Source: CNET Download.com A new version of Xolox Ultra has been released today… Increased performance: • Full Ultrapeer and leaf modes • Vastly improved searching and connectivity. • Metadata search added • GGEP support implemented. • Search Panel updated. • Right-click on a download to force searching for more sources. • Webcache list auto-update implemented. [...]

Source: BetaNews.com eDonkey2000 combines the strengths of Gnutella and Napster while avoiding their problems. It doesn’t rely on a central server yet searches are quick and your client doesn’t get bogged down with endless search requests. You have the ability to search all the files being shared anywhere on the network. It automatically resumes interrupted [...]

British Telecom, the UK’s biggest service provider in terms of peer-to-peer traffic has been accused of supporting illegal file trading by the British Phonographic Industry (RIAA British equivalent). Accusations about BT came after recent moves by NTL to curb p2p users by imposing a traffic limit on broadband users, now the BPI have set their [...]

Ironic that Clear Channel, long a foe of file sharing, is teaming up with Big Champagne, a company that tracks the top downloaded songs and artists on the major P2P groups. Here’s the story, from RAIN and the Wall Street Journal. I guess they know that the almighty dollar rules all. Or if ya can’t [...]

Texan Congressman John Carter is reported as saying at a Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, that: “I think it’d be a good idea to go out and actually bust a couple of these college kids… If you want to see college kids duck and run, you let them read the papers and [...]

The music and movie industries have stepped up their campaigns to label people who trade files as pirates who steal from artists and who are violating the law. It’s not working. The public is saying “Talk to the Hand”. Read more

The latest version of this excellent tool was released yesterday (15th). Run the update option if you already have an older version or for more information go to their Homepage. Homepage Download

foobar2000 is a very recommendable media player. It is developed by Peter Pawlowski, who used to work on Winamp3. It uses a plain and simple UI – no skins, no fuss. While in playback mode, it approximately consumes 1.9 megabytes of RAM. ScreenShot Download

Source: News.com The chief executive officer of StreamCast Networks, parent of the Morpheus file-swapping software, has resigned “to pursue other opportunities,” the company said late Friday. Outgoing executive Steve Griffin had headed the company throughout its years-long incarnation as one of the most popular file-trading software companies on the Net. The company’s terse statement gave [...]

Source: Slyck.com This get more annoying by the moment. They are out to say anything to try and kill P2P. United States Department of Justice Claims P2P Funds Terrorism “John G. Malcolm, deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice, claims that file swapping supports terrorism. In a Thursday [...]

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for WINDOWS, Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows XP. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting [...]

The same technology used to download music from file-sharing sites makes it possible to trade pornography, tech experts testified at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday. At a hearing of the House Government Reform Committee, parents were put on notice that they’ve got to do more than put porn blocking programs on their computers to keep [...]

With Piolet you can share files faster and more easily whatever your connection. Speeds never seen before on any network are the standard for Piolet. Searches go through our private p2p protocol, generating hundreds of productive results in a matter of seconds. Downloads come in a non-HTTP optimized mode, utilizing up to 100% of your [...]

It’s a coincidence that Smash releases his ZP Chat program around now because the #Zeropaid chat room has just opened up on the P2PChat Network thanks to KayaMan. You are all welcome to come and visit, it is open 24/7 and is supported by the P2PChat community. To visit using a webpage (javachat), go here [...]

Kazaa Lite Toolbar is a customizable toolbar and Web address bar integrated to Kazaa Lite interface. It’s useful to open favorite web pages, web email, shared folder or external tools (like Antivirus, Windows Media Player, Volume Control, AVIPreview, Sig2Dat, etc.) directly from Kazaa Lite. Also works with Kazaa Media Desktop. The toolbar also includes a [...]

A new Ares Build has come out. Ares is a peer to peer program like winmx, kazaa lite, shareaza, etc. You can share files and download files. A lot of new changes have come in this build. ChangeLog: The huge supernode problem that was affecting ares is now finally finished and fixed. Ares should perform [...]

A new version of everyone’s favorite ed2k client has been released. Change Log Download

From CNET’s News.com: WASHINGTON–Members of Congress on Thursday said new laws aimed at restricting pornography on peer-to-peer networks might be necessary, as police vowed to step up enforcement efforts. Full Story

Ever needed to share files with colleagues? In seconds, BadBlue transforms your PC into a secure, search-enabled web server. Remote users need only a web browser to search for, view and download the files you’ve marked as shared. No special software, no ‘FTP’ commands… you can do it all with just a web browser. Key [...]

Forums: We have fixed some problems in ultrapeer mode. Forwarding of QRP tables was taking too long to process and this activity was tying up the message queues. We reworked some of the QRP table interaction and offloaded the QRP forwarding code to a new thread which has solved part of the problem. There still [...]