Ipsos-Insight, a global marketing research firm published a paper outlining findings in a recent study about video/movie downloading. Ipsos reports that 100 million Americans are aware of internet movie downloading and show signs of the early mp3 download movement. This topic “movie downloading on the rise” has been the talk of the town for the [...]

As Apple Computer employee number 31, Raskin advanced the design of user interfaces. Jef Raskin, the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces, died Saturday at age 61. He had been diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer, his family says in a statement. Raskin joined Apple Computer [...]

The concept of commercial file-sharing or P2P is hardly a new idea. Some of the more recent memories of commercial P2P was Napster, Inc. Towards the end of its beleaguered life, this once proud P2P network teamed up with German Entertainment company Bertelsmann BMG. This occurred during the latter parts of Napster’s life, specifically in [...]

Microsoft is changing its activation policy for new copies of Windows XP. From the 28th of February Microsoft plans to disable internet activation for XP product keys printed on the Certificates of Authority (CoA) labels from the world’s top 20 OEMS. The move should not affect most customers who have Windows XP preinstalled on their [...]

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On February 16, 2005, Microsoft released their anti-spyware agent name “Microsoft AntiSpyware.” The response from the release so far has been generally well received, even if it was not home grown by Microsoft. Microsoft bought the intellectual property rights of Giant AntiSpyware, and marketed it under their own name. The software is free of charge. [...]

Once again proving how ridiculous efforts of lawmakers to outlaw file sharing technology truly is, the online magazine Home Computer Magazine has decided to harness the powerful technology of Bit Torrent. David Talyor, creator of the magazine says, “When we were looking at creating this magazine, we realized that the potential load on our server [...]

On Feb. 17th, 2005 a cease-and-desist letter was issued to the host of betallica.com, by Sony/ATV claiming “substantial and irreparable injury”. Beatallica are Beatles cover/parody band, playing all your favourite Beatles songs in the style of Metallica. However, Songs like “Leper Madonna” & “Everybody’s Got A Ticket To Ride Except For Me And My Lightning”, [...]

Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA) Thursday announced the beginning of a third round of anti-piracy campaign targeting people who upload or download pirated movies, including films nominated for the upcoming Academy Awards.MPAA officials declined to say how many suits it had filed or whether the illegal copies were made by video camera taping in [...]

The recording industry is appealing a federal court’s ruling that it can’t force Internet providers to identify music downloaders under a disputed copyright law, calling such pressure “a critically important tool” in blunting illegal file-sharing worth billions of dollars. The Recording Industry Association of America wants the entire 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to [...]

Last year, P2PForums decided to compile a guide to avoiding rogue P2P sites after it had become apparent that a large number of surfers were falling for file-sharing related scams all over the net. The list has steadily grown since then, and it doesn’t appear that those type of “pay-to-get-free-software” outlets will be disappearing any [...]

Publisher: Ants P2PHomepage: Ants P2PDownload: File Download ListANtsP2P Setup 0.9.5 Windows Download Publisher’s Description:ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net. It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable, hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others. Supports torrent downloads & auto-resume. Changelog:- New Protocol 0.0.9., [...]

The LokitTorrent shut down has stirred up a tremendous amount of speculation regarding the events surrounding this closure. Initially, the LokiTorrent website posted a notice that it was being sued by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA.) Instead of folding like most other BitTorrent sites, it decided to fight back. Over the course of [...]

Avid readers of Geek.com are aware of the MPAA’s recent crackdown on BitTorrent-based P2P file-sharing sites. Many sites like SuprNova.org were shut down, but one site remained: LokiTorrent.com. Vowing to fight the MPAA with its own set of lawyers–financed by donations from LokiTorrent users–LokiTorrent collected nearly US$40,000 before finally going under (see our coverage) … [...]

Publisher:  Cabos ProjectHomepage:  Cabos Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software, no spyware, no adware. It has simple interface, multi languages support, and iTunes / iPod integration.  It supports firewall-to-firewall transfer and UPnP router. Cabos requires Windows 2000 or later, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, Mac OS [...]

ShareReactor was at one time the big daddy of all ED2K link sites. That all ended when Swiss authorites came swarming down on its Administrator SimonMoon. They managed to knock ShareReactor offline. Not to long after that SimonMoon did a number of interviews to keep the community updated. He then launched RespectP2P.org as a place [...]

Publisher:  Warez EntertainmentHome Page:  Warez P2PLicense: AdwareScreenshotDownload Publisher’s Description:Warez is a spyware-free file-sharing program. Search for and download your favorite music and video files shared by other users on a free peer-to-peer network. Warez’ advanced queuing system and multisource swarmed downloads allow you to get what you want in the shortest amount of time. Warez [...]

All Firefox users are encouraged to download security update at mozilla.org February 24, 2005, (Mountain View, CA). The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today released an update to its award-winning Firefox 1.0 browser. The Firefox security update is available for the 27 million users who [...]

The Public Beta for PeerGuardian 2 is now available! Available for download from http://peerguardian.methlabs.org We will be answering questions about this on IRC server irc.unitedp2p.net, channel #methlabs for the most part of today. We welcome all members of the media and users to attend, and we will try to clear up any problems you may [...]

According to the complaint filed in United States District Court in Nashville, members of a girls’ basketball team visiting Livingston Middle School in Tennessee spotted the camera right away. “It was high up in a corner, near a ceiling tile in the visitors’ locker room,” said the girls’ lawyer, Mark Chalos. “It seemed to look [...]