Online file-sharing and other digital piracy persist, but a gradual turnaround in U.S. music sales that began last fall picked up in the first quarter of this year, resulting in the industry’s best domestic sales in years. Overall U.S. music sales – CDs, legal downloads, DVDs, etc. – rose 9.1 percent in the first three [...]

Features Support for MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA, WMV and NSV. HTML (Linux/Windows) and Windows task-bar icon interface Remote configuration via any web browser Extremely low memory footprint and CPU load One click streaming – click on any peercast:// URL to start listening† Direct streaming – PeerCast can act as a standard streaming server such as [...]

More about P2P-Radio P2P-Radio can distribute audio streams in the MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats and video streams in the NSV format over the Internet. This is done in a peer-to-peer way. The broadcaster doesn’t need to send the stream to every single listener, because the listeners distribute it among themselves. Properties of P2P-Radio: Easy [...]

TechTV has lots of streaming video from a recent interview with new Napster President Brad Duea. He’s a former Roxio exec, and confident that Napster will be able to fight for market share against the likes of iTunes for a long time. But what about when Microsoft jumps into the game?

NODEZILLA Grid Network – April 12 – Nodezilla is a secured, distributed and fault tolerant routing system (aka Grid Network). It’s main purpose is to serve as a link for distributed services built on top of it (like File Sharing, chat, efficient video multicasting streaming, secured file store …). Nodezilla provides cache features; any server [...]

Lan2P is a ZERO-CONFIG peer-to-peer file sharing system for local area computer networks. It takes advantage of the quick communication speeds and structure of networked computers and equipment. Don’t bother with HTTP Tunneling, Proxy Tunneling, or anything similar! Lan2P is the best peer-to-peer (p2p) system for sharing and trading files over a LAN. Summary: Lan2P [...]

Added caching of search result to prevent lockups of main thread Added simple filtering of search results (disabled by default) Fixed crash on cancelling downloads when auto clear was on Added multi selection for search results (disabled by default) Added Pause/Resume/Find Sources for All downloads Made browser start page configurable via config file Fixed problem [...]

A feature rich and graphicaly empowered bittorrent client written in python. Features Queuing and downloading of multiple torrents. (Starting, stopping, pausing, queue up, queue down etc) Real-time list of peer addresses and their statistics. Reverse DNS toggle-able. Advanced Progress bar graphically illustrates which pieces of the file have been downloaded. A graph to display upload and [...]

By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind. This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, Cambridge University’s Professor Ross Anderson. In his vision, people around the world would post stories via anonymous P2P services like those used to [...]

Microsoft plans to announce Monday that it has reached a $440 million legal settlement and licensing deal with the InterTrust Technologies, a private company and a pioneer in the development of software to protect digital music and movies from piracy. The settlement of InterTrust’s patent infringement suit, filed in 2001, is the latest in Microsoft’s [...]

MediaSeek New Version 0.9.0 provide us very new and cool features Include: Web-based interface (including WAP) Ability for users to communicate (forum, comments) Ability to queue off-line files (download starts when the file becomes available) Remote management – ability queue files from any computer or mobile phone MP3 Support (64-320 kbps VBR & CBR) High [...]

Mercora is a peer-to-peer social network that enables you to find, communicate and share interests with friends and family. You do all these things through the Mercora application which uses peer-to-peer technologies to directly connect you with your friends on the network. Here are things you can do with it: Create a network of friends [...]

iMesh for FREE… iMesh 4.5 is the latest version of our leading file sharing program. With millions of registered users, iMesh gives you access to countless digital media and other files made available by iMesh users and professional content providers. iMesh 4.5 has been designed for a better and more intuitive user experience.Join now to [...]

Current version: 3.4.2, released on 2004-04-04. This will probably be the last bugfix release before 3.5. New in 3.4.2: Fixed some bugs, including an important tracker bug Added ‘warning message’ so trackers can send non-fatal human readable messages to clients Fixed problem where some users got ‘could not find file’ message New in 3.4.1: Client [...]

MyNapster 3.5 has been released ! the long wait for this update has definetly payed off, and has been well worth waiting for. MyNapster now supports alot more, making it one of the leading filesharing programs out there. This filesharing tool isnt just for Music. You can download any filetype imaginable with this program. with [...]

The PlayFair project, which removes fair-use restrictions from music purchased through Apple’s online store, has become the latest victim of offshoring. Actually, that’s not quite true: only the hosting provider has moved to India. Not surprisingly, Apple has used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to ask SourceForge to remove the project. SourceForge declined to use [...]

Search all the major file-sharing networks and connect with users of Kazaa, iMesh, eDonkey, Overnet, Grokster, Gnutella, LimeWire, G2, and others with Morpheus 4.0.2, the only American file-sharing software ruled legal by a U.S. federal court. Instead of searching just one network, search all major P2P networks at the same time, accessing millions of users [...]

This new version of Shareaza improves compatibility with eMule v0.42 and has other network improvements. Magnet URI orDirect DownloadIt is recommended that everyone upgrades Along with this version we’d like to announce the Shareaza wiki. It is comprehensive guide to Shareaza, and we’d like to invite the forum regulars to contribute their knowledge to the [...]

Zombie PCs infected with the NetSky-Q worm are set to launch distributed denial of service attacks against P2P and warez sites tonight. The worm will attempt to flood the main Web sites of KaZaA and eDonkey with spurious traffic between 00:01 8 April and 11 April (time taken from system clocks). Other sites including www.cracks.st, [...]

British telecoms giant BT Group (BT.L) launched a new software business on Tuesday to protect music, movies and photographs from digital piracy. In making the belated plunge into the brutally competitive digital-rights management (DRM) software market, BT will be going head-to-head with some of the world’s largest software and technology companies including Microsoft Corp, Sony, [...]