konspire2b is a new peer-to-peer file sharing system that is quite different from anything else out there. We took the common paradigm and reversed it. This paradigm shift lead to two interesting features: a pleasantly different user interaction model near-optimal data distribution characteristics (both in terms of latency and load balancing) k2b adds digital signatures [...]

File Spree v1.3.0 BETA has been released. You may have thought the program was dead, but in fact it was just in development for some much needed attention. Included in the new release are a ton of bug fixes and updates (literally). Here is the changelog: + IM Return Bug Fixed + All “Skinned” Buttons [...]

UK Broadband corporation, NTL, has dropped warez newsgroups such as alt.binaries.dvd for reposts, not for piracy (according to them). In addition, “requests to add new binary groups will not be accepted”. Full article at the Inquirer

As many of you might have noticed, we sold out of our Black File Sharing Soldier t’s about a month back. Well we now have a fresh stock of our favorite t-shirt ready for purchasing. If you have not received your order, we have shipped all our back orders and you can expect to see [...]

The finish music organization demands that kinder-gardens pay royalties for singing copyright-protected songs. It would seem that the sarcastic remarks about the possibility of the music companies charging us for just carrying a copyright-protected tune in the shower are beginning to appear as a reality. (Source)

The Finnish parliament returns the national copyright law proposal back to the ministry, which originally drafted it. The proposal was based on the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD), the European counterpart to United States DMCA. While the deadline for directive implementation was December 22th 2002, it has so far been implemented in only two states, [...]

Minor updates and fixed a bug or two. For those who don’t know anything about K++, this is what it does to your Kazaa or Kazaa Lite. Some of the K++ features: * Unlimited searches * PL (Participation Level) cheat. Set to a constant 1000. * Kazaa’s 8-sources per file limit can be changed to [...]

We were alarmed to discover this morning that Unite the Cows is offline, replaced by a notice that says: “Account for domain unitethecows.com has been suspended.” Looks like their ISP pulled the plug. Any UTC folks here? What happened?

Ad Aware 6 has been completed and lavasoft has relaunched its site,

From News.com: “Verizon Communications is asking an appeals court to block a court order that would reveal the identity of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate to the music industry.”

Here is an interesting article. It seems that Filerogue was sued in Japan, and unfortunatly lost. Here’s the Link

A new version of random nut’s k++ has been released. Some of the new features are: – More keyboard shortcuts (thanks to Aldo) – Dat View / AVI Preview / Sig2Dat / My Shared Folder / Help can be accessed from within KaZaA Lite – Includes Kazap (instead of Speed Up) – Made more foolproof [...]

The latest “news” on the RIAA website is actually more of a collection of headlines. They read: 1.RIAA Supports Freedom of Speech 2.RIAA Supports Copyright 3. RIAA Supports the Music Community Looks like RIAA is suffering from a slow news day, as these headline don’t actually lead to a news story. None of the links [...]

“Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-bloated tongue twister: “next-generation secure computing base.”” Read more here

iCommune seems to be headed in new directions. Just days after Apple’s legal department put an effective end to its life as an iTunes plug-in, iCommune’s developer has updated the Web site with details about his new plans. James G. Speth, iCommune’s creator, created the software as a way for iTunes users to share their [...]

Updated versions of both the eDonkey/Overnet Hybrid, and the Overnet stand alone program have been released. With some bug fixes and changes to make the program more router friendly. News on Homepage Hybrid Vigor 1.28.03 – When you cross two distinct subspecies their offspring usually exhibit what is called hybrid vigor. Meaning the offspring are [...]

Haven’t seen this on Zeropaid yet. Maybe it’s old news but anyway I thought it was important. TCPA seems to be a big brother system and it’s happening right now. It provides a computing platform on which you can’t tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor. The obvious [...]

Fixed a few bugs and enhanced some features. The main enhancement was the ability to browse users files inside of the search window instead of opening up IE. To read more or to download it go to the Ares home for the web installer or for those who have trouble with that installer, Ares made [...]

Source: Yahoo News “LOS ANGELES – The owners of the Kazaa file-sharing network are suing the movie and recording industries, claiming that they don’t understand the digital age and are monopolizing entertainment. Sharman Networks Ltd. filed its counterclaim Monday in response to a copyright-infringement lawsuit brought by several recording labels and movie studios. That lawsuit [...]