In a testament to forcing people to sign up to avoid adverts, receive Gmail invites or take part in iPod scams, Zeropaid has reached it’s 200,000th member. Whatever the cynics say, today is a proud day for Zeropaid, for the 200,000 members mark has been passed. The site was initially set up 4 years ago [...]

HR.4077, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, has been approved by the United States’ House Judiciary Committee. The bill specifies up to five years’ jail for anyone making over a thousand copyrighted works available for download. That’s if the infringer is profiting from the action: ordinary P2P users would face up to three years simply [...]

Ants P2P is designed to protect the identity of its users by using a series of middle-men nodes to transfer files from the source to destination. As additional security, transfers are Point to Point secured and EndPoint to EndPoint secured. Change Log: Distributed search Engine – Each node performs periodic random queries over the network [...]

Altnet, a company that sells music and other digital goods through file-swapping services, sued the Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday for alleged patent infringement. The company, a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital Entertainment, contends that the RIAA has been infringing on one of its patents in the course of copyright enforcement efforts inside peer-to-peer [...]

iMesh is a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that lets you find, download, share and publish audio and video files, computer games, images, photos and just about any document, within a growing community of millions. Files are located on the computers of other iMesh users who have agreed to share them. Files can be transferred directly from [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that rap artists should pay for every musical sample included in their work — even minor, unrecognizable snippets of music. Lower courts had already ruled that artists must pay when they sample another artists’ work. But it has been legal to use musical snippets — a [...]

BearShare the world’s leading file-sharing client and Your Vote Matters – http://www.yourvotematters.org – , Working Assets’ non partisan voter registration website, launched a partnership to register BearShare’s massive audience US userbase to vote if they aren’t already registered. This innovative partnership marks the first time a file-sharing client has been used to register voters in [...]

Last week I spoke about the furore caused by the infamous P2P clients, which prompted RIAA to take action against them. And now that it has lost the legal battle against clients like Kazaa and Morpheus, it has started suing users based on the songs recovered from their hard disks. Somebody amongst our readers made [...]

If you are a Windows user and are looking to access a new P2P network, perhaps many P2P networks, then KCeasy is certainly worth looking into. Using various giFT plug-ins, an individual can access Gnutella, FastTrack and OpenFT. For the purposes of this article, we will cover the impressive OpenFT network which KCeasy was primarily [...]

Everyone knows that piracy can affect an artist’s bottom line, and very few people would argue that artists, programmers, and the like, should work for free in all instances. Indeed, while there is a lot of hostility to lobbying groups like the RIAA, most folks do want to support the bands and songwriters that they [...]

The Big Four record label cartel has gone after Shareconnector, a p2p site in The Netherlands. Shareconnector isn’t caving in, though. Instead, it’s taking Big Music on in what could be a milestone battle. Usually, when this happens, the site involved folds. Sometimes it re-surfaces somewhere else, sometimers it doesn’t. This time, however, Big Music [...]

Source:  eMule ScreenshotDownload Dear eMule users, Yes, you read correctly – a new version of eMule is released, coming with the following hightlights: [-]AICH: a new (additional) hashing system allows eMule to highly improve the corruption detection and handling, leading to less redownload in those cases[-]Low ID support for the Kad network: A buddy system [...]

Along with a releasing a new MSN Music service this past week, Microsoft has released a new version of it’s Media Player, integrating both together into one application. Microsoft wants Windows Media Player to be your one-stop multimedia headquarters. After a less-than-speedy installation, the app proposes to become the default player for a number of [...]

Microsoft’s newly launched MSN Music download service has a long way to go to catch up with iTunes and other online services, competitors say. Apple Computer Inc., a longtime rival and sometimes partner on Microsoft, said that the world’s largest software maker will have a tough time matching the 16 million songs downloaded every month [...]

By any measure, Napster Chief Executive Chris Gorog is one of the world’s biggest believers in digital music. Eighteen months ago, his company, Roxio, was a successful, if unspectacular, player in the CD-burning software market. Then, in a rapid-fire corporate transformation, he purchased the Napster brand name at a bankruptcy auction, bought the record-label-backed Pressplay [...]

MINNEAPOLIS — Twins fans are among the first to preview a unique new form of portable video technology that lets users bring digital recordings of their favorite programming virtually anywhere. The new product, the Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center, is on display at the Metrodome through Friday, and Twins fans can watch a demonstration of [...]

Apple Computer Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs offered Nobuyuki Idei, chairman and group CEO of Sony, the chance for Sony to come aboard Apple’s ITunes Music Store service, the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper reports in its September 2 edition. The offer would have allowed for joint operation of the service, the newspaper says. The offer [...]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Computer audio equipment maker Creative Technology Ltd. said on Thursday it would double its MP3 player product lines from its current eight by year-end, stepping up competition for rivals such as Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL – news)  Singapore-based Creative (CREA.SI) is fighting to expand its share of the fast-growing digital music market [...]

Source:  iMeshReleased:  August 31,2004License:  AdwareDownload:  iMeshV5  Publisher’s Description:iMesh 5 is the latest version of the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that lets you find, download, share and publish audio and video files, computer games, images, photos and just about any document. An ever-growing community of millions of registered users ensures quick location and download of virtually [...]

BearShare Homepage Download BearShare Screenshot Publisher’s Description:BearShare is a file sharing program that lets you, your friends, and everyone in the world share files. Built on Gnutella technology, it provides a simple, easy to use interface combined with a powerful connection and search engine that puts thousands of different files in easy reach. It is [...]