iMesh 5.0 – 100% CLEAN. NO Spyware, NO Adware, NO Popups. Simultaneously connect to Kazaa and Gnutella, so you get more results than Kazaa, Limewire and all the rest. Get Accelerated downloads with SuperCharged connections. Search for Music and Videos on iMesh from within Internet Explorer! Enjoy an enhanced media player. Have fun with an [...]

GNUnet 0.66 windows anonymous filesharing is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. GNUnet uses a simple, excess-based economic model to allocate resources. Peers in GNUnet monitor each others behavior with respect [...]

Whether we speak of SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative), CSS (Content Scrambling System) or SunnComm’s MediaMax, copy-protection technology has suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks. So much to the point when a typical file-trader is presented with the news that Macrovision has implemented a new protection technology, the event is usually met with cynicism. And [...]

After slow but steady growth, the then predominantly Ares network reached 100,000 users this time last year. It was a major event for the small network, which had previously stumbled alongside Piolet in the small network market. With help from the Warez P2P client, the network had grown to 300,000 less than three months later. [...]

IBM today announced it will offer a new, low-priced IBM POWER5™ processor-based server running the Linux® operating system (OS). The introduction of the IBM eServer™ OpenPower™ 710 marks IBM’s continued commitment to extend POWER5 performance for Linux environments to companies of all sizes. The powerful new IBM eServer OpenPower 710 provides a Linux OS-based alternative [...]

The global music industry is fighting a determined war on piracy, suing thousands of persistent violators from teachers to managing directors, its trade association says. “None of this makes us feel wonderful,” John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said. “For years, we sat back whilst our music [...]

Rumours that eXeem, the replacement for SuprNova, comes with adware called Cydoor that actually installs advertisements on users’ hard drives and pulls them up when the eXeem opens, are true. In other words, Cydoor gets free access to your hard-drive and, by implication, everything that’s in it. “The Cydoor Network allows online advertisers to target, [...]

The Ontario government on Canada is introducing interactive software meant to educate Grade 7 and 8 students about Net predators and child pornographers. Called CYBERCOPS, it, “provides scenarios based on real-life incidents to help students recognize tricks predators use to lure unsuspecting victims,” community safety and correctional services minister Monte Kwinter says, according to CTV. [...]

According to reports released Monday, two Web hosting companies based in Dallas, Texas were caught up in the Motion Picture Association of America’s crackdown on Web site and server operators involved in the illegal online distribution of movies and television content. Hosting providers The Planet Internet Services and Layered Technologies were host to sites and [...]

Court to revisit whether peer-to-peer networks are liable for users’ copyright violations. The U.S. Supreme Court has set March 29 as the date for oral arguments on whether companies providing peer-to-peer file-trading software should be held responsible for copyright infringement committed by users of their products. Ongoing Fight The arguments are part of a long-playing [...]

Multiple remote vulnerabilities reportedly affect KaZaA’s Sig2Dat protocol functionality. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to using it in critical actions. An attacker may leverage these issues to cause the affected application to crash, denying service to legitimate users, and to create files in arbitrary [...]

Why eXeem shouldn’t be replacing our bittorrent clients written by Joseph Farthing and Taliban http://www.methlabs.org/ From the early days of peer-to-peer (p2p) networking, most of the interest in the p2p scene was centred around Napster. However, this network had a fatal flaw. In one of the most famous technology lawsuits of recent times, various recording [...]

Almost every BitTorrent fan knows that about SuprNova’s untimely fate. The closure of SuprNova brought about widespread panic to those who depended on this Torrent listing site for their daily fixing of media. However, much like the demise of Napster or AudioGalaxy, this would prove to be a mere bump in the proverbial road as [...]

What is eXlite?eXlite is a version of the eXeem P2P client based on libtorrent, that does not contain spyware. 2. Does eXlite contain spyware? eXlite was sorely made to take out the spyware from eXeem so to make it clear eXlite does not contain spyware. 3. Do I need a serial? No, you DO NOT need a [...]

21.01.2005 – Public Beta Release eXeem™ v0.20 Public Beta has been released to the public. Everybody is now able to download it and give it a try before the final version comes out. There are still some bugs that we have not been able to find yet which is why the program is still in [...]

Just before Christmas we ran the Net’s first-ever Movie File Share Top Ten, based on statistics from Big Champagne. As we said at the time, with the MPAA horning in on the RIAA’s action, trying to sue people into doing things the Hollywood way, we thought it would be interesting to see what’s going on [...]

The last two days has been exciting in the eXeem arena with the release of both the official and lite beta client, after downloading both installers and making sure my computer would not melt I set out to learn about all the hype surrounding this new kid on the block. So here we go, the [...]

We believe that P2P and file-sharing will never go extinct. But a massive roll out of Industry services to rival P2P is imminent. This combined with a sustained legal pressure o­n file-sharing might drive it into obscurity. Here are five general “Survival Tips” for P2P sites and software developers.

Shortly after taking over Kazaa in late 2001, Sharman Networks began adding surreptitious spyware and adware to the installation files of the software, which they called Kazaa Media Desktop. Despite the adware and spyware, users were reluctant to turn their back on Kazaa Media Desktop. It remained a superior program, due to fast transfer speeds [...]

By:Bryan M. Demonoid was an indexing site that was shut down after the MPAA legal assault in mid December, offering a nice selection of torrents. Now in an announcement on Demonoid they have announced their return to the indexing family! *applause* Read the Announcement on Demonoid!