On February 5, one of the most important italian eMule site (http://www.enkeywebsite.net/) reporting links to files being shared over the eMule network has been closed by the police. Other italian sites immediately (and voluntarily) closed “for maintenance”. Rumours have it that someone from the italian television, seeing his own productions shared over the eMule network, [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The parent of Tower Records, a high-profile recorded music and entertainment retailer, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after failing to find a suitable buyer, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters Thursday. The filing by MTS Inc., expected as soon as this week, would cap a long period [...]

K-Lite 2.6 is the follow up to Kazaa Lite.  The developers are trying to keep the program legal by not including the Kazaa.exe file in it’s installer.  Similar to Diet K, this program will keep your Kazaa clean of adware and include many of the most desired features of the previous Kazaa Lite releases. Most [...]

This is the first and absolutely exciting stable release since version 3.6.15 which was released last november. Changelog: Support for international searches. Users can now search for and share files for all languages – This works especially well if you have installed the latest Java Runtime Environment 1.5beta from Sun with support for all languages. [...]

A music industry group on Friday raided the Australian offices of peer-to-peer companies Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, along with the homes of key executives and several Internet service providers. Music Industry Piracy Investigations obtained a so-called Anton Pilar order Thursday from Justice Murray Wilcox, and began raiding premises in Queensland, New South Wales [...]

Internet users could collect paychecks rather than lawsuits when they share music through “peer-to-peer” networks like Kazaa, under a proposal outlined by an industry trade group on Thursday. Rather than losing millions of dollars in potential sales to online song swappers, the recording industry should give them a cut of the revenues when they distribute [...]

RealNetworks’ media player software contains vulnerabilities that could let an attacker take control of a PC on which the software is used to download multimedia files, the company confirms. Corrupt files posing as normal music and video files could allow an attacker to gain control of the downloader’s computer, the company says. However, RealNetworks stresses [...]

ExoSee version 0.99.014Exosee is the inventive filesahring programm which introduced search the public, searching chatrooms, searching buddieslists and share private to friends. File sharing program – 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 folderFeatures : – No [...]

Grokster, one of the three sanctioned FastTrack clients (iMesh, Grokster, Kazaa) finally received an internal upgrade. For almost a year, Grokster wallowed with an outdated FastTrack protocol. This coupled by harsh criticism regarding its third party software policy has made this client the least popular out of all the FastTrack clients. It is expected that [...]

Description Ares for windows Ares is a peer-to-peer program to search and download files of any type. Ares features multiple source downloads, auto-search and resume to complete downloads, easy to use filelist manager with intuitive author/genre sorting, rich searches and results, adultfiler and virus protection, built-in audio/video player with playlist and web-browser. Ares’s compatible HTTP [...]

Description Tired of other file-sharing communities such as Napster, Gnutella, and Scour? Tired of Napster Clones in general? Looking for something new? Get ready to change the way you think about peer-to-peer file-sharing. NeoModus Direct Connect offers a complete set of tools to locate any type of media. Unlike other impersonal, server-driven file-sharing networks, Direct [...]

Program : Mammoth Version : 1.3 Homepage : http://mammoth.sourceforge.net/ Download : http://members.lycos.nl/bverhaar/mammoth_0.1.3.exe Version 0.1.3 – 2004-01-30: + showing kazaa usercount + startpage displayed after client has connected (too bad wxURL cannot be threaded!) Version 0.1.2 – 2004-01-19: + search result columns can now be sorted + external links within the browser will now be executed [...]

CD copy protection company SunnComm Technologies said Wednesday said it has agreed to buy another firm to help move music antipiracy efforts to a new level. The company has struck an agreement to purchase the United Kingdom-based Darknoise Technologies, which claims to have technology that can guard against people copying CDs in even the most [...]

There’s a cover package in the San Francisco Bay Guardian this week about iPods, the Satanic nature of the RIAA, free speech, and how to share music “safely.” Contributors include old school punk rocker Victor Krummenacher of Camper Van Beethoven, XLR8R editor Vivian Host, and geek columnist Annalee Newitz. Articles to check out: Yaaaar! The [...]

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Pasadena, CA – A federal appeals court today heard arguments in an entertainment industry appeal of MGM Studios v. Grokster, a case that is testing the strength of the Supreme Court’s famous “Betamax” decision in the digital arena. “The MGM v. Grokster case will decide whether innovators need [...]

Program : Mute Version : Version 0.2.2 Homepage : http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

The eFarm-Project team is pleased to announce the release of eFarm-1.0. THe Program : http://www.efarm-project.net/pages/en/downloads.php After several months of developpement this release contains the following major new features: Mult-Threads core program allowing the server to handle between 10 000 and 20 000 connexions UDP protocol in the ed2k module New, very basic, HTTPD module which [...]

From News.com: Lawyers representing the entertainment industry and file-swapping companies will meet in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday as a federal appeals court hears the first arguments in a case likely to shape the future of online file swapping. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing a lower court decision made last spring in [...]

Azureus 2.0.7.0 has been released. Here is the change log from the Azureus Homepage: Changes: Azureus now identifies itself via User-Agent in tracker http communications Less flickering, on all platforms (tested on both windows and linux+GTK) Azureus now responds as Server: Azureus in tracker http comms Unwritten blocks in Pieces view shown in red Prioritizing [...]

Download Morpheus 4.0 Final: www.morpheus.com Search all the major file-sharing networks and connect with users of Kazaa, iMESH, eDonkey, Overnet, Grokster, Gnutella, LimeWire, G2 and others with Morpheus 4 – the only American file-sharing software ruled legal by a U.S. federal court. Instead of searching just one network, with Morpheus 4 you can search all [...]