Things are starting to look extremely grim for the future of file sharing “A week after filing a lawsuit against three file-swapping services, sources indicate the RIAA will file a lawsuit against at least one other company involved in online digital music trading.” the company in question being AudioGalaxy.

Another story by the Register concerns BT,the UK’s major telco admitting to restricting bandwidth for peer-to-peer applications such as Gnutella, eDonkey and Kazaa.At the moment this seems to be a problem only in the UK,but you never know…..

Just a quick pointer to a story concerning P2P found at the Register. One the more worrying quotes in the article is this from Sony Music Entertainment’s Steve Heckler: “Once consumers can no longer get free music, they will have to buy the music in the formats we choose to put out.” You have been [...]

Interesting article on why the addition of copy protection on music CDs may backfire against the record industry by giving Napster clones a competitive advantage.

The BlackNap network has plans to become a really a big network like The SearchNap network, you may have noticed they about 10 servers up at the same time! BlackNap has only got 3 servers in the network but plans are to look for servers which have just started off running and servers marked n/a. [...]

Pretty kewl. Lots of new features, and updated ones, for example, there is a brand new, awesome cd-ripper. Download Here: http://www.zeropaid.com/theqube/

It obvious that the next big file sharing program will have to have a few standard options. (1) Decentralized servers (2) Security (so the RIAA & MPAA can’t sue the indivuals that run the network. AKA the users)(3) Mutli – Host downloads (4) Simultaneous uploading and downloading, etc. But here are a few more things [...]

The BlackNap network has been around for a while, first it was owned by gard my mate then he deleted it, then i took over.When i first started off using SlavaNap i owned Music_City network i had a few servers but they were never up , So i decided to talk to gard and see [...]

We have updated the Top Programs page to allow users to sort and easily navigate through our delicious p2p menu. We currently have 60 File Sharing programs to choose from so make sure to bookmark this page and stop by again. Feel free to give us any feedback.

I already posted a news about Taxee, which was previously released in french. Taxee is now available in english. It’s all about chat and file-sharing, and important, it’s beta. There are few people online for the moment. Just take a look at it if you have few moment. The link for Taxee 0.4.3. Tip : [...]

Ever wonder what you, lonely file trader, can do to relinquish your frustration at life on the scum sucking media whores of the world? Maybe you just want to have fun, maybe you just hate everything… well I have a solution… most file downloading, at least in my domain, takes on more of the form [...]

New version of URLBlaze is out. The new version features some improvements: 1) Clearer search results and you can view the file names easily by hovering over the URLs 2) You can email links you find to your friends from the program by right clicking on the link. 3) Some memory usage improvements. ownload this [...]

Well, it finally happened. News.com is reporting on the lawsuit, and goes in-depth on the details of the FastTrack organization. It also points out potential problems with the suit, not the least of which is that FastTrack is headquartered in Amsterdam. They also point out that “The companies involved have said that even if they [...]

It seems that giFT,the open source version of Fastracks KaZaA/Morheus/Grokster has been broken,it seems that the official Fastrack clients are not as de-centralized as they’d have us think.

A Yahoo News report: “A broad coalition of entertainment companies, advertisers and sports leagues will descend on Capitol Hill Monday, seeking to strike down legislation requiring music labels to offer the same licensing deal at the same price to all online music ventures.” The “entertainment companies” they speak of are the same ones that pushed [...]