Social community has long been part of P2P. It was in Napster 1.0 and fully one half of Aimster. Today many P2P clients contain chat, IM, and VoIP. But it's always been a secondary feature....

Big Brother is Watching. The EFF announced that many color laser printers add tiny tracking dots that encode the printer's serial number. The hidden pattern is revealed with a blue light,...

Someone didn't get the memo. MP3DownloadCity.com was sued for claiming P2P is 100% legal and its members could not be sued for copyright infringement. The FTC seeks permanent removal of the lies,...

It's been six months since the Supreme Court ruling, during which time Kazaa was kablammed Down Under and the music biz became more aggressive with cease and desist letters to major P2P...

In Capitol Hill testimony MetaMachine President Sam Yagan, developer of eDonkey, annouced he is exiting the P2P business in compliance with a Cease & Desist letter from the entertainment industry...

The First Annual P2P Litigation Summit on November 3 is sponsored by the EFF and Privacy Solutions and Attorney Charles Lee Mudd. Excellent agenda has a little bit of everything. A presentation from a...

ZDNet writer David Berlind declares a Declaration of InDRMpendence. He exposes the many problems with the Trojan Horse called DRM, which he calls Digital Restriction Management, for legal file use,...

MusicGiants encodes music at up to 1,100Kbps compared to 128-256KBps for typical consumer and commercial digital music encoding (BusinessWeek). Pricing is $1.29 for singles and $15.29 for a CD,...

Hollywood has changed the battleground to the FCC. Susan Crawford writes about the entertainment biz's end around Congress and courts to gain control of the home through the FCC. I can only hope...