Morpheus 4.0 BETA 2
This update fixes memort leaks, some bugs have been fixed and other small
improvements, update now!
Access to Gnutella, Gnutella2, NeoNet , FastTrack and eDonkey.
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Digital Music Stores Reviewed
BBSpot reviews all the major ‘legitimate’ online music stores, including Napster 2.0, Buymusic.com, eMusic, Musicmatch, and iTunes. Check it out.
2004 to bring loads of ‘free’ Net music
“You’re going to see lots of free music given out via third-party companies,” buymusic.com founder Scott Blum says. “It’s not going to be Apple and iTunes driving the business. It’s going to be companies like Pepsi and other third parties that are promoting digital music on bottle caps and on labels.”
Indeed, Apple Computer has [...]
Reverse Connect DC++ 0.305c
Reverse Connect is a P2P client. It uses DC++ as codebase and add below features : secure user identification to anti leechers search by file hash multiple sources download simultaneously memory mapping files
changelog:
0.305c 2003-12-22 * Added kademlia support (no publish/search/download)
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Prosecution Appeal Against DVD Jon Rejected
The copyright industry can add another significant loss to their campaign, as a Norwegian Court has rejected the prosecutions request for an appeal against DVD Jon. The last few weeks have not faired well for the copyright industry. Initial failure came when a Canadian court ruled that P2P downloading was legal (although uploading is not.) [...]
Microsoft moves into music downloads
Microsoft has at last confirmed plans that it will launch its own music-download shop next year, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple Computer’s iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores.
With unequalled software reach, Microsoft’s entry into the market will almost necessarily create a splash larger than that [...]
Is the RIAA out of the ballgame?
On Friday, a Washington, D.C., federal appeals court tossed out a key part of the industry’s legal strategy for tracking down and suing music swappers. A day earlier, Holland’s supreme court said Kazaa’s original owners weren’t liable for copyright infringement by people using their software. And last week, Canadian regulators said downloading copyrighted music from [...]
Morpheus returns to FastTrack
A new Morpheus 4.0 BETA was released (previous versions were Alpha). It adds ED2K and FT to the Alphas’ Gnutella, G2 and NeoNet.
So Morpheus now has FastTrack support again, what does this mean? Do we have a nice KLite alternative now? Well, it seems this is not the “official” support we knew from old Morpheus [...]
MUTE 0.1
MUTE 0.1 is a new file sharing network based on WASTE that provides easy search
and download functionality while protecting your privacy. It does this by
routing all messages through a network of neighbour connections, using virtual
addresses and encrypting all the traffic (using RSA for public/private keys and
AES for the actual encryption). MUTE’s routing mechanism is inspired [...]
Downhill Battle Calls for RIAA to Return Lawsuit Money
WORCESTER, MA (December 19, 2003)- Downhill Battle, a leading music activism website, is calling for the RIAA to return all the money it has collected from individuals and families suspected of filesharing. “The RIAA obtained these names illegally, and it’s time for them to return the money that they’ve extorted from hundreds of families.” said [...]
