Sharman Networks released a beta version of the popular client which basically adds some features that KazaaLite already has. Changes in Current Version: Multiple search results tabs Up to 5 ‘Search More’s Search interface has clearer ¡Quick¢ and ¡Advanced¢ search tabs Peer Peer Points Manager provided by Altnet Web browsing New Kazaa 2.5 skin: ‘Orbital [...]

FolderShare turns any computer into a secure webserver. You or your invited friends/colleagues can view and download files from your computer via any web browser. Whatever your connection type (dial-up, broadband, or office connection), now you can easily access your files from anywhere. By running the application on multiple computers, you will have a powerful [...]

Blubster is a music-sharing network that is quickly attracting a user community. It uses a peer- to-peer network with a new private protocol that works without a central server. Once your client program connects with another client, you can search and download MP3 files from the entire network of users. Blubster offers an easy-to-use interface [...]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A judge has approved a settlement agreement in a music antitrust lawsuit that will result in more than 3.5 million consumers receiving nearly $13 each. Judge D. Brock Hornby issued a 51-page ruling Friday in the case that began in 1996 when attorneys general across the country began investigating whether distributors [...]

Warez leader gets 18 months An alleged leader of an online software piracy group known as Razor1911 has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiracy to violate copyright laws. The US Justice Department said in a statement that Shane Pitman, 31, North Carolina, was sentenced by US federal Judge James Cacheris in Alexandria, [...]

A story from p2pforums.com Operation Buccaneer is an ongoing 14 month world wide anti-piracy operation. It first made news around a year ago with the arrest of many members of the oldest “Release Group” DoD (DrunkorDie) is one of many groups that crack software, mostly games. This was big news in the scene when it [...]

Full Article located at Business 2.0 “The going rate for downloading songs from online music services like Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes Music Store, MusicNet, Pressplay, and Rhapsody is about $1 a pop. Yet the economics of recorded music sales haven’t changed much since the vinyl era — despite the fact that digital files cost very little [...]

mlMac is an interesting new file sharing application for MacOS X based on the MLDonkey 2.5 core. It is easy to use and thanks its core supports almost any important network. That is: Fasttrack/Kazaa! eDonkey Bittorrent Gnutella 1 & 2 OpenNap OpenFT Soulseek The GUI is simple as Acquisition, but the number of results is [...]

I know all of you visit the riaa website so often (probably to check if it’s been hacked recently), and I’m sure you’ll be happy to learn it has undergone a complete redesign. I myself am so impressed with it that I don’t even have the desire to download music anymore. http://www.riaa.com

The Madrid-based Puretunes.com, in the news for its novel approach to giving customers unlimited download access for time-specific periods, has been offline since last Friday. Selling access for as little as $4 to eight hours of unlimited downloading, Puretunes promised customers it operated within the law and showed agreements with two major Spanish performing rights [...]

After weeks of being offline GLT Poliane is finally back. Hears some new features: ROLLBACK: If you added a song on your ‘Download List’ by clicking on the green icon, and the program downloaded it partially, but there is no user available to complete the download, the program will re-start the download from another version [...]

BadBlue version 2.4 – the new release of the popular file-sharing web server – has been released. BadBlue is one of the easiest ways to run a web site on your PC and is specifically designed to make it easy to share photos, music, videos, and business documents. The new version supports instant photo-album views [...]

A new version of URLBlaze (http://www.urlblaze.net) now lists Torrent files. Its never been easier to find Torrent Files using URLBlaze and whats better, you can find the sources of the Torrent files using the “Referring URL” column. The easiest way to find Torrent Files is to run a search for “Torrent”, still there are not [...]

MediaPeek (www.mediapeek.com) is a new type of p2p- tool especially designed for people sharing movies. MediaPeek will create preview-thumbnails of shared movies and show you these thumbnails instead of meaningless (and often wrong) filenames or descriptions. With it, you can “take a look” at movies other people share *before* you decide to download a movie. [...]

Changes: > Added basic meta data searching (Audio, Video, etc). > Fixed a critical Windows 98/Me issue. > Added the ability to execute files from within the uploads and library sections. > Can now move the application into a different directory and it will still operate correctly. > Performance increase for all operations in the [...]

Another nice gtk-gnutella version has been released. Get it from the homepage on gtk-gnutella.sf.net. From the release notes (changes since 0.91.1): Now supports Ultrapeers, which means GTKG can work as an ultra node or as a leaf node. You can still run as a normal node, although this is not something wise to do, because [...]

A new release of Krimpy, the Open Source file sharing client, is now available. Version 0.1.2 includes: An integrated media player, supporting mp3, mpg, jpg, etc. id3 parsing for mp3 files. id3 information is now stored in your shared media catalog. A new window has been added for viewing your catalog files and their id3 [...]

Better and faster search results, especially for rare files. Better downloads, especially if you’re firewalled or are downloading from heavily trafficked servers. More intelligent use of IP multicast over the course of your search — we will continually send your search out on local LANs as your search propagates throughout the network. Improved performance — [...]

Just a very few changes in this new version. Bug fix: • improved connectivity • small bug fixes in searching Homepage

“Is downloading copyrighted music tantamount to stealing? Lawrence Lessig, an expert on Internet law from Stanford University’s Law School, and Matt Oppenheim, senior vice president of business and legal affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America, answer your questions about this heated debate.” Great article covering a lot of well thought out points on [...]