Torrentopia is an easy-to-use bit-torrent client with some advanced features *Search for .torrent files in the most popular search engines*Fully customizable user interface, with several skins included*Embedded web browser with links to the best .torrent sites, you can add your own favorites too*Create .torrent wizard to help you share your files with the rest of [...]

DICE is hybrid server to host IRC clients and opennap clients, and has capability of web server, on Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003.DICE version 0.84 was released (2004/04/27)What’s newImplemented compulsive channel-join as “/shell admin forcejoin” commandAdded the upper limit of the size of per-thread heap to remove memory leakAdded configuration to change the size of [...]

MusicNet said it will power a service called Ctrax that will provide low-priced music downloads at up to 20 U.S. universities in the fall of this year. Ctrax is being offered by Cflix, which delivers educational and entertainment video-on-demand services to universities. Ctrax will offer more than 700,000 songs from MusicNet’s library and features customized [...]

 Online technology company CNET Networks on Monday launched a free digital music service, allowing people to search and download what it said were thousands of songs contributed by independent and unsigned artists. The service, based on CNET’s Download.com Web site, has been collecting music for the past few weeks, encouraging musicians to register on the [...]

Driven largely by fears of copyright lawsuits, more than 17 million Americans, or 14 percent of adult Internet users, have stopped downloading music over the Internet, a survey finds. But the overall percentage of people who say they currently do so has inched back up since November, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said [...]

Purchase 2 Zeropaid Clothing shirts are regular price and we will send you a free Zeropaid Beanie To all you file sharing junkies out there, Zeropaid.com is running a deal you can’t pass up. Zeropaid will send you a free Zeropaid Beanie (white / black) for visitors that purchase 2 or more Zeropaid Clothing t-shirts. This [...]

Well for the past 4 years Chris Myden has ran a site called Elite DAE which is dedicated to teaching people how to create MP3s using the best tools and methods available. Chris Myden is heavily involved in the audio community, and keeps himself up to date on the latest techniques and software to achieve [...]

If a new report is correct, despite the fact that Big Music’s ongoing sue ‘em all campaign is failing to stop Americans from downloading music and sharing files online, its relentless victimization of people who swap music is still having an effect. The Big Five record labels – EMI (UK), UMG (France), BMG (Germany), Sony (Japan) and [...]

David Bowie has invited fans to bootleg his music — and he’s offering prizes for the most creative “theft”. The musician’s website urges fans to mix classic Bowie songs with material from his latest album, “Reality,” to create a “mash-up” — a track that uses vocals from one song superimposed over the backing tracks of [...]

The threat of legal action by music labels is having a mixed impact on song-swapping over the internet, a survey has found. Some 14% of Americans online said they had stopped downloading music, said the Pew Internet research centre in the US. But at the same time, the study found more people were once again [...]

Please upgrade to stable build 5077. You can do this by using the update.sh utility on *nix, or freenet-webinstall.exe on Windows, or by downloading the jar from here. This build merges an enormous quantity of work from the unstable branch, including a fix for a very serious bug affecting inserts, some optimizations, refactoring, many more [...]

PT Forgent Networks said Friday it sued 31 major hardware and software vendors, including Dell and Apple Computers, for allegedly infringing on its claim to an algorithm used in the popular JPEG picture file format. If the suits are successful, they could lead to an increase in prices for tools and software used to create [...]

The LimeWire 3.9.5 beta is released, with the pro version available from a link on your Pro download page, and the free version (with NO BUNDLED SOFTWARE) available from the LimeWire download page.Changes in 3.9.5 include:- Massive search result improvements. The following issues are just some of those that were addressed:Speed: No more massive CPU [...]

Morpheus is a brand of peer-to-peer file sharing products that has been downloaded over one hundred million times all around the world. Morpheus is a communications tool that allows users to connect together with users of the Morpheus software as well as other peer-to-peer technologies to form a user network. Morpheus users may search for [...]

What is Overnet?                         Overnet is the most advanced file sharing application                         around. It is a completely decentralized peer to peer                         network. It allows you to trade any type of file, mp3s,                         video, images, software, etc. It runs on Windows, Mac OS                         X, and Linux. It is robust, fast and easy [...]

OverviewBTQueue is an alternative BitTorrent client for professional users who do not want beautiful and complex GUI. Instead, they only concern about performance and usability. BTQueue is a console-based BT client with queue functionalities running on top of BitTornado. It is designed to work like IRC so that users can ask for information they want. [...]

Pressing on in its fight against illegal Internet distribution of copyright-infringing materials, the U.S. Department of Justice today announced a massive antipiracy sweep of at least 120 locations worldwide, including 80 domestic searches in 27 states. The FBI, coordinating with law enforcement in at least 10 foreign countries, has seized computers and servers said to [...]

The San Diego FBI said Thursday that it served six search warrants as part of an international crackdown on groups trading illegally-downloaded music, movies and business and gaming software. Agents with the FBI’s Cybercrime Squad executed the warrants Wednesday at three homes and two businesses in San Diego County. No arrests have been made. More [...]

Almost a year after being taken down by a RIAA/MPAA lawsuit, I’m proud to say that FastTrackMovies is back! We’ve completely redone the site, added tons of new features, moved hosting to a country with no DMCA obligations, and changed our name. We’re now known as ShareTheFiles, as we’re serving ed2k, FastTrack, and Magnet links [...]

The major labels are looking at increasing the price of iTunes Music Store downloads to as much as $2.49 – with experts predicting the move could kill the service. The US record industry believe iTunes song are too cheap, and the five top labels (Universal Music Group, EMI, BMG, Sony and Warner Music) are discussing [...]