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Feb 26 2003

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 [...]

Feb 26 2003

BearShare 4.3.0 Beta 15

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

Feb 26 2003

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 [...]

Feb 25 2003

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

Feb 25 2003

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

Feb 25 2003

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 [...]

Feb 25 2003

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 [...]

Feb 25 2003

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 [...]

Feb 24 2003

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 [...]

Feb 24 2003

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

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