So much negativity has been focused on downloading of music, videos, and games being illegal or how the sites that offer these downloading options come with spyware or adware.  With technology being as it is today with MP’s and IPOD’s, downloading is at everlasting high.  Now there is a site,  Ares, a peer-to-peer (P2P) site [...]

Many programs to download music have struggled with the new security systems utilized by Microsoft in their Windows Vista software. These security features blocked the normal operation of filesharing programs and rendered the download of music and other files completely impossible. Fortunately, some quick thinking software developers quickly spotted this potential problem and released Ares [...]

EU Data Protection Chief Slams Secret ACTA Talks IDG News Service The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) being negotiated in secret by the U.S., E.U. and others potentially runs roughshod over European data protection requirements, European data protection supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx said Monday. “Intellectual property is important to society and must be protected [but] it [...]

  A new version of the corporate entertainment industry’s Three Strikes ‘law’ is slated to hit the New Zealand parliament today. The Hollywood and Big Music Three Strikes and you’re Off The Net scheme is “being introduced as locally proposed legislation by governments in countries such as the UK and France”, said p2pnet in a [...]

 Malone University president Gary W. Streit (right) “immediately”  retired following “concerns” that he’d used plagiarised materials in some of his speeches. Because he’s retired, there would “really be no point” to an investigation of the plagiarism accusations, the Chronicle of Higher Education has Malone spokeswoman Suzanne Thomas stating. “Ms. Thomas said Malone’s Board of Trustees [...]

The RIAA is denying rumours that Marlon Brando will play RIAA spinster-in-chief Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol (right) in the forthcoming Hollywood adaptation of  Steve Knopper’s book ‘Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age’. “Marlon Brando is dead”, explained spokeswoman Cara Duckworth. “We understand Jack Nicholson has been signed [...]

 “You are kidding me right? Lanxiang Vocational school takes in highschool dropouts and give them semi-skilled labor training (go look at their course offering – auto repair, CNC operation, computer operation, excavator operation, welding, culinary school, cosmetology, electronics repair).” That was p2pnet reader ChasL in a Reader’s Write, last Friday, on the news the hack [...]

Apple Gets Strict on Adult Apps Daily Tech Anyone who uses an iPhone and has perused the most popular apps on the free side of the App Store has likely noticed that many of them most popular apps are adult in nature. For a long time Apple would not allow adult or pornographic apps onto [...]

“Gleefully snarky American Idol judge Simon Cowell notes that his first insult was directed at his own mother when he was only 4″, says People. He apparently told his mother her white pillbox hat “made her look like a poodle” —- and has never looked back. Now he’s horning in on the Three Strikes farce [...]

For many moons one of the most persistent, and sometimes offensive, trolls spamming Big Music junque on p2pnet was Sam I Am, a copyright enthusiast who nonetheless didn’t hesitate to repeatedly infringe the name Sam I Am, a character created by American writer and cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr Seuss. Not that I seriously [...]