In a recent CNN.com news article, they explain how file-sharing programs are being used by teens to access and download pornography over the web. After Napsters downfall, people have been downloading MusicCity’s Morpheus where “porn” is easy to get a hold off! What do you think about the current state of file sharing? Should it [...]

XoloX is proud to announce the most advanced and easiest peer-to-peer filesharing application currently available. As of today version 1.07 of XoloX is released. The aim of XoloX is to combine Napster’s ease-of-use with the reliability of download managers like Go!zilla. This allows even inexperienced computer-users to exchange their creations (mp3’s, movies, applications, etc.) in [...]

An interesting article, especially for those using KaZaa. From the article: “If you haven’t caught up with this topic yet, prepare to be horrified. When I checked CNet’s Download.com this week, eZula’s KaZaa had been downloaded 7.4 million times. Many of the 7.4 million people who downloaded KaZaa – a Napster-like file-sharing tool – apparently [...]

Check out this report on the evolution of the internet, from free-wheeling anarchy to a safe business environment and back again. The author goes on very eloquently about large corporations and their involvement in the internet. “Comparable to the indices of banned books created by the Catholic church in an attempt to maintain its monopoly, [...]

Well, duh. Whay pay when you can be Zeropaid? A report on News.com says “Consumers have not accepted purchasing and downloading music via the Web and are not likely to change with the new services being developed by the recording industry.” Now, remember, when these new services come out, what are you gonna do? Pay [...]

BadBlue is a small-footprint Win32 web server that supports peer-to-peer file sharing. The new version can use private or public IRC servers (which you can define) to identify friendly peers. With its powerful web serving features, BadBlue is perfect for web development and deployment with its full-featured support of tools like CGI, ISAPI and PHP. [...]

Alberg Software Inc announces the launch of HIVE® 1.0 Beta. An Enterprise P2P platform for developing new, collaborative applications based on the JXTA P2P platform. It also has a suite of tools and components to complete the process of Enterprise Business Management. What sets HIVE apart, and makes them interesting from a distributed standpoint, is [...]

Wired.com reports good news for college students: “College students intent on sharing music and movie files over the Internet are in for a surprise when they return to school — they’ll have fewer restrictions on their swapping.” Fun fun so in between getting seriously drunk and abusing sorority girls, college kids can download music!

Just found a interesting Gnutella client called XoloX that hopefully should give Bearshare, LimeWire and all the others something to think about. The most outstanding feature of this program is the ability to download a single file from multiple users at the same time aka KaZaA/Morpheus,a first for the Gnutella network. Check it out here.

A new version of edonkey2000 has been released, fixing a number of bugs and adding several new features. A minor memory leak has been fixed insuring improved performance. A new chat feature has also been added to the features list, allowing edonkey2000 users to chat over IRC anywhere in the world. edonkey2000 also offers a [...]

This story at shift talks about shift, Freenet, Espra and a bunch of other things that are going to keep the RIAA and the MPAA out of everyone’s hair. According to the article, it all boils down to human rights and the fact that according to the United Nations it is a basic human right [...]

Microsoft announced on Friday that that the “final code” for Windows XP — the new version of the operating system that everyone loves to hate — is complete, and will be sent to computer manufacturers immediately. Yes it is really as evil as people say and this story explains some of it including the Xp [...]

News.com has an interesting article on file sharing progrmas that are owned by companies outside the United States. International file sharing companies are “already meeting their own legal resistance–led in many areas by the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), an organization that is slowly gaining new prominence in the industry’s global fight to quash [...]

Hello Zeropaid.com users! As author of one of the newest file sharing networks and the founder of the company QubeNetworks, I am pleased to announce that I have completed betas of my upcoming music format, QNA. You can convert and encode ordinary MP3 and WMA files to the QNA format without loosing quality, but encoding [...]

ZNet UK is reporting that “The company is scanning its customers’ Internet activity and says it will terminate the accounts of those users who are downloading pirated material.” Also related to this article on Salon about a user whose account was suspended by Time Warner Cable for allegedly posting a movie to usenet. Whatever happened [...]

Seems there is a new filtering program thatll be out in September which will not only filter you from seeing porn and anything else you type in but it has a option to prevent others on networks like gnutella from searching for porn or anything else. BTW to the fasttrack programs users out there iv’ed [...]

Jack Valenti the legendary 79-year-old lobbyist, a veteran of the Johnson White House and head of the Motion Picture Association of America, said Tuesday that before films will be available for anyone with fast connections to download online, strong copy-protection technology will be necessary. This is pretty funny to watch this old guy show that [...]

Hey Guys, a new version of URLBlaze is out. This one features faster connection to the Internet, auto launch/connect at startup and even better memory usage. The number of URLBlaze users is growing fast but still need much more to fulfill its goal as the safest and fastest way to share files. Currently URLBlaze doesn’t [...]

The European Commission said last Friday that it is ending an investigation into whether the world’s five biggest music companies were colluding with retailers over the price of CDs sold in the European Union. I think they should have continued since the record companies have been price fixing since audio cds are costing as much [...]