ChangeLog Qtella 0.3.6 -> 0.4.0: – added “Download to” to download context menu – save style settings on exit – progress bar for uploads – option to sort search results not case-sensitive – hide search results already existing in shared directories – block specified hosts – retrieve ip from an hostname or file – [ [...]

The past couple of years a placid battle has been brewing between record labels, recording artists and their fans but it seems their plan is backfiring according to this New York Times Article. In an attempt to sway users from popular p2p networks such as Napster and gnutella, in December ’01 the Recording Industry unveiled [...]

Hi, I’ve sent an email to people from Java, Linux Kernel, Freenet and so on… about an idea I had. A Free Internet Operating System based in P2P. Imagine… Imagine you come to an Indian computer, you open a little program and… voila… you find yourself in front of your default desktop, with your browser [...]

COMBack Music Agent has been released. This release has some cosmetic changes (better presentation Web page, status bar for download progress, etc). It also fixes a memory bug that would cause the Agent to keep a lot of memory after downloading several tracks. In the next release, COMBack Music Agent will improve its search capabilities [...]

Spectrum Web Studio has released File Spree v1.3 of their P2P program. It fixes almost all of the errors which are currently crashing the program, and also adds in some server features. the server now uses less memory, and has a better database. Multiple downloads have been fixed from the error number 12 problem. If [...]

A preview of the next major version release is available now. Get it here: BS250b4.exe Responses to the beta are welcome at the Bearshare Labs Forum ——————————————- BearShare 2.5.0 Beta 4 ——————————————- – Hashed and non-hashed files grouped together in Search Pane – GUID creation changed; entropy acquired from Performance Counters – Results in Search [...]

Not sure if you guys are aware of this one yet, but it’s damm nifty software every MP3 addict needs. “

I saw this on Slashdot about this paper from Performance Dynamics Consulting. The paper talks about the scalability of gnutella and analyzes several different topologies which how the network would be ordered and compares how effective they are in a situation with two to three million peers. It finds that scalability can be achieved and [...]

BadBlue is a P2P file-sharing web server designed to be an easy, fast tool for organizations and individuals to share files inside or outside the firewall. The new, free 1.6 release adds support for the Gnutella protocol: BadBlue can now leverage the large, diverse Gnutella network and also allow organizations to set up private networks [...]

The MojoNation site has been taken down and replaced with a notice that “the MojoNation public beta has been terminated”. In a forum contribution MojoNation inventor Jim McCoy writes After more than a year of testing the public prototype for the MojoNation technology platform we are shutting down the public network. The MojoNation technology will [...]

Nullsoft have moved 1 step closer to a the release of version 3 of Winamp. This week they released Winamp 3 Beta 3. New version includes tons of changes, but the most important addition is definately its brand new video support! Accoring the this report the new version will play MPEG-1 clips and DivX clips [...]

Limewire 2.2 Beta has been released. New features in this version include XoloX type automatic requeries and resumes on failed downloads. It also has some cosmetic changes (mostly with the search layout automatically including metadata, looks more like Morpheus now) along with some networking updates and the usual bugfixes. See the official(?) change log here. [...]

File Spree v1.3 was released today. Here’s a list of it’s new features/fixes: > Transfer Error 9 Bug Resolved > Queing System Now Works Correctly > Forums and Help Window Now Pops Up > Connection Speed Information Provided Next to Usernames > Clearing Commands Work Correctly on File Transfers > Cancelling a Transfer No Longer [...]

John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) has written a editorial on how excess legislation will kill our freedom of expression. In the article, John talks about recent cases where the entertainment industry has “railroaded” laws through Washington thus tightening control over the internet. This means we are slowly loosing control, giving [...]

Boy your guys are lucky. Two new Zeropaid interviews in a week, what a treat! As we have seen with BearShare’s alphas Freepeers are making many strides in all the right directions. Swarming, hashes, download mesh, future implementation of ultrapeers, no spyware with out your consent are a few of BearShare’s many benefits. I got [...]

News.com is running a story on the Israeli security company Midbar and how they are distributing more then 10 million copy-protected CDs in the United States and Europe. “Midbar said its technology, dubbed Cactus Data Shield, prevents people from illegally reproducing music without altering the sound quality. Midbar said the announcement, which did not indicate [...]

Here is a new Peer To Peer Search Engine: “WideSource” with following featrues: – powerful search engine to find web pages on the Internet – multiple criteria such as page size, opinion, date, language, keywords, connection speed, and other specifications. – bookmarks management, fast search, usefull macros, browsing other users bookmarks, password-protection and access restriction [...]

WinMX 3.0 beta 4 was released today. It has fixed all connection difficulties. “Note that multisourced downloads are only possible through the WinMX Peer Network, and not OpenNap servers. Also, the new version is not compatible with the current v2.6, and while beta testing, the new network is much smaller than upon full release.” Download [...]

Drumbeat is an OpenNap-client for Mac-users. With more than 3 petabyte of data it’s a great program with fast and reliable downloads.

Here is a review of eDigital’s 1GB flash MP3 portable the MXP 100 that is as much a review on Lucent’s remarkable speech recognition technology VoiceNav as it is on the player. VoiceNav offers speaker-independent recognition, meaning it doesn’t have to learn each individual user’s particular speech patterns like IBM’s ViaVoice. Just say the name [...]