Delaware, US. based peer-to-peer file sharing technology developer Pando Networks announced today that it has raised $4 million from private equity investors BRM Capital and Wheatley Partners. Pando is developing an Internet distribution platform to facilitate the sharing of digital video images and stated that it will use its first financing round to develop next-generation [...]

HORNET anonymous p2p  (Beta 0.1.2.0) Hornet’s goal is to be a total overhaul of anonymouse file sharing through improvements to the core, gui, irc and im features of the jetiants core ants DNA Library . The major gui changes include changing the gui to a skinned gui, through the use of skinlf.New Irc and im [...]

By TOM ZELLER Jr. Published: December 6, 2004 he battle over digital copyrights and illegal file sharing is often portrayed as a struggle between Internet scofflaws and greedy corporations. Online music junkies with no sense of the marketplace, the argument goes, want to download, copy and share copyrighted materials without restriction. The recording industry, on [...]

Dec 2nd 2004 From The Economist print editionDespite the legal wrangles over music piracy, peer-to-peer technology has many uses and is here to stayIMAGINE an ideal global information-storage system. It would have to be huge, capable of delivering any one of millions of files, some of them of enormous size, to anywhere in the world [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work despite online file-trading services that allow users to copy songs and other material for free, according to a study released on Sunday. Recording labels and movie studios have hired phalanxes of lawyers to pursue “peer to [...]

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush signed a bill that renews a ban on Internet access taxes on Friday amid praise from lawmakers and trade groups who said the measure would encourage more people to sign up for high-speed broadband service. Bush said repeatedly on the campaign trail this year that a ban [...]

  * Plain Transfer – Don’t want Peer2Mail to split, zip and encrypt your files? Peer2Mail offer you the ability to send the files “as is…”. No encryption and no zipping, just plain email attachment. Please note that this method isn’t secure and some web mail providers might block the attachment   * Added auto-download and [...]

It’s been over half a year since the last release so you are supposed to enjoy this one accordingly. Important changes from 0.13 to 0.14: Added config option to become an OpenFT search node Added file renaming to library Added multi select to library Added ‘Recent Downloads’ folder to Library Made Library panels hidable Updated [...]

It’s that time of year again, the glorious consumer driven, shop till you drop, discover your local strip mall time. Ditch all that noise and cruz on over and support your favorite p2p portal Zeropaid.com. Zeropaid Clothing is now offering most items at half off the regular price till Jan 1 or when we run [...]

To Whom It May Concern, We would like to announce that P2P Network MediaSeek.pl has been placed on auction on eBay.The reason for that is we no longer wish to develop the system and at the same time do not desire for it to simply disappear. Hopefully somebody will be keen on continuing our work. [...]

Shawn Fanning’s Napster software enabled countless music fans to swap songs on the Internet for free, turning him into the recording industry’s enemy No. 1 in the process.   Five years later, now heading San Francisco-based Snocap Inc., Fanning is touting a new technology designed to help the music companies who once sued him into [...]

Slyck News: Exeem is a new file-sharing application being developed by the folks at SuprNova.org. Exeem is a decentralized BitTorrent network that basically makes everyone a Tracker. Individuals will share Torrents, and seed shared files to the network. At this time, details and the full potential of this project are being kept very quiet. However [...]

The international music recording companies are spending millions of dollars in legal fees these days. Their target – the online file swapping business that is allowing consumers around the world to avoid buying CDs by downloading songs and even complete albums for next to nothing. But the aggressive tactics of the record companies’ lobby group, [...]

Some Austin, Texas, music lovers got a temporary reprieve as an Austin court dropped a lawsuit against 250 people accused of file-sharing. The Recording Industry Association of America filed four lawsuits over the last four months, accusing hundreds of people of illegally downloading music from file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and Grokster. The RIAA sued [...]

Overriding severe objections from Sharman Networks’ counsel, Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox allowed an anti-piracy services provider based in New York to give evidence at the civil trial against owners of the peer-to-peer software Kazaa. Tom Mizzone, vice president of data services at MediaSentry, told the Federal Court today that his company was able to [...]

A flood of data has hammered several of the tracking servers for BitTorrent downloads, according to LokiTorrent, a Torrent network hub. The attacks apparently targeted the central BitTorrent directories used by people to find movies, music and other content on the file-swapping network, according to information posted Wednesday on LokiTorrent, a BitTorrent tracking Web site. [...]

LimeWire 4.2.4 is out. This is a service release in the 4.2 series which has some significant bugfixes. If you’re running an earlier 4.2 version, you may want to consider upgrading. The free version is available from the LimeWire Download Page, and the pro is available on your personalized Pro page.LimeWire 4.2.4 fixes the following:- [...]

Overse is Taking Beta Applications and Rewarding! Overse Networks went into development a little over a month ago and our team has been working non-stop to get it out in the public! But first we have decided to release a beta version to workout all the bugs and kinks which we are sure will be [...]

It is possible to trace users sharing unlicensed music files through their IP address, according to music labels’ first witness in their civil case against Sharman Networks, maker of peer-to-peer software Kazaa. Nigel Carson, a computer forensics investigator from KPMG, said Wednesday during a trial in Australia’s federal court that it is possible to locate [...]

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 [...]