DICE version 0.2 released
DICE is a hybrid server that offers simultaneous connectivity from IRC clients and opennap clients.
DICE version 0.2 was released (12/21/2002)
What’s new:
+ Removed dependency to MS SQL Server
Apparently setup getting easier.
Its platform is Windows2000/XP, if you own high-bandwidth line you can begin an opennap server with it and can get decent IRC server at the same [...]
File Swapper Eluding Pursuers
TALLINN, Estonia — Their office is spartan, with only five computers in various states of repair and nary a decoration on the wall. Few outside this Baltic capital would even recognize their names, though many of the world’s largest recording and movie studios are well aware of their accomplishment.
Jaan Tallinn, Ahti Heinla and Priit [...]
Overnet 0.42 Released
New:
Small files given upload priority
Q is now unlimited
Title format changed to Downspeed / Upspeed
Button flicker removed
Views are less flickery
Log.txt implemented
Can close the app from the console
Send Message windows now on taskbar
Copy Link to clipboard now supports multiple selections
Option not to show your shared files
Fixed:
Fixed [...]
Ares 1.8.1 released
100% Spyware and adware FREE, 100% respectful of your privacy.
*File type and rich search with adult and dangerous file filter
*Multiple source download
*On-the-fly share for fast download of large files
*Built-in audio/video player with playlist
*Easy browseable library with friendly web-browse interface
*Works with any type on file (movies,music,games,documents,images…)
*Built-in webserver with DNS [...]
Hollywood Using DMCA as a Club
In a follow-up to this story.
321 Studios, whom had asked a Federal Court back in April to rule on the legitamacy of it’s DVD duplication software, has been hit by a legal suit by 7 studios.
On Thursday, seven major movie studios filed a countersuit in federal court in San Francisco, claiming that [...]
OptimumOnline bans uploads to P2P networks
In disturbing news this week Cablevision’s high speed broadband unit OptimumOnline has sent letters to subscribers warning that uploading to P2P networks won’t be tolerated because it allows users to “access the files on your hard drive”. No kidding.
They went so far as to provide a list of non tolerated P2P’s, although no doubt [...]
Slyck Shareaza Interview
Slyck has a great interview with the boys at Shareaza.
Slyck.com: The Gnutella network has been around for a considerable amount of time. Although potential was always there, it’s never fully realized this potential. What in your opinion, are the problems facing Gnutella today?
Shareaza: I think the potential everyone sees in the Gnutella network stems [...]
Prosecutors seek probation for DVD-Jon
The DeCSS case is still not over, but we now know that the state is asking for 90 days on probation.
The DA insists that Johansen did not release DeCSS to create a Linux DVD player but to rival with other competing groups (possibly DoD though I didn’t see that name mentioned). Also, for the [...]
eMule Plus 0.24a 1 released!
eMule Plus started out as an eye-candy modification of eMule, the hot new open-source eDonkey client. With a dedicated team of coders, beta testers, and translators, it has since evolved into the most feature-rich, stable, and thoroughly tested eMule mod with dozens of features unavailable in the official builds, all the while retaining its [...]
Is there a Terrorism Threat on the net?
In a Wired article today there is a story surrounding a report by a expert formerly of the State and Commerce Departments.
…To all those Chicken Littles clucking frantically about the imminent threat of a terrorist attack on U.S. computer networks, a new report says: Knock it off.
Online attacks are merely “weapons of mass annoyance,” [...]
