News.com report: “America Online has released a new version of its ICQ instant messenger, its first facelift of the service in a year. The ICQ 2001b Beta v5.15, released Tuesday, offers a new file-sharing function that enables people to swap directories with their ICQ buddies, a two-way messaging feature with cell phones, multilingual support, a [...]

Wired.com is running an article on how Intel is using its own P2P network to transfer files to and from employess to cut costs. By using a P2P network to transfer files, Intel claims costs have decreased significantly.

Napster has delayed the release of their new service until at least the first quarter of next year, after they were telling us it would be ready this June (it’s now the end of October for those of you that don’t know). Just giving all of us another reason to download more music. Long live [...]

With the recent lawsuits against Fasttrack and with Audiogalaxy to be next, it looks like gnutella is the next best alternative. It is the only true P2P network in which anybody can make a client, which virtually makes it impossible to stop. New gnutella clients are being developed all the time, recently XoloX and swapnut [...]

The reponse to a Billboard.com article is from the RIAA on their attempts to get a provision tacked on to the USA Act that wouldnt make them liable if they hacked PC users in order to delete files off their hard drive. Now the RIAA is denying the entire thing saying, “RIAA never lobbied Congress [...]

I recently downloaded Qtrax and I must say it’s awful! There is no way to change what folders get shared, no options, no help, or no contact us on the Qtrax site or inside the program. A recent member article on ZP.com called it “the best P2P file sharing program”. In my opinion use SongSpy [...]

A new program called File Spree (was File Leech) has been released with a new version and is now available again on Downloads.com This is by far the best Client/Server program getting rid of Hotline because of its ease of use, and no spyware or ads. There’s now resume, uploading to folder the server chooses, [...]

FEATURES is not the most important factor when deciding which client to chose. The most important feature is STABILITY. The quality of the Gnutella clients is very variable. I’ve been trying some of them but not all. Here’s my list: 1. Gnotella. Got a tendency to freeze, but I’ve never experienced any crashes. Can run [...]

It looks like the outcry from the tech community has been heard. The Senate Commerce Committee postponed Friday’s hearings on the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act based on the heavy opposition it received. Senator Fritz Hollings, who sponsored the bill, has indicated it will be retooled before the hearings are rescheduled.

On Audiogalaxy, one of the most popular file sharing services today, several members have been receiving very violent death threats. Most of these have been by a user who goes by the name J_lethal. The management of Audiogalaxy has been notified about these obviously illegal actions and yet has done nothing. The target of the [...]

Frost, which is available for Windows and Linux, makes Freenet much easier to use. It uses a Morpheus/Napster/etc. style interface to allow users to search, download, and upload files. It even has a Usenet style message board system to boot.

Okay, again there is a poll running on Gnutellaforums about which client is “best”. For sure we know that all gnutella clients build together a kind of community, but maybe you want to show which client you use and is best for you. Click here to vote.

I am making a new improved Qube client for “The Qube Network” that is very similar to Xolox, so people can enjoy simplicity on both networks. If anyone is interested in testing the beta, click here

Hi everyone, I can’t be bothered to sign up today so i’m just gonna post this message. I would like to say that the best P2P sharing program is either Xolox or one not listed her called Q Trax which has excellent search capabilities and is very quick when downloading compared to the likes of [...]

Ed Halley puts forth his arguments against the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, a bill which would force all consumer electronic devices including e-books, DVDs, computers and cell phones to embed copy-protection technology.

Yahoo is running an interesting story on retail chain TARGET, and a decision they have put forward to the RIAA to stop selling cd singles in 200 of its stores, due to a 39.5% drop in sales. Napster gets a mention as one of the causes for this… the quality of the product also gets [...]

Recently Zeropaid was introduced to a cool new MP3 management tool called MoodLogic, now normally we don’t include non file sharing programs to our list but MoodLogic is different. MoodLogic organizes, updates ID3 tags and can organize/play tunes to a specific mood. MoodLogic is still in beta (testing), but very advanced in its current stage. [...]

A News.com Reuters report says: “The hour new anti-terrorism legislation becomes law, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday that he would direct all U.S. prosecutors and FBI offices to immediately use their expanded powers to wiretap phones, monitor Internet traffic and apprehend suspects.” While not directly threatening to anyone not wearing a towel on their [...]

A new software product, Acceloop Multimedia Booster, developed by Acceloop, enhances and accelerates the delivery of video, webcasts, large music files, games, flash and other multimedia formats, saving significant bandwidth costs. Multimedia Booster enables users to recover from multimedia delivery failures, even after disconnection periods, using a special auto-recovery mechanism. Multimedia content delivery is accelerated [...]

Have a look at this article about Xolox from ABC News. XoloX now has a forum on Zeropaid for all the newbies to check out. To visit the XoloX forum, click here