Kazaa Protects Against MyDoom Virus
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. However, [...]
MUTE 0.2.1 released
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 [...]
Torrent Search 1.1
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). [...]
Napster Under Review
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 Client at [...]
KCeasy v. 0.9
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 [...]
FBI Logo to Grace Music CDs
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 DVDs. The deal, [...]
WASTE 1.4.1
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
provides the following services: Instant [...]
Kazaa Could Filter Copyrighted Music, Critics Say
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 digital material directly, but
they [...]
UK File Sharers Could Be Sued
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 has to [...]
Exosee 0.99.013
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 [...]
