This article was posted on The Screen Savers website. Written By Megan Morrone. This isn’t about filesharing but I personally feel that we should feel good about donating extra CPU cycles. Hope we all download this. “Last July I received an email from Matt. He wrote: Here’s a quite noble Download of the Day that [...]

URLBlaze V.2.2 is released. Several neat features were added: 1) MUCH faster search result on the multi-search system. 2) See what other people are searching for online. 3) Copy/Paste URLs. 4) Much more search results and more… Try this freeware now.

From Gnutellanews.com:LimeWire announced that they’ve open-sourced the LimeWire codebase under the Gnu Public License (GPL). Java source code and documentation is now available from their new website dedicated to Gnutella and LimeWire development at http://www.limewire.org/. LimeWire, which is one of the leading developers of the Gnutella protocol, decided to open-source their codebase in order to [...]

Is file sharing as we know it over? I doubt it, I think it can only get better with time. A.L.I.C.E is an artificial intelligent chatbot that might soon help us file sharers out. Imagine being able to not know the title of a song but the computer knows; then finds the song, downloads it, [...]

Recently, several Zeropaid Members informed us that the popular gnutella file sharing client Xolox has placed a link to Zeropaid.com on its opening screen. We would like to thank the Xolox development team for their support and providing the file sharing community with such a resourceful gnutella client. Post your thoughts on Xolox here.

A News.com report points out something maybe we dont want to think about – the financial future of the companies who provide file-sharing clients. If they don’t even have enough money to survive, how are they coing to fight the inevitable lawsuits from the recording industry? Also some cool downloads numbers in this article, according [...]

Phosphor 1.2 has been released. This is the first non-beta release. Phosphor’s architecture is similar to opennap and napigator, but gets rid of the many limitations inherent in napster. Features include: Works on all systems with Java (e.g. Windows and Unix) Share any file type: music, video, applications Advanced search options for accurate results Chat [...]

File-sharing programs that use fancy technology like fasttrack which powers morpheus/kaZaA/grokster, is good you have to admit,but what about open-nap?mabye it is slow but will it ever be prone to the riaa? mabye not because people that run the servers are’nt working for a company they’re kids even..i run an open-nap server, i aint been [...]

From a Newsbytes report: “Responding to complaints that the service has become a haven for child pornographers, operators of Music City, a leading alternative to Napster, said they are unable to stop the trading of illegal photos and videos.” They also talk about our very own Jorge, saying “Last year, a Gnutella fan named Jorge [...]

Bearshare 2.3.0 was released today. This one is the best release of Bearshare to date. Their are tons of new features too many to list. Some of the major new features are drop down searches, displaying of mp3 bitrate in search results of programs that support it, saving of column width, faster host connections, improved [...]

New XoloX version released. Changes in v1.12 Duplicate packets on Gnutella connections are measured. Connections are dropped when they reach more then 100 dups in 30 sec. Downloadhosts with local IP numbers are pushed immediately. (older versions tried to reach them directly first). LocalIP numbers are not added to the gnutella client hostlist. This will [...]

This little friend of yours and mine pops up and talks to you from your computer speakers! You have to see it to believe it, so download and check it out: http://www.zeropaid.com/theqube/ Users 10:0 love him!

A couple of readers have wrote in about the record industry’s twin ventures into online music, PressPlay and MusicNet. One user writes, “The official record industry music download services have annouced they are ready for business. But business has changed in the wake of the WTC tragedy and if these services want to be viable [...]

More and more File Sharing companies are following Napster’s example and attempting to charge for downloading services. For example, Audiogalaxy, my favorite mp3 downloading service until now, just announced Audiogalaxy Gold, a $3 a month plan which allows Audiogalaxy members exclusive access to faster servers and a better satellite that sets up downloads faster. Around [...]

Wanafile is an older application that has 30,361 registered users. It was available back in Napster’s day but was pulled back due to some copyright problems. According the website, “WANAFILE SERVERS ARE DOWN DURING COMPANY CREATION FOR LEGAL PURPOSE (will reopen before September 15th, with a new enhanced version) ! =>you can register your mail [...]

Spyware I feel is one of the worst threats of privacy on the computer world. Using popular programs such as Kazaa can give Spyware companies a heads-up on what your looking at. Is there a way to combat this? Yes, of course there is. Try Lavasoft’s Adaware. I’m sure some of you have heard of [...]

Check out Gnucleus (yeah, we finally added it) and all its new features: “We continue to make Gnucleus a simpler program to use and at the same time more powerful for advanced gnutella users. 1.4 has been under development for some time now and it’s finally ready for public release. This release adds all the [...]

SonicBlue announces the release of two new MP3/CD players which will complement the original Rio Volt SP100. These new Rio Volts, the $179 SP250 and the $99 SP90, will bookend the SP100 in both price and features. Details here.

This isn’t file-sharing news, but affects all of us on a much more profound level. Read Yahoo’s coverage of the events here. In light of this tragedy, our differences seem so inconsequential. I don’t really know what to say here, this has all been so shocking. Thanks also to all the people who wrote in [...]

If you have been playing around with ripping CD tracks into the mp3Pro format, today RCA released a plug-in for Winamp that allows you to now listen to those tunes on that player. The article includes a link to download the plug-in.