Rearchers recently found that SETI@Home performs best on Windows NT with the command-line client. Next came Linux with the command-line client. In last place is Windows 98SE with the graphical client.

The New York Times has an article on distributing computing companies paying users for running their clients.

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.

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.

In his Crypto-Gram today, Bruce Schneier writes that bits are inherently copyable. Trying to make them not so is like trying to make water not wet. "All digital copy protection schemes can be broken, and once they are, the breaks will be distributed...law or no law." Want to learn more about DRM? Read Lucas Gonze's DRM entry in the <decent> MemeBag.

The Register's take on the French telecom's buy into Jabber suggests that presence is more important than chat.

Damien Stolarz of the P2P Working Group reports that Universal Plug and Play Forum is finalizing work on a means for applications to traverse NATs.

Webnoize reports that Napster downloads fell 36% in April; a mere 1.6 billion MP3s changed hands. That number was 2.8 billion in February.

The Cult of the Dead Cow -- the folks that brought you Back Orifice -- plan to unleash a P2P-oriented program called Peekabooty at Defcon in July. Peekabooty is intended to allow users in repressive countries to access content that might otherwise be blocked by authorities. Content could be transferred between Peekabooty clients in an encrypted form. But it seems like systems like Freenet, Publius and Free Haven are already tackling the same space, so what does Peekaboot do that existing systems don't? CDC members, drop us a line.

If Bill Joy's keynote at the O'Reilly P2P Conference left you unsure exactly what Sun's Project Juxtapose is, you'll definitely want to tune into the webcast of the JXTA launch. Joy and John Gage, Sun's chief researcher, as well as a number of P2P innovators working with JXTA, will unveil the P2P framework Wednesday, April 25, at 11:00 am. After watching the webcast, head back to OpenP2P.com for our in-depth coverage and analysis of JXTA's position.