Internet users who allow others to copy songs from their hard drives could face prison time under legislation introduced by two Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday. The bill is the strongest attempt yet to deter the widespread online song copying that recording companies say has led to a decline in CD sales. Sponsored by Michigan Rep. [...]

Grokster is one of three peer-to-peer file sharing clients that is currently running on the Fast Track technology. It never quite hit the level of popularity of Kazaa, or former Fast Track member Morpheus. However it does have a wide following. This week the company released a pay version for $19.95 that is free of [...]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Four of the world’s biggest film studios have taken their first open legal action against video pirates in China, an attorney representing the group said on Tuesday. The Motion Picture Association (MPA) took the action last September on behalf of The Walt Disney Co, AOL Time Warner’s Warner Bros, Vivendi Universal [...]

File-swapping applications are deeply entrenched inside corporate networks, according to a survey of computer systems by a Canadian network monitoring company. In a study spanning 560 companies, ranging from 10 to 45,000 employees, Canadian company AssetMetrix found peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa and Morpheus installed at least once in 77 percent of companies. The survey [...]

Early last spring, NYCWireless co-founder Anthony Townsend got a note in the mail saying that someone on his network had been violating copyright laws. This type of note is becoming increasingly common as record companies and Hollywood studios subpoena Internet service providers (ISPs) for information about subscribers in order to stop people from trading songs [...]

More than 11% of music in Australia is obtained through illegal means, the country’s music industry has said. The Australian Record Industry Association (Aria) said a survey found that 3.6 million of Australia’s 20 million people had illegally “burned“, or copied, a music CD in the past six months. And it also found that 3.4 [...]

LimeWire is a software tool that enables peer-to-peer file sharing on the Gnutella network. Similar to the popular Napster service, it enables the sharing, searching, and downloading of MP3 music files. LimeWire also lets users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include pushing [...]

KaZaA Media Desktop offers you a total media experience. It is a second generation peer-to-peer file sharing service with which you can search and download media files from other KaZaA users. You can also organise and play/view your media files through an integrated media jukebox, publish your own work, reach an audience and communicate with [...]

New Features Provide Increased Security to Protect Users’ Privacy, Greater Ease of Use, and Faster & More Reliable Downloading StreamCast Networks, Inc., creators of the popular file-sharing software Morpheus(TM) and a global leader in peer-to-peer communications technology, today released Morpheus 3.2, an upgraded spyware-free version with new features, making file-sharing faster, safer and more secure. [...]

After four months work, Freenet 0.5.2 is now available for download. It features a new NIO technology that brings improved performance using less CPU and system resources. Individual nodes are now more efficient and the speed and routing of the entire network are significantly improved. We also implemented probabilistic caching, which further improves routing and [...]

I guess it all depends on whom you ask. Recently, two reports were released that display contradicting results regarding that activity known as file trading. In both cases, the authors/statisticians were looking to see if threats made by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) to sue individual file traders had any affect on the [...]

DC++ is an open source C++ client for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits. Changelog: — 0.261 2003-07-15 – * Fixed user list problems (dc++ was too fast for nmdch) * Fixed a queue frame crash — 0.26 2003-07-15 – * Search for [...]

LimeWire released a 3.3.0 beta version which will probably be announced stable soon. Changes include: the long awaited Partial-Filesharing support more aggressive downloading (retrying a host if the download failed) the resume button is now working again (for months it was defunct) fixed some problems with MacOS / MacOSX Download here: LimeWire Beta download Give [...]

Two derivatives of the popular Kazaa peer-to-peer filesharing service now actively attempt to block scans by the RIAA and other agencies, escalating the P2P war to a new level. Both Kazaa K++ and Kazaa Lite, two very similar modifications to the Kazaa file-sharing system by Sharman Networks, now contain hooks to the PeerGuardian database of [...]

In a surprise announcement made earlier this evening, the administrator of Bytemonsoon.com, a popular Bit Torrent directory site, announced the immediate closedown of the site. DFX made the announcement in a user forum hosted by filesoup.com: “Due to excessive bw usage, lack of a stable host, also constant dos attacks and lack of other options [...]

Morpheus is a full-featured and easy-to-use P2P application that allows users to share content across the Morpheus Users Network. It utilizes open protocols established by the Gnutella developers, and enables users to directly communicate with each other and search for any type of digital file across the network. Users can control CPU utilization, word filters, [...]

Pablo Soto has been hailed as the Spanish Shawn Fanning: a 23-year-old kid with a knack for coding, a passion for music and a certain brashness in his willingness to take on the record industry. At least for now, Soto is better known in Europe, where two file-swapping services, Blubster and Piolet, are powered by [...]

Note that some languages needs a .dll due to translations mistakes, to be able to search a file. Here is the changelog : ———————- – July 13th, 2003 – ———————- bluecow: Several small bug fixes and code improvements [Maella, dpr, rayita] ———————- – July 11th, 2003 – ———————- Ornis+bluecow: String resources split into language resource [...]

Author: Aldo Vargas Program Type: Freeware File Description: Kazaa Lite Toolbar is a customizable toolbar and Web address bar integrated to Kazaa Liteinterface. It’s useful to open favorite web pages, Web e-mail, shared folder or external tools (like Antivirus, Windows Media Player, AVIPreview, Sig2Dat, etc.) directly from Kazaa Lite. Also works with Kazaa Media Desktop. [...]

Drumbeat is a wonderful p2p application that is out for macintosh systems, only for the moment! they are creating it as we speak for windows operating systems! What is Drumbeat? Drumbeat is simply the best File-Sharing program anywhere for mac and soon pc. the creaters made it easy to use — even if you’ve never [...]