Posted on 17 June 2008 by mike.
The Times newspaper recently documented that the average student has about 800 illegal music files on his or her hard drive, most gained through P2P filesharing services, such as Limewire. Other files come from swapping music with friends or family.
Given that MP3 players usually hold about 1,500 or so songs, you start to see that [...]
Posted on 17 June 2008 by Iownmymusic.
I decided that it was time to retire my old version of Ares Galaxy and pick up one of the newer — and better — version of Ares. I hadn’t been a position where I needed to download Ares for some years now, so I was essentially new to the area.
I’d been on the Official [...]
Posted on 16 June 2008 by Iownmymusic.
We had no idea that Fergal “Teenage Kicks” Sharkey had a blog, but he does, over at the Guardian website. Fantastic. In his latest post, Sharkey says that a recent survey of 14-to-24-year-olds in the UK revealed that 63% use filesharing services to download music.
Those surveyed said that they love music and that they do [...]
Posted on 14 June 2008 by Iownmymusic.
Rogers Cable, Canada’s largest ISP, recently held a press conference to dispel a few myths about how it shapes its bandwidth with regards to people using filesharing networks.
A spokesperson from Rogers said that the ISP does not block filesharing traffic. Rather, it controls the traffic when it is uploading data. Apparently, many people are unaware [...]
Posted on 13 June 2008 by mike.
Nothing makes me more frustrating than when something works so well for so many years (Ares Galaxy) stops working. The problem? It seems that there’s an issue with Ares not connecting properly when it starts up. Argh!
Ares not connecting means that it takes a lot of time and effort to get up and running in [...]
Posted on 12 June 2008 by Iownmymusic.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently gave a demo of its new method for hunting down people suspected of downloading copyrighted material through filesharing services and other such means. This new method specifically targets students who have been using filesharing services to share music they shouldn’t have been.
The infamous Media Sentry, the RIAA’s [...]
Posted on 11 June 2008 by mike.
I found a great site a few months ago while I was looking around the web for a new version of the Ares P2P filesharing software. I found this site, got a fantastic Ares download, and was very pleased with myself.
A coupe of days ago I had to reformat my computer (well, I had to [...]
Posted on 11 June 2008 by mike.
Most users of filesharing services are aware of the dangers involved in downloading files. However, how much thought is actually given to the harm that files can do to your computer? McAfee has announced that the world is currently experiencing the most significant malware outbreak in three years.
There have been half a million detections of [...]
Posted on 9 June 2008 by Iownmymusic.
Comcast’s recent attempts at reconciliation with the filesharing crowd have been hindered somewhat this week after three fresh lawsuits were filed against the company. This time, the lawsuits allege that Comcast deliberately misled customers by advertising completely unrestricted access to all of the Internet.
This is the latest in a series of complaints against Comcast, which [...]
Posted on 7 June 2008 by Iownmymusic.
Interesting news from Great Britain this week. To our knowledge, this is the first initiative of its kind. Filesharing is a common way of getting free music downloads in Great Britain, but this new plan may deter a few people. Although legal action won’t be taken in this particular case, subscribers to Virgin Media’s broadband [...]
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