the newest update of the very popular burner is out. Ahead Software

Shareaza v1.8.1 is released! Even more features than the v1.8 release! This version adds new never-before-seen P2P features, but also fixes a lot of known bugs, crashes and other concerns. Here are some of the main features: Shareaza First! Preview Thumbnails of Video Files in Search Results Ever wonder what a Video File looks like [...]

MSNBC is reporting that the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property is holding hearings relating to file sharing on University Campuses. The commitee’s website is at http://www.house.gov/judiciary/courts.htm.

Sony Music, co-owner of the Pressplay online music service, has provided funding to rival service MusicNet, sources close to the companies said. Executives for both Sony and MusicNet declined to comment. But sources close to the situation said Sony recently took a 4 percent stake in the service in the form of a convertible note. [...]

I am the author of a free media player called Subhash VCDPlayer. Perhaps you could mention it in your Tools section. The software has had 13,000 downloads over the last 4 months from Winsite. (http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?12500000037994) It can play audio/video files. It can play VCDs. It can also capture still images from video files and store [...]

VCDQuality.com, another popular site for obtaining news about the latest releases, has fallen. This comes only a few hours later than the fall of ISONews.com.

Legal online music services began their biggest test Wednesday, as America Online launched a long-awaited paid-subscription music plan aimed at competing with free services such as Kazaa. Full Article Here The Record Companies will never learn! Record label executives welcomed AOL’s release, calling it a big stride forward for MusicNet’s technology, and for reaching new [...]

Souce: FilePortal A new build of Ares has come out. There aren’t any significant visible changes that you will find but there is one major change. The developer has worked on the supernodes and this version finally makes the supernodes very efficient without using a lot of bandwidth. By the end of the week, going [...]

The RapidRoad website was scheduled to be updated today, along with the GUI preview of Epidemic 1.0pa. As you will see, there is no updated website or GUI preview. Vaporware once again. RapidRoad’s Website

there is a new and very fast filesharing tool. if you like very fast connections and need all files very fast, so try us. try applejuice Board at this board you can find an support. we like this, that´s cool. MfG Moonfire

As i was visiting iso news to check for releases today i found that it had been taken over and is now held by the us government. The reason for this being selling of mod chips. Source Reuters.com “The Justice Department said it had taken over the Web site (http://www.isonews.com) after its owner pleaded guilty [...]

The BearShare team has released another Beta. If you care to download it this is the link.

1. Added prompt on exit option. 2. Force binding and “behind firewall” options for firewalled users. 3. Added the ability to send multiple searches concurrently. 4. Improved the look. 5. Added the ability to sort all columns on all lists. 6. Speed of the library add and remove buttons improved greatly. 7. Massive clean of [...]

In this interview, we’ve received input from the LimeWire and XoloX team, who have voiced thier opinion on the Gnutella2 (Mike’s Protocol) situation. To read more of interview, click Here

In this interview, Vincent Falco of BearShare contributes his thoughts on the current issues facing the Gnutella community. For more Information click Here

From News.com “Media giant AOL Time Warner is in preliminary talks about selling a majority stake in its Warner Music Group business to music company EMI Group in a deal likely to be valued at $3 billion to $4 billion, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Sources close to both companies said last month that [...]

Hey guys. Here is a new product out in beta, which should help with the bad downloads/blank files/cuckoo eggs out there. It’s a mini firewall for P2P which blocks all connections to known bad files sharers (like OverPeer, etc). It’s also going to be blocking known email miners, stalkers, spammers and surveillance companies. It’s a [...]

Napster, the pioneering online music file swapping service, will be relaunched by the end of the year by its new owner as a legal subscription service. Roxio, a company which makes software for CD-burners, bought Napster’s name and associated patents for $5m in November. Napster’s founder Shawn Fanning is back with the company as a [...]

The programme is located here: KPE’s home and it contains spyware SaveNow!, one of the worst spyware parasites on this planet. What this spyware does: – monitors your surfing behaviour (cookies, referrers etc.) – opens popups – Crashes IE and the whole system. More info here: Even MS hates Savenow! You can download a spyware [...]

The PFT website is back up and rejuvenated. Most links aren’t working at the moment because the site is still under development. A few new screenshots can be seen, and the same message as seen before is in the front page. http://www.projectfasttrack.com/projectfasttrack/default.asp