Gnutella2 specs released! Gnutella2 Specification and Standard Draft 0.9 The first draft of the Gnutella2 Specification and Standard Document is now available for review. Specifications Gnutella2 Specification and Standard (Draft) Older Background (Discussion) Reading Gnutella2 Search Mechanism Overview Gnutella2 Protocol Introduction Source: Gnutella2.com

As a few of you may already have noticed, the popular Sig2dat link sharing and community site has joined forces with PeerWeb! You may know of KaBuddy as it was featured a few weeks ago here on the main page of ZP, and if you have checked out any Sig2dat sites then you more than [...]

Taken from RAIN (http://www.kurthanson.com). Kind of an interesting, yet funny story. From The New York Times: “The computer literacy gap between children and their grandparents may be narrowing. In fact, older people now spend so much time online that the AARP, the association for middle-age and older adults, has begun advertising on KaZaA Media Desktop, [...]

The success of the Rio and ReplayTV lines were tempered by a company fighting fiscal difficulty and repeated lawsuits from the entertainment industry. In the end, SonicBlue decided to capitulate to the realities of the market it helped build and shut its doors.

eMule Plus is a new generation eMule compatible client created to improve the original GUI and to bring you the best experience ever, give it a try and feel the boogie. Changes: FEATURE: standard MOD_VERSION identification both sent & displayed [Cax2] FEATURE: check if Internet connection is down [kuchin] FEATURE: new full Scheduler (Night Shift [...]

DICE is hybrid server to host IRC clients and opennap clients, on Windows 2000/XP. DICE version 0.5 was released (03/24/2003) What’s new: + Removed dependency on SSL and implemented new secure protocol for AdminShell + Setup procedure is greatly(!) simplified + Implemented server configuration panel in DICEAdminShell It’s Windows 2000/XP *ONLY* since it’s server that [...]

This latest version includes enhanced security for communicating with the server from the client. Older versions are no longer compatible. Download Here to start chatting (no registration required to download):http://www.smashsworld.com/

Ares is a peer-to-peer program to search and download files of any type. Ares features multiple source downloads, auto-search and resume to complete downloads, easy to use filelist manager with intuitive author/genre sorting, rich searches and results, adultfiler and virus protection, built-in audio/video player with playlist and web-browser. Changes: When clicking the X on top [...]

eMule is a new filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network, but offers more features than the standard eDonkey client, because it’s opensource but under the restrictions of the GPL License. The ChangeLog is available by going here. To download Emule go Here.

Features / Changes •Improved password database for webservers that require authentication. •Bias can be added to GWebCache servers so they are queried more often and live longer than aribtrary ones. •True/False columns in listings appear as either Green checks or Red x marks. •Rewritten swarming engine for faster downloads. •User Interface cleanup: most buttons moved [...]

The Final Builds of the K-Lite Codec Pack 2.01 are available. These are the public versions! Uninstall the old version first! K-Lite Codec Pack 2.01 Basic (2.76 Mb) Features (basic version): – DivX Pro Corporate Edition [version 5.03] – DivX MPEG-4 Low and Fast motion [version 4.1.0.3927] – XviD [Nic's build 16/03/2003] – Windows Media [...]

“KaZaA becomes even more powerful when you add KaZooM to it. KaZooM is an add-on application that’s automatic, speeds up the download process and goes out and finds the files you are looking for with far more power than you can with regular KaZaA searches. No longer will you not be able to find specific [...]

  There has been alot of debate on numerous aspects of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ever since it was passed. Now the Library of Congress’ Copyright Office will hold a series of public hearings to decide if changes should be made to the DMCA. Namely the section that prohibits bypassing copy-protection schemes.      The anticircumvention [...]

The Finnish parliament has substantially revised a controversial law proposal on restrictions to the freedom of speech. Initially the proposal was seen as a threat to the free communications in the Internet. It was feared any publisher or service provider would have had to log practically all Internet traffic, archive all publications for up to [...]

ML-Donkey stands for Multi-Net-Donkey and supports most file-sharing networks, especially the eDonkey Network and the Gnutella Network. ML-Donkey has all the features you could want; – Connects to the eDonkey/Overnet Network – Connects to the Gnutella Network – Connects to other networks, such as OpenNap etc. – Connects naturally to a Buddy List – Connects [...]

SMH.com.au: “As the United States Department of Justice attempts to extradite an Australian indicted as head of an international software piracy ring, the battle against software piracy has been spurred by unsubstantiated claims it funds terrorism. The Department of Justice made the claims before a United States congressional hearing earlier this month but could not [...]

Changes: 1. Enhanced the popup for viewing more info on a search result, added more information. 2. Added a new style to blend in with Windows XP. 3. Added a “more info” popup for viewing extended information on a download. 4. Added filetype icons to both “more info” popups. 5. Sped up sorting when searching. [...]

Source: CNET News.com SunnComm Technologies, one of several companies developing anti-CD copying products, has licensed a new technique that can hide data, video, software or an identifying watermark inside music files. The company said Thursday that it is working with Stealth MediaLabs to create a kind of super-watermark that can be embedded inside music files, [...]

A friend of mine recently pointed me in the way of some cool software, WinBar. Basically it is a piece of monitoring software, but it is really cool. Here’s what WinBar says about themselves: WinBar is a free and compact program that lets you monitor your system and provides easy access to frequently used controls. [...]

Source: Cnet.com article WASHINGTON–Fans and foes of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act soon will have another chance to tell the U.S. government what they think. The Library of Congress’ Copyright Office said on Thursday that it will hold a series of public hearings over the next two months in Washington, D.C. and California to [...]