Just wanted to let all you Zeropaid Members what we’ve added two new features to the site. First, you must be logged in to get the full effect as usual. If you’re not a Member, click here. Next you’ll notice when you click on linked Members, you can post a comment to that user. Kinda [...]

ZDNet News report says that “A California woman has filed a lawsuit against an independent record label for embedding technology in CDs that blocks people from listening to songs on a computer.” Nice!

A bunch of people wrote in regarding this Wired.com report about a new bill in front of congress. “Music and record industry lobbyists are quietly readying an all-out assault on Congress this fall in hopes of dramatically rewriting copyright laws. With the help of Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, [...]

A Brad King orignal Wired.com report says that Napster “has set aside $4 million to pay the Association of Independent Music (AIM), an organization representing indie music labels in England, according to sources familiar with the situation.” I’m not sure what Napster’s game plan is here, since “much of the music from AIM’s independent labels [...]

Socks2HTTP is an agent converting SOCKS v.5 requests into HTTP requests and tunneling them through HTTP proxy. SOCKS allows programs to traverse firewalls on any port number and is used by many popular programs, like Napster, MSN Messenger, CRT(telnet client) and many others. Many schools/businesses restrict firewall traversals only to HTTP requests, disabling SOCKS proxy. [...]

With all these P2P Programs to download for free I just don’t see how someone can charge for music anymore. I mean there’s 45 of them here just for windows. There’s no format that can’t be ripped, and no encryption that can’t be cracked. Even if the RIAA or MPAA DO wake up and offer [...]

AG Gold Info Page With this new offer, it makes you wonder: is AG starting to go the way of Napster, or is this a spin on the “support your site” donations we’ve seen before? Is it worth the payment and the effort? Only the filesharing audience will know for sure if they’re willing to [...]

Huge improvements in the latest version of URLBlaze. URLBlaze V.2, harness the power of many search engines (Filemirrors.com, Gozillasearch.com, many ftp sites and MP3 sites) to deliver you the best results. UB does a parallel search on its online P2P URL sharing community as well as on many major search engines. Before delivering a link, [...]

It appears that some of the most common hostcatchers have disappeared. This was pretty problematic for Phex users as these hosts were hardcoded into Phex as default connection points. So we put up this new release quickly to make Phex instantly usable again with a whole new set of default hosts. But there is more [...]

A reuters report, found on iwon.com, saying “Free music downloading is hotter than ever, said researchers on Thursday who found more than 3 billion files were downloaded on four leading file-swapping services in August, topping Napster at its peak.” It counts a broad swath of applications with this survey, including FastTrack, Audiogalaxy, iMesh and Gnutella. [...]

BearShare 2.3.0 Beta 9 was realased for testing purposes only so its not ment for the general user. Besides having a huge GUI improvement from the shipping version, mp3 metadata and saved column settings Beta 9 is different in that it uses a special gnutella service provider. This is needed because this beta must be [...]

SiliconValley.com has an article on the successor’s to Napster’s “throne,” if it can be called that anymore. The make reference to KaZaA, and its Fasttrack network. The also touch on gnutella, and give some interesting figures: “Traffic on Fasttrack … has exploded to the point where more than 600,000 users now log on during peak [...]

News.com reports on the continuing efforts of the recording industry to limit what you can do with music that you own. Cactus Data Shield attempts to stop potential pirates from illegally distributing music files across the internet. Midbar plans on releasing 3 different versions of the secure CDs: CDS-100 plays on normal CD players, CDS-200 [...]

Heres what FC posted about Aimster which may be in trouble, FuckedCompany is usually right on the money with these kind of things. “Rumor has it Aimster, the filesharing app that piggybacks on AOL’s Instant Messenger, is almost outta money. Once hailed as the best alternative to Napster, maybe next time they should try a [...]

FileNavigator has just released version 2.8. It includes many bug fixes, and a few extra features. We also released FileNavigator Builder 1.0. It allows anyone to create a custom version of filenavigator. You can change the icons, the application name, and the home page that it visits whe it first starts up. Most importantly it [...]

New server software for The Qube is really fun for running your own server. You can now customize it even more to be unique. Kick users for sharing porno or just being idiots! Now requires less memory and less bandwidth. If you have a broadband connection, download here.

The story was just broke that Hewlett-Packard will acquire Compaq Computer for $25 billion. The deal would create the second largest computer company second to only IBM. Read the News.com story or the New York Times story. Yes I know about the registration for the New York Times but it’s free so just sign up [...]

A while ago some person posted a message about Mind Link, well I’ve been following it for a while now and It’s just become Open-source. Check it out at www.mindlink.f2s.com This gives us the change to create a P2P program the way we want it.

That’s right y’all, we got some new merchandise. Check it out, we have new designs for short sleeve t-shirts, long sleeves, girlie baby t’s, messenger bags, and even boxer shorts. So support your favorite file-sharing website, and get some cool gear to boot. Check out the whole store.

Go to Shields Up and they will hook you up with all sorts of strategies for protecting yourself from hackers, for FREE. Also, you can go to CNet and get Zone Alarm Firewall, one of the best firewalls around, for FREE. If your looking for a program to remove all the spyware that your computer [...]