Sharman Networks, owner and distributor of Kazaa, today urged all users to use the antivirus feature provided free with the latest versions of the official Kazaa applications to help protect against the MyDoom virus. By protecting themselves, Kazaa users are also disinfecting the network and protecting their peers. The MyDoom virus spreads primarily through email. [...]

MUTE File Sharing is an anonymous, decentralized search-and-download file sharing system. Several people have described MUTE as the “third generation file sharing network” (from Napster to Gnutella to MUTE, with each generation getting less centralized and more anonymous). MUTE uses algorithms inspired by ant behavior to route all messages, include file transfers, through a mesh [...]

Some new freeware for BitTorrent From the publisher: BitTorrent is the newest and fastest growing file-sharing client for the Windows operating system. With BitTorrent you can locate those hard-to-find files (i.e. full albums, movies, television shows, games, and applications) that you wouldn’t be able to find with other file-sharing applications (i.e. Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, eMule). [...]

Source Supportp2p.com News Josh Avedisian In response to the outbreak of new pay to play music programs that came out near the end of 2003, Supportp2p wanted to know which of them were successful and which were flops. So we did a little research and this is what we found. I opened my Napster 2.0 [...]

KCeasy is a windows filesharing application which uses giFT as backend. Currently supported networks are OpenFT, Gnutella and FastTrack. There have been serious bugs in 0.8 which led to crashes and corrupted downloads.Everyone still running KCeasy 0.8 should update to 0.9 immediately.There are also lots of other small bug fixes and UI improvements in this [...]

The FBI is coming to the local record store. The music industry has won permission to include the agency’s logo in CD packaging as a warning against unauthorized copying, sources said. Record labels want to use the logo the way it is used by movie studios, which include an on-screen warning on home videos and [...]

WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small trusted groups of users or lists of friends. It is designed to enable small companies and small teams or Buddylists within larger companies to easily communicate and collaborate in a secure and efficient fashion, independent of physical network topology. WASTE currently [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – “Peer to peer” networks like Kazaa could prevent users from downloading music, movies and other copyrighted material if they had any desire to do so, media and technology experts said on Tuesday. Kazaa, Morpheus and other peer-to-peer networks are hailed as a revolutionary technology that allows users to swap any sort of [...]

The British record industry may sue internet song-swappers as part of a new campaign against online piracy. Andrew Yeates, director general of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) trade group, said it was hoping to encourage new, legitimate services. “We want to increase awareness of the legal implications of file-sharing. If these are not working, there [...]

Serverless, users/communities oriented Shared folders eXplorer Chat and messages exchange between users 100% Peer-To-Peer Direct request/answer-Download between your PC and The Remote Pc Password-protected private folder Added features : – Upload file ( send direct a file to a user ) – Links Highlight added in Chat – Download a folder, then saved as its [...]

from News.com A dispute over royalty rights on copy-protected CDs and other types of music discs is helping to stall the release of some new music technology, and could result in record labels owing tens of millions of dollars in back payments to music publishers. At issue are “double session” CDs that include two versions [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood’s greatest fear became a reality on Tuesday as film industry officials said a digital version of an Oscar “screener” was seen on the Internet after months of industry squabbling over whether sending out the videos to Academy Award voters would lead to movie piracy. A copy of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal of a lower court’s order that pulled the plug on Aimster, a file-swapping service similar to Napster in design. The justices on Monday declined without explanation to hear the case, which would have been the first Internet music piracy dispute to reach the high court. In general, [...]

A group of ReplayTV digital video recorder owners will on Monday ask a court to let other people with the systems join their lawsuit to allow them to skip TV commercials and send recorded programs from one digital device to another. “I want to give my nephews and nieces a break from the rampant consumerism [...]

According to the Freenet website, a new version of Freenet has just been released which, among other things, fixes a major bug which the developers blame for Freenet’s poor performance over the past few weeks and months. While Freenet development has been ongoing, this is the first announced release in several months.

Poisoned is a filesharing program designed for the Mac. It has access to the FastTrack and Gnutella networks and is being actively developed.v.50 changelog fixed some problems with loading gift brough back iTMS as an option reworked import to itunes disabled Auto Find More Sources got a new icon fixed some minor issues new giftd [...]

I never meant to cause any trouble. I was always the “good son.” I always did what I was told. I always washed the dishes without being asked, I always mowed the lawn on Saturday and washed my father’s car on Sunday. Yeah, I was the kind of kid parents could be proud of. I [...]

Lan2P Beta 8 now includes a simple chat tab for communicating with other members.Lan2P is a p2p system for local area computer networks which works in almost any situation, regardless of filtering and disabled services.For more information and download, visit: http://www.lan2p.com/

Smart File Transfer Solution www.FolderShare.com With A FolderShare Library You Can… Keep Files Synchronized Across Multiple Computers Collaborate and Share Files with Peers Access The Files You Choose From Any Computer The FolderShare Advantage: Unlimited File Space Unlimited File Transfers Downloads Automatically Resume Only Transfers Changed Sections of Files Queue offline files and FolderShare will [...]

Mute 0.2. Simple, Anonymous File SharingMUTE File Sharing is a new peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy.Version 0.2 2004-January-7–Added support for sharing paths with spaces.–Added a browsing dialog for sharing paths. –Fixed crash on download when sharing path does not exist. –Removed redundant quit menu item on Mac OS [...]