Go here for screenshots of Microsoft’s 3° file-sharing app, or sign up for the beta at threedegrees.com. Screenshots 3° Homepage

Finally what everyone has been waiting for, a portable OGG player (yes it supports MP3′s too). There are two versions available, a 128MB and a 20GB version. Check out these features: -Intuitive navigation -Go anywhere size: 4.3″ x 2.5″ x 1.3″, 5.8 oz. or 5.3″ x 3.1″ x 1.3″, 9.4 oz. -128MB/20GB embedded flash -Use [...]

The technology behind the next generation of file sharing legal battles was unveiled at CodeCon today. Brandon Wiley describes Alluvium as “Peer to Peer radio” – which it is, but it also blurs the distinction between streaming and downloading once and forever. The_Register

A low memory Soulseek edition is available for download. This version uses less Ram than the old 139 edition and it has been around for a while now. Now it’s posted in the download section of Soulseek’s site so everybody can try it. download

I wonder if they’ll ever get to 2.0? changes 1. For people who limit outgoing bandwidth, there is a special feature that when Idle, ares is able to use up the rest of your available upload bandwidth. (option) 2. The Cancel button in the popup menu in transfers is now last as there was some [...]

One of the most popular eMule mods, eMule plus, has released version 1.0 after a long, conspicuous absence. Tons of features added and bugs fixed. Now based on the .26 code. Zip on over to the eMule Plus homepage to check it out!

From News.com: “A Dutch company calling itself an “honest thief” has become the latest threat to an entertainment and recording industry beset by swelling numbers of file-swapping services.” A bold statement for a company with no software, but wait! It continutes: “Peer-to-peer file sharing should be accessible to all. We should all be able to [...]

With MXlinx you can: +Start downloads in your WinMX client with one mouse click! (try Sharepoint Releases – You won’t see any fake files in your queue! ) +SpeedUp your WinMX client for free! +Make WinMX network free of leeches! +Generate HASH codes for your private files! +Update your OpenNap Servers List! +Manage your upload [...]

File swappers can now become wife swappers, courtesy of KaZaA’s new dating channel. The service is to incorporate content from American Singles, a website owned by Matchnet PLC. You get free profiles, but you have to pay if you want to make contact. Which will save you falling in love with a music-industry salted file. [...]

Have you ever gone to see a movie and found that commercials for other movies were playing not just before the movie, but past the movies advertised starting time? Well it turns out that if you have, you’re not the only one. In a Variety News article hosted on Yahoo you’ll find the story of [...]

Spybot Search and Destroy searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If it finds such modules, it can remove them. In most cases the host still [...]

Check it out: Kazaa Download Accelerator

Slyck.com has a good interview with eMule here.

The new Kazupernodes has new features that enable export and import of supernodes lists. Best of all: you can export your list of favorite supernodes to a file. This file can be imported by other users. So share you supernode lists!! You can find KaZuperNodes at: Fasttrackhelp.com

Here is the new Morpheus3 start page!. Here are some screenshots: http://mitglied.lycos.de/maximumpc/M3_s.JPG http://mitglied.lycos.de/maximumpc/M3_h.JPGSomeone please mirror these facts:-the interface looks much cleaner.- search speed is improoved- in this beta there isen’t any META tag search

The Washington Post has a good article on a meeting that took place in Silicon Valley over Hollywood’s continuing pressures over DRM (digital Rights management) to be embedded into devices. It’s been a long going debate already but the article points out some good stuff. “Overbroad and over applied copyright is a threat to all [...]

From News.com: “A group of music publishers filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Bertelsmann for at least $17 billion, alleging that the German media company’s investment in Napster led to massive abuse of their copyrighted works.”

For months, the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming’s network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or “Friends” episode.Read the whole story

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of Easy-Jet and EasyInternet cafes is facing the big record companies because the customers of EasyInternet downloaded music! THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!! Learn More.

Kansas State U’s Josh Ballard, a computer science senior, is a happy guy. When students went back to this fall, they discovered they could no longer use their p2p apps. And that’s because a kill-em app created by Ballard now blocks exchanges.