For all those people trying to keep up with the latest version of AdAware, Lavasoft recently released a new signature file, (used in the scanning process). After scanning my computer with the new signature file, AdAware found many more new Spyware components, to be exact it found 2 folders, 1 registry key, and 10 files [...]

Zeropaid got a chance to talk with the hackmaster himself Dr. Damn. Enjoy! ZP:Why do you hack iMesh, KaZaA, Imesh, and Grokster? What’s in it for you? Dr. Damn: I never hacked KaZaA. (Note that I use the past tense there.) I hacked iMesh and Grokster for two reasons: nobody had hacked the latest version [...]

An Article from today’s Guardian contains some interesting statistics on the current state of file sharing: 3.6 billion files are downloaded each month using FastTrack and the number is growing Requests for DVD files have recently overtaken those for music and even pornography on Gnutella Linkin Park’s album, Hybrid Theory, sold 4.6 million copies in [...]

This recent event has made me a little sick to my stomach, this should be an alert to all WinMX users. Post taken from www.dslreports.com Start of original post: GET OFF WINMX OPENNAP SERVERS ASAP! Look at the email my ISP got! Please Tell everyone you know. Email to to everyone. I’m getting my DSL [...]

On March 30, version 11.10 of The Qube was released. There are no known bugs in that were identified. But when will the official version be out? That is something we all have to wait for. But speaking of The Qube, they released their new “Qubeserver” on April 6. The Qube is also gaining popularity. [...]

I just ran Adaware on my machine. It found a file called “cd_clint.dll” and reported it was associated with cydoor. Lo and behold it was in the KaZaALite directory. I finished running Adaware and now KaZaALite won’t run because “cd_clint.dll” isn’t available. Am I mistaken somewhere or is KaZaALite misrepresenting somewhere? Dr. Fileshare Note: Doesn’t [...]

Kazaa proudly says on its splashscreen : “P2P the way it sould be”… Is it ? Is there a next step in P2P after Kazaa? Can we improve the way people share files? Tree Technologies Inc. will soon release The Bridge 1.0, their first P2P file transfer freeware. The Bridge simply improves the file sharing [...]

Very interesting article on how digital privacy has changed during the years, and how in the future we won’t be able to acess older hard drives or removable devices because of all the copy protections being imposed. Read the rest here.

Media powerhouse Vivendi Universal and consumer electronics giant Thomson Multimedia said Friday they will work together to develop anti-piracy technology. “Under the deal, the two French companies said they will focus on copy protection of products that include DVDs, broadcast, satellite television, broadband and video-on-demand services. Thomson and Vivendi said they will also cooperate in [...]

It looks like another storm is brewing for file sharers! “Bit-caps” in user agreements to limit a user to a certain amount of data transferred per month? What next? Read this informative article. Some of the highlights: “The cable companies note that the people who use the most bandwidth make up only a small fraction [...]

FreeWire, the ad-free fork of LimeWire’s version 2.4.0 is out now with a few tweaks on LimeWire’s code. Check it out at FreeWireP2P.com

It appears as though the eDonkey bot is exploiting the eDonkey service and causing server slowdowns. In order to test the severity of eDonkey’s use of the network, the bot will stop working on the 20th (tomorrow) and the change in network behavior will determine the bot’s future. Read more about it here

Yet another sign that large organizations are dismissing the validity of the DMCA: “A major publisher of scientific research is reversing a policy requiring its writers to comply with a hotly debated U.S. copyright law. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said it will no longer require authors to attest that their work [...]

Ever heard of Swapper? This .NET-based Gnutella client looks like the best one currently available. Download and test it here. Add it to your list, it is better than bearshare or gnucleus!

Imesh has released version 3.1 of their popular software. The new version claims to be completely spyware free. It does however contain cydoor adware. Check it out here. Dr. Fileshare Note:If it has Cydoor then it cannot be spyware free. Too Bad. -Dr. Fileshare

Just for everyones info: Kazaalite.com is probably flooded with hits (or being hit with a DOS as rumor has it..though I’d bet on the former). there are mirror sites(including my own which I’m having to babysit lest it be overloaded) they are: [ Version 1.6.0 Final Build | English | 1.18 MB | April 17th [...]

As you may guess it’s the RIAA blaming people again. This news story from MSN shows that they think file sharing and pirates made their sales decline. It seems they have many statistics as well, about how many people burn music cds and so on. Very interesting story read the rest Here

This excerpt was taken from an article on wired.com. It seems now they want to shoot their other foot. Kazaa Lite has caught the attention of Sharman Networks, the Australian company that purchased Kazaa earlier this year, and in a statement released Wednesday said that the company, “will vigorously defend our rights and take action [...]

“Can fair use be turned into code? That is, can we use technology to ensure it, just as we can use technology to take it away? … What’s progressive is technology, which makes hash of attempts to control content. Any digital rights management system is going to be broken.” This is a short but interesting [...]

As I was reading this week’s Cnet download.com newsletter, I noticed that a file-sharing program called Music Magnet was listed as one of the top movers in its rankings, enjoying 50,000 downloads since April 4th. When I went to the developer’s website, I found nothing more than another Gnucleus ripoff. The software credits Gnucleus in [...]