plus: Smashmouth frontman co-founds a label. ISPs receiving requests to axe users. Morpheus. Your invitation to join liveDaily Briefly's street team.

Paul McCartney [ tickets ]'s office announced that McCartney and Heather Mills got engaged. They plan to marry sometime next year.

Destiny's Child, Monica and Liza Minelli have been added to the lineup for Michael Jackson [ tickets ]'s anniversary shows, Billboard reported.

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Smashmouth frontman Steve Harwell has co-founded Spun Out Records, Variety reported.

The label has reportedly signed "San Francisco-based pop-rock group Fuse, rap-rock outfit Triple Seven, metal act Soul Circle and pre-teen country-pop singer Brittany Breed."

ZDNet reported that, in the last few weeks, internet service providers (ISPs) have been receiving an increase in requests to shut out subscribers who use file-trading services like Gnutella and iMesh.

According to the article, "Driven by a combination of high-profile summer movie releases and a growth in the business of independent piracy hunters, these requests are putting service providers in an awkward position. Even as they avoid facing media-industry lawyers, these ISPs risk losing their customers to competing Internet access companies that may be less aggressive about curtailing the use of file-trading software."

Time.com columnist Chris Taylor sings the praises of Morpheus, perhaps the next big file-trading service for people who want whatever music they want, whenever they want it, and for free:

Like its namesake (Lawrence Fishburne's character in The Matrix), Morpheus has appeared almost out of nowhere to lead true believers into a different (and to some, terrifying) world. Here in Morpheus' private matrix, music files are free, easy to find, superfast to download. And unlike its doomed predecessor Napster, Morpheus is likely to escape the long arm of the Agents (a.k.a. music industry lawyers). In other words, it is The One.

... There's no off-putting server sign-on sequence like in the Gnutella programs. No lengthy process of scanning for music on your machine like Aimster makes you go through. Just a search page that returns results at a speed not seen since Napster. ...

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