Blocking those gold-colored items that you might get on some searches is very easy. Step 1: Block access to the website www.altnetp2p.com, this can be done in two ways: – By using the hosts trick. More info here. – Blocking web access (ports 80,8080,8000) for Kazaa.exe with your firewall. Step 2: – Delete the file [...]

Have you been talking about starting up a RAID formation for the last few months? Or maybe you are getting tired of your 20 Gig capacity. Times are tight, and so is money, but let’s face it you’ve been putting it off. It’s probably time to buy. On October 1st, Western Digital and Maxtor, (in [...]

SonicBlue just released the newest additions to the Rio MP3 portable line. Stepping away from the backpack designs of the Rio 600 and the Rio 800, both of these units come with 64MB of memory and are capable of reading 128MB flash cards. This gives them a top end of 192MB total potential storage. Most [...]

Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has announced that by 2006 TVs should receive digital signals from broadcasters. These TVs would have anti-piracy receivers specially built to receive these signals. This is done to prevent the fraud of copyrighted shows, which are being shared in P2P networks. In opposition, [...]

Check out this new KaZaA utility here This works well with kazaalite, it’s undergoing beta testing though.

Zeropaid.com is in search of a new bread of crew members to help contribute to our growing news demand. We are in search of several members to cover particular areas of technology, p2p, music, etc. Duties include: submitting short editorials on your chosen topic at least once a week. Stories can be either a news [...]

KaZaA-Hancers in a great add on that improves KaZaA Media Desktop. Morpheus * KaZaA-Hancers brings an entirely new experience to operating both of these P2P file-sharing programs on your desktop. Download now and discover the difference. Features: * Search KaZaA much faster *exchange & sort files easier *interact better *Burstable file transfer Download

KVCD.Net released a new 180 minute TMPGEnc template. You can put up to 180 minutes of MPEG-1 video on a SINGLE 80 minute CD-R, and play it back on just about any DVD player that supports VCD playback. Here’s the announcement and sample links:

I found this new program in Cnet. It was just released on Sept 20th 2002. It is called KazaaHttp. Information can be found here -KazaaHttp allows you to enjoy Kazaa peer-to-peer software using a standard http proxy. This enables thousands of users not having a Socks5 server available to enjoy Kazaa 1.7.x. – KazaaHttp uses [...]

0.19b(ugfix) is done, here are the changes: Merkur: my new coded socketclass didn’t worked too well and needs to be rewritten again (which takes a lot of time) but I made some changes to the current networkcode in order to avoid the crashbug and it seems to work. So hopefully emule should run more stable [...]

The catch you ask? It’s a pay program. That’s right folks and it’s $14.95. Somebody’s “get rich” scheme I guess. It’s called Gnutella Gold. (Aptly named). I don’t know why you would want to pay for this program when there are so many other free gnutella clients offering the same or more (Shareaza). Anyways, check [...]

I’d just like to let you guys know that a new version of FileShare has been released.FileShare is a small, fresh peer-to-peer community that is fast and completely free. Just drop by, say hello, share files and help the community grow. Of course, there are no banners, spyware, or popups of any kind. Thanks for [...]

News.com has an update on the spread of the Slapper P2P virus, including a change in the number of reported infected servers, down to 7,000 from MSNBC’s report of 17,000. Cnet also reports that the virus’ spread has reached a plateau, and that it’s DOS features have rarely been activated. Most tellingly, experts are referring [...]

Record biz rips off UK – a history lesson By Drew Cullen Posted: 19/09/2002 at 11:51 GMT Punters steal when they swap music over P2P services, right? So what is the music industry doing when it sends in the goons to stop retailers from importing CDs? That’s what happened in the UK, where the Office [...]

Just finished reading this article about who enforces the DMCA. To quote the article “… we’ll see major arrests in October of people who have been illegally (and flagrantly) sharing movies. With the evidence already gathered, the game is afoot, meaning this week is too late to stop sharing those movies and expect to get [...]

Hot on the heels of last week’s offer by Private Media to buy Napster, California’s own VS Media also threw their hat into the fray by signing an agreement to use the AltNet’s TopSearch service to distribute the legendary Pam and Tommy Sex Video via Kazaa. Our testers took the few minutes necessary to perform [...]

RollingStone.com’s Digital Beat column has posted an awesome article. An excerpt: “The problem with the industry blaming the Internet is that it makes the labels seem out of touch, and, undoubtedly, only inspires consumers to steal more. And just think about how much free PR the industry has given the people behind Morpheus and Kazaa. [...]

Mambo has announced a new 20GB MP3 jukebox portable that records MP3s on the fly and also has a separate slot for MMC/SD memory cards. This allows you to use the unit to swap songs with others who have flash players, just have them give you their card and write to it.

Check this story out from our friends at Slyck:Altnet Begins Micro Payments Wednesday September 18, 2002 We’ve received an email from Altnet media that outlines their new pay for P2P plan. Check it out below: ALTNET LAUNCHES ITS MICRO-PAYMENT SYSTEM BRINGING PAY FOR PLAY TO PEER TO PEER System Uses Technologies from AllCharge and DuoCash [...]

US group says “P2P isn’t immoral or illegal” After months of making low-key complaints, a consumer electronics maker trade group yesterday launched a bitter attack on record labels’ and movie studios’ anti-piracy campaigns. In a speech given at a storage technology conference in San Francisco, Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro blasted the copyright owners’ [...]