ISONEWS closed down by US Government
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 to [...]
BearShare 4.3.0 Beta 15
The BearShare team has released another Beta. If you care to download it this is the link.
Nova 1.1
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 code base, vastly improved but [...]
Slyck’s Gnutella2 Interview
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
Slyck’s Gnutella (Bearshare) Interview
In this interview, Vincent Falco of BearShare contributes his thoughts on the current issues facing the Gnutella community.
For more Information click Here
AOL in talks to sell music stake
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 [...]
PeerBuddy for P2P in Beta
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 [...]
Napster gets a new lease of life
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 consultant [...]
KaZaA Preview Extractor 1.2 contains spyware
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 free version of this tool v.1.1 here:
Zeropaid [...]
Project Fasttrack Site Up and Renewed
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
