidos na Europa, mas as gravadoras se recusaram a dizer quais são os artistas que já estão digitalmente protegidos.
Para a AP, estariam envolvidas na operação Warner Music, EMI, Universal, BMG e Sony Music. Diz a matéria que apenas a Sony e a BMG confirmaram ter colocado CDs protegidos à venda nas lojas européias.
A maioria dos fãs de música gostam de fazer cópias pessoais de suas músicas favoritas, e esta atividade nunca foi considerada ilegal. Mas a indústria acredita que continuar dando a seus consumidores esta facilidade seria escancarar a porta para que os mesmos começassem a trocar as músicas em serviços online, como o Napster e o Audiogalaxy. Em sua defesa, as gravadoras costumas dizer que não querem manter os arquivos musicais longe dos computadores, mas sim ter um maior controle de como eles chegam aos equipamentos.
Os analistas de mercado, segundo o SiliconValley, duvidam da eficácia da estratégia: "A música precisa ser portátil. Precisa estar no carro e em seu dispositivo portátil, e o que a indústria vai encontrar é uma batalha perdida, a menos que liberem as cópias", afirmou o analista de mídia digital Phil Leigh, da Raymond James and Associates, à AP.
A tecnologia contida nesses CDs impede que um usuário consiga copiar seus arquivos para o computador, em formato MP3, ou para um CD virgem. De acordo com a matéria, atribuída à agência Associated Press, os primeiros CDs estão sendo vendidos na Europa, mas as gravadoras se recusaram a dizer quais são os artistas que já estão digitalmente protegidos.
Para a AP, estariam envolvidas na operação Warner Music, EMI, Universal, BMG e Sony Music. Diz a matéria que apenas a Sony e a BMG confirmaram ter colocado CDs protegidos à venda nas lojas européias.
A maioria dos fãs de música gostam de fazer cópias pessoais de suas músicas favoritas, e esta atividade nunca foi considerada ilegal. Mas a indústria acredita que continuar dando a seus consumidores esta facilidade seria escancarar a porta para que os mesmos começassem a trocar as músicas em serviços online, como o Napster e o Audiogalaxy. Em sua defesa, as gravadoras costumas dizer que não querem manter os arquivos musicais longe dos computadores, mas sim ter um maior controle de como eles chegam aos equipamentos.
Os analistas de mercado, segundo o SiliconValley, duvidam da eficácia da estratégia: "A música precisa ser portátil. Precisa estar no carro e em seu dispositivo portátil, e o que a indústria vai encontrar é uma batalha perdida, a menos que liberem as cópias", afirmou o analista de mídia digital Phil Leigh, da Raymond James and Associates, à AP.
Marcadores: Napster
Gravadoras já vendem CDs com proteção contra cópia - Segundo o site SiliconValley.com, a versão virtual do noticiário sobre tecnologia do Mercury News: as principais gravadoras já começaram a vender, por baixo dos panos, CDs protegidos contra a cópia digital de suas músicas.
A tecnologia contida nesses CDs impede que um usuário consiga copiar seus arquivos para o computador, em formato MP3, ou para um CD virgem. De acordo com a matéria, atribuída à agência Associated Press, os primeiros CDs estão sendo vendidos na Europa, mas as gravadoras se recusaram a dizer quais são os artistas que já estão digitalmente protegidos.
Para a AP, estariam envolvidas na operação Warner Music, EMI, Universal, BMG e Sony Music. Diz a matéria que apenas a Sony e a BMG confirmaram ter colocado CDs protegidos à venda nas lojas européias.
A maioria dos fãs de música gostam de fazer cópias pessoais de suas músicas favoritas, e esta atividade nunca foi considerada ilegal. Mas a indústria acredita que continuar dando a seus consumidores esta facilidade seria escancarar a porta para que os mesmos começassem a trocar as músicas em serviços online, como o Napster e o Audiogalaxy. Em sua defesa, as gravadoras costumas dizer que não querem manter os arquivos musicais longe dos computadores, mas sim ter um maior controle de como eles chegam aos equipamentos.
Os analistas de mercado, segundo o SiliconValley, duvidam da eficácia da estratégia: "A música precisa ser portátil.2
A tecnologia contida nesses CDs impede que um usuário consiga copiar seus arquivos para o computador, em formato MP3, ou para um CD virgem. De acordo com a matéria, atribuída à agência Associated Press, os primeiros CDs estão sendo vendidos na Europa, mas as gravadoras se recusaram a dizer quais são os artistas que já estão digitalmente protegidos.
Para a AP, estariam envolvidas na operação Warner Music, EMI, Universal, BMG e Sony Music. Diz a matéria que apenas a Sony e a BMG confirmaram ter colocado CDs protegidos à venda nas lojas européias.
A maioria dos fãs de música gostam de fazer cópias pessoais de suas músicas favoritas, e esta atividade nunca foi considerada ilegal. Mas a indústria acredita que continuar dando a seus consumidores esta facilidade seria escancarar a porta para que os mesmos começassem a trocar as músicas em serviços online, como o Napster e o Audiogalaxy. Em sua defesa, as gravadoras costumas dizer que não querem manter os arquivos musicais longe dos computadores, mas sim ter um maior controle de como eles chegam aos equipamentos.
Os analistas de mercado, segundo o SiliconValley, duvidam da eficácia da estratégia: "A música precisa ser portátil.2
Marcadores: Napster
Gravadoras já vendem CDs com proteção contra cópia - Segundo o site SiliconValley.com, a versão virtual do noticiário sobre tecnologia do Mercury News: as principais gravadoras já começaram a vender, por baixo dos panos, CDs protegidos contra a cópia digital de suas músicas.
A tecnologia contida nesses CDs impede que um usuário consiga copiar seus arquivos para o computador, em formato MP3, ou para um CD virgem. De acordo com a matéria, atribuída à agência Associated Press, os primeiros CDs estão sendo vendidos na Europa, mas as gravadoras se recusaram a dizer quais são os artistas que já estão digitalmente protegidos.
Para a AP, estariam envolvidas na operação Warner Music, EMI, Universal, BMG e Sony Music. Diz a matéria que apenas a Sony e a BMG confirmaram ter colocado CDs protegidos à venda nas lojas européias.
A maioria dos fãs de música gostam de fazer cópias pessoais de suas músicas favoritas, e esta atividade nunca foi considerada ilegal. Mas a indústria acredita que continuar dando a seus consumidores esta facilidade seria escancarar a porta para que os mesmos começassem a trocar as músicas em serviços online, como o Napster e o Audiogalaxy. Em sua defesa, as gravadoras costumas dizer que não querem manter os arquivos musicais longe dos computadores, mas sim ter um maior controle de como eles chegam aos equipamentos.
Os analistas de mercado, segundo o SiliconValley, duvidam da eficácia da estratégia: "A música precisa ser portátil.2
A tecnologia contida nesses CDs impede que um usuário consiga copiar seus arquivos para o computador, em formato MP3, ou para um CD virgem. De acordo com a matéria, atribuída à agência Associated Press, os primeiros CDs estão sendo vendidos na Europa, mas as gravadoras se recusaram a dizer quais são os artistas que já estão digitalmente protegidos.
Para a AP, estariam envolvidas na operação Warner Music, EMI, Universal, BMG e Sony Music. Diz a matéria que apenas a Sony e a BMG confirmaram ter colocado CDs protegidos à venda nas lojas européias.
A maioria dos fãs de música gostam de fazer cópias pessoais de suas músicas favoritas, e esta atividade nunca foi considerada ilegal. Mas a indústria acredita que continuar dando a seus consumidores esta facilidade seria escancarar a porta para que os mesmos começassem a trocar as músicas em serviços online, como o Napster e o Audiogalaxy. Em sua defesa, as gravadoras costumas dizer que não querem manter os arquivos musicais longe dos computadores, mas sim ter um maior controle de como eles chegam aos equipamentos.
Os analistas de mercado, segundo o SiliconValley, duvidam da eficácia da estratégia: "A música precisa ser portátil.2
Marcadores: Napster
Lista com todos os Spywares conhecidos até hoje.
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List of Known Spyware
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100% Word Search Free, 123Search, 2MinuteWarning, 3d Anarchy, 3D Frog Man Demo, 3D Maze Man Demo, 3D-FTP, 3rd block
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Abe's FTP Client, Abe's Image Viewer, Abe's MP3 Finder, Abe's Picture Finder, Abe's SMB Client, Absolute Yukon Solitaire, Access Diver III, Aces and Kings Solitaire, Acorn Email, AcqURL, ActionOutline Light 1.6, Active 'Net, AddAce, Add URL, Add/Remove Plus!, Add/Remove Plus!, Address Rover 98, Admiral VirusScanner, Advanced Call Center, Advanced Maillist Verify, AdWizard, Alchemist Demo, Alive and Kicking, alphaScape QuickPaste, Appload Notify, ASP1-A3, Auction Explorer, Aureate Group Mail, Aureate SpamKiller, AutoFTP PRO, AutoWeb, AxelCD
B
Balloon Pop Demo, Banner Crafter, Beatle, Binary Boy, BinaryVortex, Bingo Demo, Bingo Master Demo, Blast Thru Demo, Blue Engine, BookSmith : Original, buddyPhone 2, Business Letter Punch
C
Calypso E-mail, CamGrab, Capture Express 2000, Cascoly Screensaver, CDDB-Reader, CDMaster32, ChanStat, Charity Banner, Chat PicPluck, Cheat Machine, Check & Get, Check4New, Chinese Checkers Demo, ChinMail, Clabra clipboard viewer, Classic Peg Solitaire, CoffeeCup Free HTML, ComTry Music Downloader, Connect ?, Crazy Drake Demo, Crazy Puzzle Demo, CrushPop, Crystal FTP, CSE HTML Validator Lite, CS Telnet, Cursor Maker, CuteFTP, CuteFTP 3.0, CuteFTP 3.0 beta, CuteFTP/Tripod, CuteMX, CutePage
D
Danzig Pref Engine, DateTime, DB to HTML Express, Debt Relief, Delphi Component Test, Delphi Tester, Develop Critical Thinking Skills, Dialer 2000, DigiBand NewsWatch, DigiCams - WebCam Viewer, Digital Postman, Digital Postman, DirectUpdate, DL-Mail Pro 2000, DNScape, Doorbell 1.18, dotCool Builder, Download Minder 1.5, Download Wonder, DownLoader v.1.1, Dweebs Demo, Dwyco Video Conferencing
E
EconForecast, EasySeeker, EmmaSoft ChatCat, EmmaSoft dBrow, EmmaSoft KeepLan, EmmaSoft Soundz, eMNGma, EnvoyMail, Essay-Punch, Extreme Animals Demo, Extreme Bugs Demo, Extreme Dinosaurs Demo, Extreme Orchids Demo, EZ-Forms FREE
F
File Mag-Net, File Sniffer, FileSplit, FlexSpex, Folder Guard Jr., FourTimes, Free Picture Harvester, Free Solitaire, Free Solitaire, Free Spades, Free Submitter Pro, FreeImageEditor, FreeIRC, FreeNotePad, FreeSite, FreeWebBrowser, FreeWebMail, FreeZip!, FTPEditor
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Galactic Invasion Demo, Galaxy of 3D TetriMania Demo, Gardener Demo, Garret Demo, GetRight, Glowing Bugs Demo, Go!Zilla, Go!Zilla WebAttack, GovernMail, Grafula, Grammar Fitness Suite, Gunther's PasswordSentry, Gypsee
H
HangWeb, hesci Private Label, Hexx Wars II, Home Buyer's Calculator Suite, HTML Translator, HTTP Proxy-Spy, Huey v1.8 Color Picker
I
Iban Technologies IP Tools 3.1, Idyle GimmIP, Idyle GimmIP, iFind Graphics, Image Carousel, Image Site Grabber, imageN, InboxSpecialist, Infinite Patience, InfoBlast, InnovaClub, InstallZIP, Intergalactic Exterminator Demo, Internet Tree, Internetrix, InterWebWord Companion, IPLAY, iSolitaire, IVOX, IVOX ICQ
J
JetCar, JFK Research, jIRC, JOC Email Checker, JOC Web Finder, JOC Web Spider
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KVT Diplom
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LapLink FTP, Lexicon Demo, Link Crafter, LineSoft Download, LivePaper, Loan Calculator Plus, LOL Chat, Ludo Safari Demo
M
Mahjongg Master 2 Demo, MailAlert, Mail Them, Meracl FontMap, Meracl ImageMap Generator, Midnight Oil Solitaire, MidWaviPro, Mini Golf Demo, MirNik Internet Finder, More Space 99, MouseAssist, MP3 Album Finder, MP3 Album Finder, MP3 Fiend, MP3 Grouppie, MP3 Mag-Net, MP3 Renamer, Mp3 Stream Recorder, MP3INFO-Editor, Mr. Cool, MSi-Clip, MultiSender, Music Genie, MX Inspector BIG AD, My Genie Patriots, My Genie SE, My GetRight
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NeatFTP, Nebula Fighter Demo, Net CB, Net Scan 2000, Net Vampire, Net-A-Car Feature Car ScreenSaver, NetAnts, NetBoard, Netbus Pro 2.10, NetCaptor 5.0, Netman Downloader, NetNak, NetScoopFinance, NetSuck 3.10.5, NetTime Thingy, Network Assistant, NeuroStock, NewsBin, News-Lynx, NewsShark, NewsWire, NfoNak, NotePads+, Notificator 1.0b
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Octopus, Of The Day Quizzer, Oxide Demo
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Paragraph Punch, Patriot Slots, Pattern Book, PCDJ PHAT, People Seek 98, Personal Auction Track, Personal Search Agent, Personal Stock Monitor SE, Photocopier, Photocopier, PicPluck, Pictures In News, Ping Thingy, PingMaster, PKZip, Planet.Billboard, Planet.MP3Find, PMS, Powerzip 2000 Lite, ProtectX 3, ProxyChecker, Puzzle Master Demo
Q
QuadSucker/Web, Quadzle Puzzles, QuikLink Autobot, QuikLink Explorer, QuikLink Explorer Gold Edition, QuoteWatch, QuoTracker, QWallet
R
RahJongg Demo, Raptor Call of the Shadows Demo, Real Estate Web Site Creator, Recipe Review, ReGet, ReGet 1.6, Resume Detective, RingSurf, RoboCam 1.10, Rosemary's Weird Web World, RubberDuck H30+
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SaberQuest Page Burner, SafeNet Mail, SBJV, SBWcc, Scout's Game, ScreenFIRE, ScreenFIRE - FileKing, ScreenFlavors, Sea Battle, Shakespeare Punch, Shizzam, ShortKeys Lite, Simple Submit, SimpleFind, SimpleSubmit v1.0, Simplicity Personal Organizer, Site Select, SK-111, SL4 Historical Montage, Smart 'n Sticky, SmartBoard 200 FREE Edition, SmartDoc 3.0, SmartSum calculator, Sonic Mail, SonicMail, Sound Agent, Space Central Screen Saver, Speedy Eggbert Demo, Splash! Siterave, SSScanner, SSSiter, SSSpider, StartDrive, Star Miner Demo, Static FTP, StayOn Pro, StockBrowser, Stock Profit Spread Calculator 32, Subscriber, SunEdit 2K, Superball Challenge Demo, SuperIDE, Surf Saver, Sweep, SweepsWinner, System Agent
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Tagger, TetriMania Master Demo, Text Transmogrifier, The Mapper, TheNet, TI-FindMail, TIFNY, Time Zone Converter, Tools 3.1, Total Finger, Total Whois, Tracking The Eye, Trade Site Creator, Trade Trakker, Tray Note Plus, TS-Image Mapper, Tunnel Blaster Demo, TWinExplorer Standard, TypeWriter 1.0
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uICE, UK Phone Codes
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Vagabond's Realm, VeriMP3, Vertigo QSearch, Virtual Access, Visual Cyberadio, Visual Surfer, VOG Backgammon Main, VOG Backgammon Table, VOG Chess Main, VOG Chess Table, VOG Reversi Main, VOG Reversi Table, VOG Shell, VOG Shell History
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W3Filer, War Demo, Web-Cam VCR, Web Coupon, Web Page Authoring Software, Web Registrant PRO, Web Resume, WebStripper, Web SurfACE, WEB2SMS, WebCamVCR, WebCopier, Web-N-Force, WebSaver, Website Manager, WebStripper, WebType, Whitehouse Mambo Parody, WhizFolders Organizer, Whois, WhoIs Thingy, Win A Lotto, WinEdit 2000, Word+, Word Connect Demo, Word Search Mania Demo, Wordwright, WorldChat Client, Worm, Writing about Reading, Writing for Business, www.devgames.com
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xBlock
Y
Your ESP Test
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Zion, Zip Express 2000
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List of Known Spyware
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100% Word Search Free, 123Search, 2MinuteWarning, 3d Anarchy, 3D Frog Man Demo, 3D Maze Man Demo, 3D-FTP, 3rd block
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Abe's FTP Client, Abe's Image Viewer, Abe's MP3 Finder, Abe's Picture Finder, Abe's SMB Client, Absolute Yukon Solitaire, Access Diver III, Aces and Kings Solitaire, Acorn Email, AcqURL, ActionOutline Light 1.6, Active 'Net, AddAce, Add URL, Add/Remove Plus!, Add/Remove Plus!, Address Rover 98, Admiral VirusScanner, Advanced Call Center, Advanced Maillist Verify, AdWizard, Alchemist Demo, Alive and Kicking, alphaScape QuickPaste, Appload Notify, ASP1-A3, Auction Explorer, Aureate Group Mail, Aureate SpamKiller, AutoFTP PRO, AutoWeb, AxelCD
B
Balloon Pop Demo, Banner Crafter, Beatle, Binary Boy, BinaryVortex, Bingo Demo, Bingo Master Demo, Blast Thru Demo, Blue Engine, BookSmith : Original, buddyPhone 2, Business Letter Punch
C
Calypso E-mail, CamGrab, Capture Express 2000, Cascoly Screensaver, CDDB-Reader, CDMaster32, ChanStat, Charity Banner, Chat PicPluck, Cheat Machine, Check & Get, Check4New, Chinese Checkers Demo, ChinMail, Clabra clipboard viewer, Classic Peg Solitaire, CoffeeCup Free HTML, ComTry Music Downloader, Connect ?, Crazy Drake Demo, Crazy Puzzle Demo, CrushPop, Crystal FTP, CSE HTML Validator Lite, CS Telnet, Cursor Maker, CuteFTP, CuteFTP 3.0, CuteFTP 3.0 beta, CuteFTP/Tripod, CuteMX, CutePage
D
Danzig Pref Engine, DateTime, DB to HTML Express, Debt Relief, Delphi Component Test, Delphi Tester, Develop Critical Thinking Skills, Dialer 2000, DigiBand NewsWatch, DigiCams - WebCam Viewer, Digital Postman, Digital Postman, DirectUpdate, DL-Mail Pro 2000, DNScape, Doorbell 1.18, dotCool Builder, Download Minder 1.5, Download Wonder, DownLoader v.1.1, Dweebs Demo, Dwyco Video Conferencing
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EconForecast, EasySeeker, EmmaSoft ChatCat, EmmaSoft dBrow, EmmaSoft KeepLan, EmmaSoft Soundz, eMNGma, EnvoyMail, Essay-Punch, Extreme Animals Demo, Extreme Bugs Demo, Extreme Dinosaurs Demo, Extreme Orchids Demo, EZ-Forms FREE
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File Mag-Net, File Sniffer, FileSplit, FlexSpex, Folder Guard Jr., FourTimes, Free Picture Harvester, Free Solitaire, Free Solitaire, Free Spades, Free Submitter Pro, FreeImageEditor, FreeIRC, FreeNotePad, FreeSite, FreeWebBrowser, FreeWebMail, FreeZip!, FTPEditor
G
Galactic Invasion Demo, Galaxy of 3D TetriMania Demo, Gardener Demo, Garret Demo, GetRight, Glowing Bugs Demo, Go!Zilla, Go!Zilla WebAttack, GovernMail, Grafula, Grammar Fitness Suite, Gunther's PasswordSentry, Gypsee
H
HangWeb, hesci Private Label, Hexx Wars II, Home Buyer's Calculator Suite, HTML Translator, HTTP Proxy-Spy, Huey v1.8 Color Picker
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Iban Technologies IP Tools 3.1, Idyle GimmIP, Idyle GimmIP, iFind Graphics, Image Carousel, Image Site Grabber, imageN, InboxSpecialist, Infinite Patience, InfoBlast, InnovaClub, InstallZIP, Intergalactic Exterminator Demo, Internet Tree, Internetrix, InterWebWord Companion, IPLAY, iSolitaire, IVOX, IVOX ICQ
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JetCar, JFK Research, jIRC, JOC Email Checker, JOC Web Finder, JOC Web Spider
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KVT Diplom
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LapLink FTP, Lexicon Demo, Link Crafter, LineSoft Download, LivePaper, Loan Calculator Plus, LOL Chat, Ludo Safari Demo
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Mahjongg Master 2 Demo, MailAlert, Mail Them, Meracl FontMap, Meracl ImageMap Generator, Midnight Oil Solitaire, MidWaviPro, Mini Golf Demo, MirNik Internet Finder, More Space 99, MouseAssist, MP3 Album Finder, MP3 Album Finder, MP3 Fiend, MP3 Grouppie, MP3 Mag-Net, MP3 Renamer, Mp3 Stream Recorder, MP3INFO-Editor, Mr. Cool, MSi-Clip, MultiSender, Music Genie, MX Inspector BIG AD, My Genie Patriots, My Genie SE, My GetRight
N
NeatFTP, Nebula Fighter Demo, Net CB, Net Scan 2000, Net Vampire, Net-A-Car Feature Car ScreenSaver, NetAnts, NetBoard, Netbus Pro 2.10, NetCaptor 5.0, Netman Downloader, NetNak, NetScoopFinance, NetSuck 3.10.5, NetTime Thingy, Network Assistant, NeuroStock, NewsBin, News-Lynx, NewsShark, NewsWire, NfoNak, NotePads+, Notificator 1.0b
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Octopus, Of The Day Quizzer, Oxide Demo
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Paragraph Punch, Patriot Slots, Pattern Book, PCDJ PHAT, People Seek 98, Personal Auction Track, Personal Search Agent, Personal Stock Monitor SE, Photocopier, Photocopier, PicPluck, Pictures In News, Ping Thingy, PingMaster, PKZip, Planet.Billboard, Planet.MP3Find, PMS, Powerzip 2000 Lite, ProtectX 3, ProxyChecker, Puzzle Master Demo
Q
QuadSucker/Web, Quadzle Puzzles, QuikLink Autobot, QuikLink Explorer, QuikLink Explorer Gold Edition, QuoteWatch, QuoTracker, QWallet
R
RahJongg Demo, Raptor Call of the Shadows Demo, Real Estate Web Site Creator, Recipe Review, ReGet, ReGet 1.6, Resume Detective, RingSurf, RoboCam 1.10, Rosemary's Weird Web World, RubberDuck H30+
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SaberQuest Page Burner, SafeNet Mail, SBJV, SBWcc, Scout's Game, ScreenFIRE, ScreenFIRE - FileKing, ScreenFlavors, Sea Battle, Shakespeare Punch, Shizzam, ShortKeys Lite, Simple Submit, SimpleFind, SimpleSubmit v1.0, Simplicity Personal Organizer, Site Select, SK-111, SL4 Historical Montage, Smart 'n Sticky, SmartBoard 200 FREE Edition, SmartDoc 3.0, SmartSum calculator, Sonic Mail, SonicMail, Sound Agent, Space Central Screen Saver, Speedy Eggbert Demo, Splash! Siterave, SSScanner, SSSiter, SSSpider, StartDrive, Star Miner Demo, Static FTP, StayOn Pro, StockBrowser, Stock Profit Spread Calculator 32, Subscriber, SunEdit 2K, Superball Challenge Demo, SuperIDE, Surf Saver, Sweep, SweepsWinner, System Agent
T
Tagger, TetriMania Master Demo, Text Transmogrifier, The Mapper, TheNet, TI-FindMail, TIFNY, Time Zone Converter, Tools 3.1, Total Finger, Total Whois, Tracking The Eye, Trade Site Creator, Trade Trakker, Tray Note Plus, TS-Image Mapper, Tunnel Blaster Demo, TWinExplorer Standard, TypeWriter 1.0
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uICE, UK Phone Codes
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Vagabond's Realm, VeriMP3, Vertigo QSearch, Virtual Access, Visual Cyberadio, Visual Surfer, VOG Backgammon Main, VOG Backgammon Table, VOG Chess Main, VOG Chess Table, VOG Reversi Main, VOG Reversi Table, VOG Shell, VOG Shell History
W
W3Filer, War Demo, Web-Cam VCR, Web Coupon, Web Page Authoring Software, Web Registrant PRO, Web Resume, WebStripper, Web SurfACE, WEB2SMS, WebCamVCR, WebCopier, Web-N-Force, WebSaver, Website Manager, WebStripper, WebType, Whitehouse Mambo Parody, WhizFolders Organizer, Whois, WhoIs Thingy, Win A Lotto, WinEdit 2000, Word+, Word Connect Demo, Word Search Mania Demo, Wordwright, WorldChat Client, Worm, Writing about Reading, Writing for Business, www.devgames.com
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xBlock
Y
Your ESP Test
Z
Zion, Zip Express 2000
SEGREDO - Na cultura da música eletrônica, tenta-se não cultuar o pop star, o artista-estrela, midiático. Desde os anos 70, com grupos como o Can e principalmente o Kraftwerk, no perído conhecido como kraut rock alemão (hoje chamado de prototechno), sempre se promoveu a "cultura do segredo", onde artistas mudavam de nome, inventavam pseudônimos para serem conhecidos apenas por sua arte, por seu som e seu conceito musical. Por trás dessa postura, o que se queria (e se quer, pois isso é bastante cultuado hoje) é destacar que essa música é de quem a manipula, de vários donos, uma música que sirva como eterno banco de dados, disponível para a manipulação, já que as ferramentas tecnológicas/digitais favorecem a proliferação de artistas sem grandes conhecimentos teóricos, porém com talento. Só quem circula na cena, ou pesquisa mais atentamente, consegue vincular o nome do dj, projeto ou produtor musical à uma determinada pessoa. Temos exemplos da "cultura do segredo" atuais como o H-Fundation, DJ Q, Get Fucked, Octave One, Hipp-e. Alguns se tornaram pop e seus nomes vêm logo à tona - como o Prodigy, Fat Boy Slim e o Chemical Brothers. Mas durante anos, os 4 integrantes Kraftwerk conseguiram se esconder e até nem davam entrevistas. A "cultura do segredo" também aparece sob outras formas: os famosos white labels (vinis sem identificação) que servem para serem testados nas pistas de dança, sem se saber
Gnutella Phex 0.5.3
Lançada a versão 0,5,3 do Phex, a melhor opção do gnutella multiplataforma, para os que acham o limewire "pesado" demais (qualquer coisa em java é pesada, mas o phex é "menos pesado que o limewire", saca?). Bem, exatamente um mês após o último lançamento do Phex, esta nova versão está disponível com grandes avanços na interface, no sistema de conexão, e na estabilidade, fazendo com que os usuários das versões anteriores sejam intimados a baixar agora esta nova versão :-)
OBS: Programas como o Phex mais indicados a usuários que não utilizam o M$ Windows, por ter sido programado em java, é multiplataforma, o que é bom. Mas qualquer coisa feita em java é pesada e consome muuuiiiiitttoo os recursos dos computadores. Desta forma, se vc usa windows, nada contra instalar o Phex, mas... nao antes de experimentar as últimas versões do gnucleus e gnOtella.
Lançada a versão 0,5,3 do Phex, a melhor opção do gnutella multiplataforma, para os que acham o limewire "pesado" demais (qualquer coisa em java é pesada, mas o phex é "menos pesado que o limewire", saca?). Bem, exatamente um mês após o último lançamento do Phex, esta nova versão está disponível com grandes avanços na interface, no sistema de conexão, e na estabilidade, fazendo com que os usuários das versões anteriores sejam intimados a baixar agora esta nova versão :-)
OBS: Programas como o Phex mais indicados a usuários que não utilizam o M$ Windows, por ter sido programado em java, é multiplataforma, o que é bom. Mas qualquer coisa feita em java é pesada e consome muuuiiiiitttoo os recursos dos computadores. Desta forma, se vc usa windows, nada contra instalar o Phex, mas... nao antes de experimentar as últimas versões do gnucleus e gnOtella.
Comuna
Gostaria de indicar um site que tem muito a ver com este e a todos os programas de troca de arquivos. Esse site tem o intuito de instigar um caráter crítico e questionador em todos. Difunde um ideal de igualdade e justiça social, onde cada ser humano possa nascer e crescer numa sociedade comunitária, igualitária, sem exploração do homem pelo homem. Isso não é uma utopia, e sim uma consequência do desenvolvimento da história humana. É uma necessidade. Lutemos, pois a história somos nós e nós podemos edificá-la em bases mais dignas e justas. Clique AQUI para visitar esse site.
Gostaria de indicar um site que tem muito a ver com este e a todos os programas de troca de arquivos. Esse site tem o intuito de instigar um caráter crítico e questionador em todos. Difunde um ideal de igualdade e justiça social, onde cada ser humano possa nascer e crescer numa sociedade comunitária, igualitária, sem exploração do homem pelo homem. Isso não é uma utopia, e sim uma consequência do desenvolvimento da história humana. É uma necessidade. Lutemos, pois a história somos nós e nós podemos edificá-la em bases mais dignas e justas. Clique AQUI para visitar esse site.
Grokster
Grokster
Surgiu um novo programa para acessar a rede criada pelo KaZaaaaaA e MusicCity Morpheus. Denominado Grokster, é destinado a troca de qualquer tipo de arquivo, tem características como o reinício de downloads interompidos (auto-resume), ajustes para permitir que os usuários limitem a quantidade de dados que entram e saem do micro, e muito mais. Este sistema é baseado na mesma tecnologia FastTrack P2P que a KaZaaaaaA e MusicCity Morpheus usam. Isto permitirá que os usuários de todos os três programas compartilhem os mesmos arquivos. Muito bom saber que estão surgindo novos programas para acessar essa rede, não rolando um monopólio do sistema.
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Surgiu um novo programa para acessar a rede criada pelo KaZaaaaaA e MusicCity Morpheus. Denominado Grokster, é destinado a troca de qualquer tipo de arquivo, tem características como o reinício de downloads interompidos (auto-resume), ajustes para permitir que os usuários limitem a quantidade de dados que entram e saem do micro, e muito mais. Este sistema é baseado na mesma tecnologia FastTrack P2P que a KaZaaaaaA e MusicCity Morpheus usam. Isto permitirá que os usuários de todos os três programas compartilhem os mesmos arquivos. Muito bom saber que estão surgindo novos programas para acessar essa rede, não rolando um monopólio do sistema.
Arquivos
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