Despite the victory after months of legal wrangling, the RIAA has done nothing with the information and will not say what it plans to do. As of Tuesday, the trade group had yet to send out cease-and-desist letters, file suit against the subscribers or forward the information to the government for prosecution, among other options. [...]

As you can read here and here, PeerBuddy is a news FileSharing Program. Today, the developper released a news version : v2.05b Changes: * Reuse search items. * When searching, reuse existing search items that match the criteria. * Filter out duplicate search results. * Timeout search request and resend it.

Harry Potter and the Order Of Phoenix due out June 21st, in just 11 days has been leaked to the internet nearly 2 weeks before release. Copies of the new installment of the insanely popular book series started flying around the internet late last week, all over mIRC and now have spread into all the [...]

Author: SkySof Software Program Type: Shareware File Description: FileSpy allows users connected to a network with Novell Netware to see all the users who are using a specific file. It also allows viewing of the user’s rights to the file/directory, how the file was opened, the user’s network address, and the date and time the [...]

Changes: -Multi-language and multi-platform.** Beta Homepage **Notice that this 3.x version now need Java Runtime Environement from Sun MicroSystems.

PeerBuddy 2.04 Released today. This new peer to peer software is a brand new concept, read more here. Here are the changes : * IP filtering logic updated * Communication logic updated * Media volume added * Added feature to test connections * Misc. errors corrected It seems that the recurent error that was displaying [...]

Apple is in talks to buy Napster, Mac rumours site LoopRumors has claimed, citing “reliable sources”. Well, not Napster per se but Roxio, the CD burning software specialist, which itself acquired Napster’s assets for $5 million after the peer-to-peer pioneer declared itself bankrupt last summer. Roxio also owns PressPlay, the online music service launched by [...]

ABC News/Tech TV On April 3, 19-year-old Jesse Jordan received a call that changed his life. The freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., learned he was being sued by one of the most powerful trade groups in the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Jordan, an information technology major, created [...]

Yesterday was released a new version of known usenet poster – BinPost.It is available for Windows and Linux platforms. You can find it here. New version have many changes, including: Bugfixes: * Fixed bug, which caused not setting “Posted” status to singlepart files; * Counters are now always showing proper values, whenever program is posting [...]

The Limewire beta version 3.0.0 for Windows is now available for download. Download here.

PeerBuddy brings a relatively new concept to Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks. It was birthed mainly as a test to see how successful it would be to track segments of files based on hash IDs. The result of this experiment turned out to be very successful, thus “PeerBuddy” was born. This new concept to file [...]

There’s a new panic in Europe. Administrators of eDonkey’s biggest server have received a letter from Retspan, telling them that they face a 150 billion dollars fine if they don’t stop Razorback right now (it’s the server’s name) It’s rather a piece of advice from Retspan, but they seem to be serious. If majors or [...]

P2PForums has learned that the up coming mega Hollywood blockbuster “The Hulk” has been leaked onto the internet almost two weeks before its official release. While this has become more, and more common recently, this copy is not your common camera pointed at the screen. It appears to be a work print copy of the [...]

Check out this exclusive excerpt of an interview with Ben Harper, featured in the June issue of Performing Songwriter. Performing Songwriter: …Do you think you would ask Virgin Records, your parent label, to assist in distribution for Inland Emperor as it expands? Ben Harper: No [flatly]. You know, right now, I … [long pause] Unless [...]

Joltid, the Swedish peer-to-peer software company formed by KaZaA founder Niklas Zennstrom, has launched PeerEnabler, a secure content distribution technology that utilises users’ own PCs to disseminate content for publishers. PeerEnabler essentially uses peer-to-peer software to get content even closer to the edge of the network that content distribution services like Akamai. So if a [...]

As reported on Wired Apple Computer may never be able to stop Mac users from sharing music over the Internet, despite its best attempts. Last week, Apple released an iTunes update that disabled the ability to stream music over the Internet. In April, Apple added a feature that let Mac users share tunes over a [...]

The source code and intellectual property rights for Kazaa add-in ‘Kazap’ appear to be up for sale on ebay. As well as buying the only copy of the source code, rights to rebadge, recode or sell the application are granted.

Thanks for all your comments on Zeropaid.com, both good and bad about our initial release of HotP2P! We listened to what you said and just updated and released HotP2P as a free consumer version. HotP2P 1.01 is now available at this link: Download HotP2P 1.01 New/Fixed features: – Changed to free consumer version. – Added [...]

After more than a year and millions of dollars in development, the file sharing and messaging system known as Earth Station 5 (ES 5) is said to be ready for its first public users. In beta for months and officially released just days ago this new product may or may not rewrite the rules of [...]

From News.comAltnet acquired rights to a 1999 patent that the company says covers the technique of identifying files on peer-to-peer networks using a “hash,” or digital fingerprint based on the contents of the file. The company plans to approach virtually all other peer-to-peer services to seek license rights. “Altnet is very focused on the infringement [...]