I’ll keep this nice and short. http://www.widesource.com/ has a new P2P Program (Or Old). I just found the site and couldn’t find a link to it on this site. Just about to test it. That’s All, GPA

People all around the world are beginning to buy Satellite radios for their cars. Is it all they say it is? I have asked 30 people who have bought one already if they liked it or no. I had 23 people answer yes but the other 7 answered the connection between the car and the [...]

People are wondering what is going to happen to all of the independent servers throughout the world when Napster comes back. Are they going to loose there servers? We are all hoping Napster will not be accepted. I run a server within a network called GalticNap on Slavanap. As you all know OpenNap was literally [...]

File Spree v1.1 was just released with a brand new file transfer protocol. It allows up to 1.8+ mb/s depending on your connection type. Other new features include: Clear downloads/uploads with errors, clear finished uploads/downloads, Automatic removal of downloads after finishing, Download Directory Selection, User Count added to the interface, and more. Also, if someone [...]

Roughly 30 suspects have been arrested in the latest government raids on the DrinkOrDie piracy network, seizing more then 200 hard drives in more then 100 campuses and corporate raids. College campuses are the focus for most of the investigation, college students have more bandwidth, more storage space, and little network security to monitor the [...]

A gnu beta version of Gnucleus popped up – 1.5.2.8. It fixes a few bugs and is available from http://www.gnucleus.com/update/

Sony has announced the MEX-HD1, an MP3 stereo for the car that rips CDs. “The user slips a standard CD into the head unit, selects which tracks they want ripped, hits the button and the chosen songs are compressed on the fly and saved to the drive. Eventually the CDs can stay home as overtime [...]

In a CNET article hosted on Yahoo they had a startling article on Internet security. It has been found that privacy systems for cookies in Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer can be bypassed in a very intriguing way using nothing more than the Microsoft media player. In affected versions of windows the media player [...]

WinMX is a file-sharing program. In addition to letting you share MP3s and other types of files, WinMX allows you to connect, simultaneously, to many established networks based on the OpenNap and Napster protocols. This is designed to yield more search results from a larger base of users. WinMX supports any file type, allowing you [...]

Norwegian prosecutors have indicted Jon Johansen for his role in creating the DeCSS program that unlocked a DVD copy protection system and unleashed a series of lawsuits by the motion picture industry… he could serve up to two years in prison. The indictment comes more than two years after the Motion Picture Association of America [...]

A beta tester for the recently released subscription version of Napster has anonymously posted his impressions of the new service. He finds it remarkably similar to the old one, both good “…browsing through a real person’s music collection, sending them messages and recommending them new music ” and bad “…broken tracks, cancelled transfers and a [...]

BearShare Version 2.4.0 features multi-source downloading, multiple file search, faster connection to the network, customizable window settings saved across launches, and smart downloading. This minor service release, version 2.4.1, fixes a crash caused by query hits without a file extension. Get the new version at Cnet.com

NapShare , a fully automated Gnutella file sharing client is now available for Linux. It’s a fully automated GUI based client with a automation “brain” that attempts to simulate searching and downloading the way humans do. It’s made to run 24/7, coupled with the reliabilty and security of Linux it’s hard to beat. Open source, [...]

In a Reuters article hosted on Yahoo they talked about what is supposedly going to be the next craze in the British world of the Internet. If you have ever been confused by the way English webmasters list their pages on odd directories like .co.uk, prepare to become even more confused. In the ever so [...]

From LimeWire: We would like to announce that LimeWire 2.1.1 has been released. Even we are impressed by how well this version works. All Improvements: + Much better search results by holding multiple ultrapeer connections. + Gnutella version 0.6 connections pass both ultrapeer and non-ultrapeer addresses. + Default number of connections was increased from 2 [...]

According to a Reueters article, the file sharing group “Drink or Die” that was rounded up last month, are now at the stage of being prosecuted. (No one is in jail, all accused parties retaining lawyers now). Read more from this link.

This is a feature that should be included into ALL file-sharing programs. You should be able to set up multiple folders on multiple drives so that certain filetypes/extensions go to those folders automatically. (ie – .mpg .avi .mov all go to D:Movies)This exists in most good ftp clients and I am surprised it hasn’t migrated [...]

With the success Creative has had with its Nomad Jukebox, you knew that the folks at SonicBlue wouldn’t sit on the sidelines of what has become as significant market niche in the MP3 portable market. Shipping the end of February, they will release its first Jukebox portable, the 20GB Rio Riot.

She was/is really important for the filesharing community. From ShareReactor: Hello Sharereactor Community. My name is Simon Moon, i am the host of this page and a close friend of Geraldine, you all know as “Gowenna”. I have some terrible news for you, and i am still not really believeing it myself. Three days ago, [...]

Been wondering why The Qube is down? Well that’s because it’s being rebuilt from scratch, on a awesome, fast, and completely de-centralized network. Anyways, a contest has been started. I want the new The Qube to be the best experience possible, and I think that having a great media player is a key element. As [...]