Beta 11 includes: – gIFT Support (KaZaA, more files) – new decentralized chat – fixed GNutella – User Icons (similar to buddy icons on AOL Instant Messenger) – minor upgrades to the radio panel and player http://www.zeropaid.com/theqube/

Back last summer Napster were ordered to shut down its service until it could block all copyrighted material. It appealed the decision and the Appeals court in July blocked the lower court’s ruling from being enforced, but Napster never resumed its free service. The appeals court has today come back with a verdict that Napster [...]

Furthur is a non-commercial, open source, peer-to-peer decentralized music sharing program currently under development by PCP Networks, LLC, with much support from members of the etree.org and Sugarmegs music sharing communities. Furthur is unlike any other music sharing software on the Internet. Furthur is the first and only 100% non-commercial peer-to-peer network of legal live [...]

Click here to submit your comments to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s website regarding “Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age.” Make your voice heard folks, but some words of advice: DO NOT SEND FLAMING MESSAGES TO GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS! If your argument(s) are to be taken seriously, sit down and think about what you are [...]

Despite record box office sales and cheaper filming costs, the movie industry still views file-sharing as a threat to their empire. “Hollywood feels threatened as more people use Internet file-sharing services to obtain free copies of movies. But just as the music business has found in its efforts to fight the mass copying of songs [...]

“A secretive 4-year-old project aimed at improving digital video is ready for its close-up. Privately held Pulsent on Monday will take the wraps off a new compression technique that the company claims can shrink digital video to about a fourth of the size of standard methods currently used in the cable and Internet industries. The [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an MP3 CD player that not only played your CD’s, but could rip them into internal memory so you can still listen to those same tunes when there is a different or no CD in the tray? Wouldn’t it also be nice if you could hook up an outside [...]

The MPAA has got their first DVD copying arrest. Apparently they lose some $3 billion a year to non-internet piracy. Perhaps if they wouldn’t charge so much to get into a movie we wouldn’t have to deal with this?

LimeWire has officially released LimeWire version 2.3.1. This is a major release with many improvements: * New search tab makes powerful searches easier. * Resume downloads on restart are working again. * Flow control. Passes more important messages first. Searches will be faster and better overall once this change is widely available. * Fixed bug [...]

We’re working on a new file sharing program. It’s really close to an older technology, but we feel there is plenty of potential left in it. We’ve got the coding pretty much done, but there’s only one problem: We don’t know what to call it. For the past few months, we’ve just called it ‘FileShare’.. [...]

Now here’s a legit crackdown on piracy: arresting those who “sell” rather than “share” second-hand copies of movies. “A rogue DVD-burning lab was shut down by law enforcement in New York on Friday, the first time that’s happened in the United States, according to the movie studios’ trade association.” Click here for the full report [...]

Are old patent laws just as troublesome as outdated copy-protection laws? And is simply appending new corporate-drafted regulations to existing unfit laws really supposed to help the public and the consumer? To understand where I’m coming from, read Court pares back digital-download patent over at Cnet’s News.com.

Don’t you hate leechers! Maybe you can do something about it. The controversy continues to rage as leeching remains widespread in all of the most popular programs. Here’s what I think are some of the most important arguments/points. #1 Leeching could eventually destroy p2p (it’s simple math – if things continue the way they are, [...]

The first visible release of FreeWire is simply a copy of LimeWire without ads. It has been rumored that FreeWire has spyware, but nothing has been confirmed. If you install FreeWire, Zeropaid suggests running Ad-Aware after you install FreeWire just to make sure your system is clean. LimeWire is open-source, what FreeWire is doing is [...]

Fritz Hollings is at it again. (Since when is South Carolina so chummy with content distributors?) He has reintroduced the bill to force all electronic equipment makers to embed copy protection into any and all tech devices. Hollings said that “any device that can legitimately play, copy or electronically transmit one or more categories of [...]

Filetopia, who’s been around for quite a while, is about to release their new version. Some new features will include decentralization, multi-source segmented downloads and all the features the p2p community has come to expect. Yet another Beta for us to test but it does look promising. Check out screenshots and homepage link.

“A federal judge in Chicago called a temporary halt to the music and movie industries’ legal assault on Madster, the online file-swapping service formerly known as Aimster. The move came shortly after two of the targets of the industries’ copyright-infringement lawsuit–BuddyUSA Inc. and AbovePeer Inc., which operate Madster–filed for bankruptcy protection.” Click here for the [...]

“Internet video and audio pioneer RealNetworks accused Microsoft in court on Wednesday of seeking to restrict RealNetworks’ products because they posed a threat to the software giant’s Windows operating system monopoly … RealNetworks alleges that Microsoft withheld technical data from RealNetworks to ensure that RealNetworks’ audio and video player would not work as well with [...]

Like millions of others I download MP3′S for the hell of it,no one really loses out,right? Others download movies,again no one really loses out,right?What about software though,not from the big companies like Adobe,Macromedia etc,but from the smaller companies that provide all the smaller utilities that most Windows users can’t do without. This article tries to [...]

URLBlaze is somewhat different “file sharing” application because instead of sharing the files from your HD it shares the location of the file on the Internet and the location of the page that links to the file. This makes URLBlaze legal and at the same time help you all finding any kind of file (MP3, [...]