Desciption from Zalzah.com: Zalzah is one of the best peer-to-peer application which allows people around the world to share files. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use. Zalzah allows you to find files anytime, anywhere, without any waiting. The easy of use with advanced search functions [...]

ShareReactor — a community file-sharing portal for the eDonkey network — began falling apart at the seams Friday. Many of the original and most valuable contributors to the site began leaving ShareReactor after certain “internal problems” could not be resolved. “Simon Moon”, who owns and operates the massively successful ShareReacter site, denies that this situation [...]

eMule 0.22c has been released ! click here

A last-minute political deal has salvaged portions of a legislative bid to ease the effects of new online music fees on small and nonprofit Webcasters. read more here

Roxio is to buy the assets of Napster, the dead P2P music-swapping firm. In other word’s it’s not taking on liabilities or Napster’s litany of legal battles with the music major. The deal is subject to approval from the bankruptcy court and, presumably, to legal challenges from creditors and, err, lawsuitors. Roxio is offering $5m [...]

One common question was answered this month. The seemingly two-faced idea of sending hackers to prison for life and using them to hack others recieved some direction. A U.S. judge ruled that info found by a hacker without a warrant could not be used against the sick puppy that was hacked. From ZDnet: “A federal [...]

Since 0.22b had some issues with source exchanging and the next version was planed 1 week later, I deceided too release a little hotfix to correct this issue. Here are the changes of this fix:Dirus: Added a warning for windows 9X/ME users who set their max connections to high. Unk: Irc:Added support so that two [...]

Sharman Networks has put up a good tutorial on how to create skins for KMD v2. Now go dress up your kazaa Skins tutorial

A US bill proposed in July 2002 would give copyright holders the legal power to attack the computers of file sharers suspected of piracy. Experts say it would be relatively easy to log on to a network and deliberately overload suspected users with fake requests for a file, by misinforming other “nodes”. This is similar [...]

Kazaa Lite version 2.0.2 is now available (English only). Please note that cheats do NOT work anymore in this version. Restoring an old P Level backup from the previous version won’t work either. So only download (or upgrade to) this version when: – You don’t use cheats – The upgrade message drives you crazy – [...]

“Lately, there has been a “Swiss army knife” mentality among manufacturers of any type of digital device. It makes sense in many cases too. Here you have digital product that already has a good processor, significant memory and can perform other duties with slight modification or an add-on peripheral. If the device can do other [...]

Reported in the Chicago Sun Times metro section by a staff reporter. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition on Tuesday urged people not to download music illegally from the Internet. “Do the right thing. Buy it, don’t burn it,” Jackson said. Jackson said d/l music hurts the artists and song-writers but also “small [...]

As always, Sharman Networks finds a way to catch up with the users of its software. The release of KaZaA Media Desktop 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 appeared to have no new changes except for patching up participation level cheating and blocking many features of Diet Kaza. Well now, users running KMD are being prompted to upgrade [...]

From MSNBC: “‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ apparently isn’t such a secret any more. The sequel to last year’s record-setting blockbuster fantasy film, perhaps the year’s most-anticipated movie, is scheduled for U.S. release Friday. But Internet movie pirates have once again jumped the gun and illegal copies of the film started to make [...]

Dietk’s website has been down for the past few weeks. However, today November 12th, the site has finally been back up. Chip was looking for a reliable server since the old one could not support the load any more. According to the site, the new server is expensive and so Chip will be taking voluntary [...]

From News.com: “Having helped spark the file-trading revolution, some stars of the peer-to-peer networking world are swapping their original anarchistic philosophies in favor of capitalism.” Well, they don’t mention Zeropaid, but they should have. After all, we have t-shirts for sale.

RadioFree 0.11 is now available for download! RadioFree is an easy to use internet radio station recorder that takes MP3 streams from radio stations (such as the ones in iTunes) and breaks them apart into individual MP3 files that can be played on their own. You can download RadioFree from http://www.xlife.org/radiofree.php

The concept of watching movies on your computer has been around for a while, and finally the big Hollywood studios are making a play for this nascent market, launching an online movie rental service called Movielink. The megabucks question for the studio moguls, however, is not so much whether the technology and broadband connections are [...]

From an advertisement in today’s New York Times: Squeaking by on a 4000% mark-up “Somewhere in Malibu, a music exec lies on his $7000 Mies Van Der Rohe daybed, whimpering because album sales are down. A CD costs roughly 40¢ to produce and package, and despite charging twenty bucks for it, he’s losing his Commes [...]

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is challenging a letter recently sent by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to colleges and universities seeking the schools’ cooperation in monitoring peer-to-peer file trading on university networks. In its own open letter to colleges and universities, EPIC wrote, “While network monitoring is appropriate for certain purposes [...]