Here’s a pretty interesting article I found about Morpheus’ new Shopping Club being ‘predatory’ and stealing ad revenues from referrers: http://www.technews.com/news/02/176249.html

The latest version of BearShare adds Chat functionality letting you talk with other BearShare Users while transferring files. As always BearShare offers great features, such as Swarmed Transfers from Multiple Sources, Faster Connection to the Network, Auto detect Firewall settings, and Auto detect IP address. Get it Here

Songs copied through BurnItFirst will not expire when user’s subscription ends, a unique feature. Story on LATimes.com

Lavasoft has released Ad-Aware ver 5.8, included is a new and updated refrence file. Get it at Lavasoft.

For all you newbies out there, or even the expert, here is a wonderfully informative article on all mediums of file sharing. A definite must-read for all. http://www.viant.com/pages2/downloads/innovation_copyright.pdf

“In a move to drum up opposition for a proposed royalty regime for Internet radio, hundreds of small online radio stations plan to turn off their music streams Wednesday. The independent Webcasters are protesting a royalty fee proposed by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP). Appointed by the U.S. Copyright Office, the panel recommended that [...]

On May 1st Zeropaid Interviews will take your breath away In an interview so big, it has taken weeks to write. On something happening so large in the p2p world that makes other creators weep. This is Zeropaid.com interviews at their greatest. What is happening May 1st? That is all user speculation until then…

The “Fritz” Hollings bill and copy-protected CD’s may be the latest attempts by the RIAA to stop piracy but they were no means the first. 4 years ago, almost to the day, the SDMI was founded, it was supposed to be just the medicine to marginalize the Napster phenomenon. Soon, there would be SDMI protected [...]

The newest version of the KaZaA Lite program, 1.6.1 has been released today (29 April 2002). You can download it at the usual sources (www.refosearch.tk, www.k-lite.tk, etc.). It is 100% spyware/adware/Bonzi Buddy free and contains all the new features of the KaZaA 1.6.1 client. Be sure to update your copy.

In Salon.com’s “Spyware vs. anti-spyware,” the author of Ad-Aware, the program that removes sneaky software, explains what happened when his own program was zapped by the enemy. Click here for the interview.

“The Bush administration is lukewarm on a plan to embed copy-protection technology in software and consumer electronics. James Rogan, the Commerce Department’s undersecretary for intellectual property, has expressed mild skepticism about a bill championed by Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina). In a speech last week, Rogan said that ‘negotiations are presently underway among [...]

“Gateway hears the music. The Poway, Calif.-based PC manufacturer is examining a number of strategies that could effectively turn the company into a player in the music publishing and distribution business. Gateway already maintains a site, MusicZone, where select singles can be legally downloaded, but in the future the company’s involvement could extend to launching [...]

Thats the warning coming from at a conference, which attracted firms such as Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Symantec. Details from the BBC website Here. At the end of the article it states “Despite the efforts of the pirates, the software industry in Europe is looking pretty healthy. It is forecast to grow from £35bn in [...]

KaZaAlite Distributor Speaks The No.1 P2P application on Zeropaid.com is KaZaAlite. Yuri, the hacker of KaZaA was unavailable for comment, but Zeropaid.com was lucky enough to get an interview with the Scotland distributor Shaun Garriock. He is the webmaster of KaZaALite.com. Yuri has turned down interviews with The Wall Street Journal and other major news [...]

It’s commonly known that Audiogalaxy is the best for rare mp3′s. This weekend while searching for 3 particular new songs in AG I got “No Results”. Meanwhile I found 2 of the 3 on WinMx. Being a club DJ I am always jumping on the newest stuff (which most of the time in the past [...]

Hey guys, Team Xolox have released a beta version 1.18! From Xolox Team- We pledge to work hard to earn your trust and to regain you as a loyal user. We make the following promise to you: XoloX contains NO SPYWARE, NO SNEAKWARE, NO HIJACKWARE. We will never trick you into installing something that you [...]

There’s a rumor, that two eDonkey Bot Versions will be avaible in Future. eDonkey Bot Lite, Freeware and without network damage functions like Fast Global Search (FGS) and Source Booster. eDonkey Bot Pro, with all normal functions, it shouldn’t be free. Links to this topic: – Thread @ edonkey2000.com Forum – donkey-news.de (German) – ratiatum.com [...]

Sen. Fritz Hollings is pushing a bill that supposedly safeguards online privacy — but actually gives intrusive marketers a green light. Outrage surged through users of the KaZaA file-sharing utility when they learned, early in April, that a new breed of spyware had been installed on their computers. KaZaA, probably the most popular heir to [...]

KaZaA v1.6.1 is now out with translations, and several small changes. Get it here!

I think so. Here’s why: 1. Sharman found out 2. New subscription service (could disable other clients, etc.) 3. CloudLoud (not sure if still exists, or if Sharman knows it exists) 4. I found 10 times as many files on WinMX than on KaZaA, with more variety, too. 5. “Don’t Share File with other KaZaA [...]