Analyst Andrea Rice of Deutsche Banc. Alex. Brown in San Francisco sounded off at the P2P Working Group meeting about how to secure venture funding.

Well, maybe not. But it sure seems they've sued everybody else involved in music technology after looking at the names that they have filed lawsuits against.

Civic duty, not anonymity, is the core of Freenet.

Wireless technology finally gets some good news, as Compaq's Evo will bring 802.11b and Bluetooth as a standard feature to their laptops.

Groove is laying off 19 people, 8% of the workforce. The company will focus on larger companies, moving away from small- and medium-sized businesses.

Mac OS X is finally developing into a leading user interface.

The ridiculously minimalist BadBlue web server flies under the radar.

Vivendi Universal bought MP3.com, it was announced today for $372 million. The buy-out comes mere days after the two companies faced off at congressional hearings on music publishing rights. At the hearings, Real's Rob Glaser demo'd MusicNet, the competing service to Universal and Sony's Duet.

Whatever investors think of open source, peer to peer developers have embraced it. The early success of Jxta shows why.

In the context of a web of trust, it takes linguistic gyration to make the word "trust" useful. The reason it does get used is historical -- these ideas came out of the security community. But in a modern context the word "trust" is either is so vague that it's useless or is outright misleading.