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According to a new survey by The Yankee Group, teens are more concerned about their connection speed, than legal issues.

It appears that suing a couple college kids out of their life’s savings for file sharing a short while ago didn’t do the trick. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again?

Yankee Group Press [...]

Source: FilePortal

A new Ares build has comes out that features an abundance of changes internally (network wise) and some external improvements as well.
Ares is a peer to peer application that lets you download any file type and includes a media player, browser, chat, and a virtual library to organize your media.

Changes?
Some GUI alterations
Partial file sharing [...]

Yet another revolutionary program created by Justin Frankel and Nullsoft was snuffed in it’s crib by mega-corp AOL.

“Waste” a P2P file sharing program for private groups was originally released on Wednesday, but when AOL found out about it, took immediate action to snuff it out of existence.

Justin Frankel and Nullsoft are the original developers of [...]

It’s the case of the dumpster-diving DMCA fighter.

Monsterpatterns.com operator Derek Gendron says he didn’t see anything wrong with posting for sale the discontinued sewing patterns he’d found in the trash heaps near some Jo-Ann craft shops.

But sewing pattern giants McCall Pattern and Simplicity, makers of the patterns, disagreed. In February, the companies successfully convinced [...]

In a move VERY similar to when Pop Princess Britney Spears’ hit single (You Drive Me)Crazy was turned into a movie of the same name, Avril Lavigne’s hit single “Sk8er Boi” is going to be turned into a movie. Paramount Pictures has optioned the song and hired “ER” writer/producer David Zabel to adapt its words [...]

Thomas Mennecke

WinMX has always been at the forefront of P2P development. When its OpenNap support base took a back seat to the WPNP (WinMX Peer Networking Protocol), its popularity and resourcefulness soared to new heights. While the networks’ number 1 complaint remains the queuing situation, a grand process is in motion to resolve this and [...]

John Borland

Mark Ishikawa was eating dinner at the Los Angeles Hilton a few weeks ago when he overheard a couple discussing the virtues of downloading music using free services like Kazaa.

As CEO of BayTSP, a company that tracks copyright infringement on file-swapping networks for record labels and movie studios, Ishikawa had a professional interest in [...]

Powerful File Sharing Gets Easier with Shareaza 1.8.9 – Bringing P2P Together

Shareaza is a powerful file sharing program that connects you to 4 popular P2P systems: G2, eDonkey2000, BitTorrent and Gnutella1. Share with (almost) everybody! As many users have found out already, there’s nothing quite like swarm-downloading a file from 3 networks at [...]

Sue Zeidler and Caroline Humer

A legal dispute that threatened to derail Gateway Inc.’s groundbreaking plan to load music on its computers has been quietly resolved amid growing interest in such offerings by rival PC makers, executives and analysts said on Thursday.

Months after announcing a first-of-its-kind deal in December to preload 2,000 tracks from music subscription [...]

From linuxtoday.com
According to the German publication Heise Online, the City of Munich maybe using Linux desktop systems after all, despite recent offers of discounts from Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer.
The decision, which is apparently not quite official yet, seems to indicate that Munich government officials in the SPD party are indeed leaning towards migrating city administration [...]