Kazaa is an “engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen,” an attorney for the music industry said during Monday’s start of the Australian trial against peer-to-peer software distributor Sharman Networks. Attorney Tony Bannon told a federal court hearing, presided over by Justice Murray Wilcox, in Sydney that the 100 million [...]

Mute is designed to protect the identities of its users by using a series of middleman nodes to transfer files from the source to destination. Change Log:  1. *** New DOWNLOAD QUEUE *** that will activelysearch for new sources for downloads after restartingthe application. The queue will also handle resuming of downloadsmuch better than in [...]

Industry eyes are turning toward Oz as more than 50 lawyers begin waging a courtroom battle over Kazaa, the peer-to-peer technology owned by Australia-based Sharman Networks that touts some 60 million users worldwide. The major record labels and 25 other North American, European and Australian record company “applicants” brought the federal court action in Sydney [...]

Peer-to-peer program Kazaa is the No. 1 spyware threat on the Internet, according to Computer Associates International. Through its PestPatrol research, CA found that Kazaa posed a greater threat than other programs in its top five spyware list because of its widespread popularity. Kazaa claims that its software has been downloaded 214 million times. CA [...]

JetiAnts.tk is a anonymous P2P filesharing and instant messenger application designed to protect the identity of its users by using a series of middle-nodes to transfer files from the source to destination. This means no direct IP to IP connection shows which files are available, only Virtual Adresses (ID´s) are used. This keeps your IP [...]

A small peer-to-peer start-up has won rights from three of the four major record labels to distribute their music online. The deals with Peer Impact, a new division of online marketing company Wurld Media, continues the labels’ gradual warming trend toward peer-to-peer services. Top label executives have increasingly said they are willing to support file-swapping [...]

http://www.kazaa.com/ Kazaa Offers Unlimited Free Internet Calls With Latest Software Release 3.0SYDNEY, 23 November 2004 – Sharman Networks Limited today launched Kazaa v3.0. New Kazaa Version Includes “Skype”; Takes Peer-to-Peer Technology Beyond File Sharing to Free Online Calls SYDNEY, 23 November 2004 – Sharman Networks Limited, distributor of the popular file sharing software, today launched [...]

Northern California – A federal judge in California has put a roadblock in front of the movie studios’ lawsuits targeting filesharers. Last week, members of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed 11 lawsuits against hundreds of people they accused of using file-sharing networks to share infringing copies of movies. They sued groups of [...]

While Russian Music Services like Allofmp3 and MP3Search are growing more popular every day, little or nothing is is heard from the RIAA or IFPI on this subject. Obviously, the RIAA is powerless in Russia, but they seem to have found a way to thwart Russian sites by lobbying at US companies. PayPal has blocked [...]

While the music industry attempts to shutter peer-to-peer services in court and in Congress, one company is using P2P networks to promote and pay artists. Shared Media Licensing, based in Seattle, offers Weed, a software program that allows interested music fans to download a song and play it three times for free. They are prompted [...]

Record industry executives hold it as an article of faith that the advent of file-sharing Web sites like Napster and Kazaa was largely responsible for a stunning decline in the sales of recorded music. From 1999 to 2003, after all, the number of compact discs and other forms of recorded music shipped in the United [...]

WinMX Beta Site What is WinMX?WinMX is a FREE file-sharing program like no other.  It allows you to connect, download, and share files with MILLIONS of other users through the decentralized WinMX Peer Network.  Once WinMX is installed, you’ll have access to one of the largest and most diverse networks of shared media files in [...]

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Once chided for jumping the gun with its Mozilla-based browser, Netscape is gunning to surpass the original with its next release. Netscape on Wednesday confirmed an earlier report that it planned to release a new browser based on the Mozilla code. The America Online unit this week issued an invitation for people to sign up [...]

(Courtesy Daniel Terdiman Wired.com staff writer) Create a useful technology, and it’s only a matter of time before advertising worms into its heart. Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, is inviolate space no more. A new pilot program from FeedBurner embeds ads in the feeds of a number of the company’s content-publishing partners. And while some [...]

New Technology Allows Many Firewalled Users to Share Files For the First Time Lime Wire LLC, (www.limewire.com), the leading designer and developer of advanced P2P file sharing software, announced today the release of LimeWire 4.2, a superior file sharing application introducing firewall to firewall transfer technology, network connections up to four times faster than before, [...]

The tool that lets viewers control the TV will soon sport ‘billboards’ and track viewing habits.   When it debuted in 1999, TiVo revolutionized the TV experience by wresting control of screen time from advertisers, allowing viewers to record shows and skip commercials. TiVo’s slogan said it all: “TV your way.”Behind the scenes, though, TiVo [...]

Universal Music Group has licensed songs from its stable of artists including U2 and Eminem to a company that has developed technology designed to prevent the unauthorized distribution of audio tracks over online file-sharing networks, a source familiar with the venture said. The record company signed the deal with San Francisco-based Snocap Inc. with an [...]

Publisher:  Jacek SiekaDownload DC++ is an open source client for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the internet without restrictions or limits. The client is completely free of advertisements and has a nice, easy to use interface. Firewall and router support is integrated and it’s easy and convenient to [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America said Tuesday that it filed an unspecified number of lawsuits against people who trade copyrighted movies online, following through on plans announced earlier in the month. The organization also said it will release free software to help parents and other computer owners identify all the music, movie and peer-to-peer [...]