Were you hoping to be a beta tester for project fasttrack? Then you might have another chance! Stated in the News section of their site is as follows: “Bad news, we are not on track for the Jan 1st beta test, we are working hard to finish off what we feel as important issues before [...]

Message from Mike on the Shareaza forums: The old beta versions are expiring on the new year (GMT), so to continue using and testing Shareaza 1.7 you will need to upgrade to the latest beta (1.7.0.18). This does not affect older v1.6 release (non-beta) versions. Sorry for the inconvenience, but with betas its good to [...]

Story from DC Internet. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor granted a Christmas wish to Hollywood last week when she issued a stay temporarily halting a California Supreme Court decision that limited the jurisdiction of a lawsuit filed against a Texas programmer who posted to the Web computer code designed to bypass copyright protections of [...]

Two weeks ago, Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet, quietly released an early-prototype of a new file-sharing application which appears to be quite a departure from his previous work. The new application is called “Locutus” and is built on Microsoft’s .Net framework, which is currently only available on Windows and FreeBSD, but should soon be available [...]

“According to an official statement issued by the Recording Industry Association of America today, ‘I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner … do you eat cheese?’” Hackers modified the site to accept “comments” which turned out to be rather interesing. See entire article and screenshot at The Register

From the Washington Post, a story looking back at the entire year in review. In 2002, the important developments in the computing business had little to do with hardware or software; instead, they revolved around a comparably bug-ridden realm, that of politics — specifically, copyright politics. How creators and distributors of art should be paid [...]

Take a moment to consider that next CD or DVD-ROM drive upgrade. If you thought it could damage your PC – or even your person – would you go slow? Consumers like to buy the latest, swiftest devices, but research from Sweden and the experiences of Australian PC users show that speed can inconvenience and [...]

Ok, everything has a silver lining, sometimes you just need to look a little harder. Here is a little backround …and some REALLY GOOD NEWS regarding Ad-Aware (posted by the adaware admin on Lavasoft Support: To all, It has become apparent that many people are concerned with the lack of updates for Ad-aware 5.83. We [...]

This was taken from the RapidRoad forum, you can also view it at the official site HERE. It has recently come to my attention that this Peer-to-Peer project might not be real. I am, in essence, sorry for all of the trouble this has put people through. I AM NOT responsible for this, as I [...]

At last,iMesh version 3.2 is released, in beta stage. iMesh uses both it’s centralized network and the decentralized FastTrack network. It has adware and spyware, so try to use a clean version such as Dr. Damn has supplied in the past. The new version 3.2 promises a new boost of performance with it’s new technology [...]

Kazaa hack was released today. A person known as “mike” on the k-lite.tk forums was the first to release this info…perhaps he is also the developer. The options of Kazaa Hack include: Skyrocket: Rise rapidly on all Download activity Freeze: Remain unaffected by downloads or uploads Reverse: Increase on downloads, decrease on uploads Act Normal: [...]

K++ 2.0 Click to get K++ v2.0 from readme.txt: Some features present: * Up to 40 sources per file (Kazaa: * Unlimited search more (Kazaa: 2) * For you evil cheaters, PL can be set to a constant 1000 * No ads/spyware DLLs loaded (CD_Clint.dll, TopSearch.dll, kzscan.dll, etc). * No yellow-colored (Altnet Inc./TopSearch) files in [...]

The Project FastTrack Team has released an Alpha version of it’s GUI. The GUI is the front-end for the COM FastTrack component that is slated to be released with a beta GUI to 100 beta-testers on Jan, 1st, 2003. Get the Alpha GUI Version Here. Note, this is only a GUI and is intended to [...]

Note: You must have regular DC++ installed before downloading BCDC++   Some of the biggest differences between this and the normal DC++ is the ability to support upload queuing and bandwidth limiting.  I would recommend this to anyone interested in DC because it offers more advanced features.    DC++ 0.20, modified to: new: support upload [...]

Just short two years in existence, JXTA Sun‘s peer to peer project has become a enterprise developers dream. XML-based protocols make-up JXTA, creating a wealth of possibilities for developers interested in creating complex P2P systems. (JXTA Protocols Specification) From ‘JXTA: P2P Grows Up‘ Project JXTA is an open-source, community-based project originally initiated by Bill Joy [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) — along with BBC Watchdog, The Home Office: ‘for the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security (ATCS) Act, Oftel, and any and all telecommunications analysts — has been nominated for the ISPAs Internet Villain of the Year award. The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) has been organizing the UK [...]

Source: newsobserver.com The file-sharing service Madster and its founder could face $51,000 in fines for violating a court order barring the swapping of copyright songs. U.S. District Judge Marvin Aspen in Chicago found Madster and Johnny Deep in contempt of court Friday. He scheduled a Jan. 23 hearing on the fines. Deep said he had [...]

KaZaA Lite Cracked is cracked version of the popular KaZaA Lite. It’s the same program, but with some new features added to it. Download from up to 40 sources at the same time per file (maximum was 8). Unlimited times “search more” is possible (used to be only once). “Find more sources” time-limit is now [...]

Source: ITWeb.com One of the largest counterfeit software cases in US history ended recently with the sentencing of Lisa Chen, 52, from Los Angeles, to nine years in prison. She was also ordered to pay $11 million in compensation. According to US prosecutors the sentence is the longest prison term for a first-time conviction on [...]

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