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Sep 23 2001

Help Find A Cure For Cancer

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 I [...]

Sep 23 2001

URLBlaze V.2.2 is Out

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.

Sep 23 2001

Limewire Goes Open-Source

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 [...]

Sep 21 2001

File Sharing…A thing of the past…or the future?

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, [...]

Sep 21 2001

Zeropaid Thanks Xolox

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.

Sep 21 2001

How Will File Sharing Companies Make Money?

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 [...]

Sep 20 2001

Phosphor Going Global

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 capabilities
Hotlist support
Cross server [...]

Sep 19 2001

If Fasttrack gets closed down will anyone switch to opennap?

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 [...]

Sep 19 2001

Music City: We Can’t Stop Child Porn

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 [...]

Sep 19 2001

giFT

Check this out! I read about this on Slashdot and decided to look into it. giFT, which stands for “Generic Interface to Fast Track” is an open source project dedicated to reverse engineering the fast track network (kazaa, morpheus…). It was originally made for Linux but it is now including windows support. [...]

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  • Joe Bloe: I HOPE it is not dead....BUT it has been a long time and NO CHANGE TO THE SITE! So it well could be dead....
  • mountain_rage: To expect society to know what is and what isn't copyrighted is ridiculous, or even to expect everyone to know that a fi...
  • mountain_rage: Not yet, although if people pressure politicians enough to change copyright, it may happen. Many people are getting more...
  • gustav: Soulxtc, that may be a nice thought, but it's not the law....
  • gustav: The venues should just require original music and make the PRO's proove that they're having cover bands....
  • Infernoz: I would even share or sell her 'music', I can't stand the nihilistic trash. She is a deeply retarded, drugged up, le...
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