The Qube Beta 11 Released with gIFT Support
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/
Appeals Court Tells Napster to Remain Offline
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 [...]
FurthurNET P2P
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 music [...]
The U.S. Senate wants to hear from you!
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 [...]
Oscars get Napsterised. Here we go again!
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 [...]
New video compression 4 years in the making
“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 start-up [...]
MP3/CD Portable Rips Direct to Internal Memory Card
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 [...]
First DVD Copying Bust
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 2.3.1
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 where [...]
Help with new P2P client.
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’.. however, [...]
