A new Version of Phex has been released: – Improved configuration of your download. – Completly rewritten automatic search framework. – Gnutella Protocol v0.6 support. – Automatic check for new Phex versions. There is also a new homepage: http://phex.kouk.de/

A News.com report says “The National Music Publisher’s Association (NMPA), which represents the owners of most songs published in the United States, said its suit, filed in Los Angeles federal court, charges file-swapping services MusicCity, Grokster and Empowerment with copyright infringement. Interesting how no one has touched a gnutella client yet. Maybe because the protocol [...]

I found this article on dslreports.com that says a man was able to fit 20 dvd’s on one cd-r without any loss of quality. Now the article wasn’t written in english but a couple people have translated this. Imagine the possibilities if this is true. This is the dslreports.com article and forum. This is the [...]

With the recent release of Harry Potter to the movie theaters, it has subsequently shown up on some of the most notible file-sharing systems such as BearShare and Limewire. People have been flocking to download these bootlegs, which has caused a bottle-neck and most hosts are usually busy… So most likely you won’t be able [...]

News.com report says “Complaints about anti-copying technology on Natalie Imbruglia’s latest CD have forced her record label to issue replacements for angry consumers–another setback for the music industry’s stuttering campaign against record piracy.” *cheer* *cheer*

Vivendi Universal announced in a press release today that it is consolidating its Web properties into a single entity to be called Vivendi Universal Net USA Group. The new division will report to the company’s Paris-based Internet division Vivendi Universal Net and includes; MP3.com, EMusic.com, Get Music.com, RollingStone.com, InsideSessions.com, and several game, education, and entertainment [...]

This is an update (yes I know it’s 19 days old) from the Limewire.org site which basically gives there status on the Limewire client and it’s future features. I don’t particularly like ad/spyware, but you have to admit, Limewire’s structure is paying off. That’s the advantage of having a popular open source client. They are [...]

BearShare is the new RAVE! It will obviously gain many users soon. It is the best alternative to fasttrack. Gnutella is huge and has every file you can think of! BearShare is the best program to access this wealth of files. Things are even getting better as we speak! Vinnie is currently working on major [...]

Lime Wire LLC proudly announces the release of LimeWire 1.8b. Version 1.8b is a bugfix release with the following fixes: System tray now works on Win98 No longer returns any erroneous results to rich queries Schema can’t cause wrong value to be displayed in first column Chat menu is not always enabled for unchattable hosts [...]

According to this story,in December

“Worldwide portable digital music player unit shipments will grow from 2.4 million in 2000 to over 9 million in 2005″. That from a report released yesterday by Cahners In-Stat showing that the digital music player industry will triple its market foothold over the next four years. The popularity of of peer-to-peer file sharing applications like [...]

A News.com report talks about the new Harry Potter movie and how there are fake copies circulating around on Morpheus and LimeWire. To me, this begs the question “Who would fake content?” I would think that the only people with a vested interest in polluting content would be trade organizations like the RIAA or MPAA. [...]

Wired has a story about Aimster’s new subscription service called Club Aimster which promises quicker connections and downloads for those who pay the 5 bucks a month. I doubt many people will sign up. Why pay for quicker downloads when you can just use a different program that does the same thing.

Recent news about LimeWire bundling Adware/Spyware with the latest release (1.8) has started a Spyware backlash among many gnutella/LimeWire users. LimeWire contends that “we need to pay developer’s salaries–like mine–to keep driving innovation on the Gnutella network.” and on top of all that LimeWire claims “Bandwidth alone from www.limewire.com, www.limewire.org, and router.limewire.com is around $10,000 [...]

When the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) proposed SoundExchange, a new agency they set up to collect royalty fees for digital broadcasts under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), artists were up in arms. They had good reason, as the original plan had the artist’s record label as the conduit to disperse funds. The [...]

Check out Fat Chuck’s list of protected CDs that “can’t be played on PCs or ripped.” Will this CD really play on my equipment?“. Visit CDFreaks.com for an informative article titled: “SafeAudio explained and should we fear it? – How does it work?” SafeAudio is one of the methods the RIAA is using against copyright [...]

Just released file sharing add-on for MSN Messenger. Share files with MSN contacts with drap/drop functionality. Browse remote file shares and setup read/write/delete access control to users own private folders. A public folder allows a complete anonymous FTP server to be hosted.Download Here

Want a web browser with the speed of Internet Explorer, and the configurability of Mozilla. Then you should check out K-Meleon (it’s for Windows only, Galeon would be the Linux/Unix alternative). It has the same precious “disable popups during window load/unload” feature that Mozilla has (including many other of Mozilla’s fine features without the bloat), [...]

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Wired News said in a news article just recently that “P2P fans predict rebound”… well in my own opinion I really don’t think P2P was ever dieing. P2P is going strong in wake of an economic downturn and no one single lawsuit or tech stock slide is going to stop it.