NeoNapster is a free file-sharing program based on the Gnutella protocol. Similar to Napster and Morpheus, NeoNapster gives users the ability to search for, download, and share music, videos, software, and more with millions of others. NeoNapster supports the most powerful Gnutella features, such as multihost download swarming, SHA-1 file hashing, Ultrapeer compatibility, download resuming, [...]

Based on GnucDNA, Kiwi Alpha uses the same peer 2 peer technology now used by Morpheus, one of the leading file sharing programs today. Kiwi Alpha supports the well known Gnutella and the newer G2 networks. With Kiwi Alpha you can easily download any media type such as audio, video, images, documents and software. We [...]

Producing the identities of Internet users alleged of wrongdoing happens so regularly, says a lawyer for Videotron, that he’s bewildered as to why other ISPs are fighting a motion from the music industry to hand over the names of people who share large volumes of songs online. “We do it on a regular basis. It’s [...]

The largest russian bittorrent site with a lot of asian movies for download, Cinemasia.Ru will participate in the joint project with Bulgarian film critics. On April, 13 the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has defined the winners who have received the Research Grant for Overseas Studies on Korean Films. 2nd winner is the project of Bulgarian [...]

The British group “Oasis” are finding more songs from their upcoming album “Don’t Believe the Truth” online. The first song to trickle its way online was titled “Lyla”, which began appearing on P2P networks in late March. However, due to an unexpected turn of events, nearly half of the album is now available.This unexpected turn [...]

British record labels lost the equivalent of £650m to illegal computer downloads over the last two years, according to the music industry’s trade body. The British Phonographic Industry said record labels lost £376m last year – up nearly £100m on the £278m they lost the year before – in the music business’s first attempt to [...]

By Richard Menta 4/20/05 Declan McCullagh’s article on CNET describes everything in lurid detail. Congress has passed a law – one that President Bush says he’ll sign – that gives the entertainment industry what it wants, the power to send file sharers to prison for a long time. As Declan describes it the law is [...]

The April 18 issue of BusinessWeek (with the cover story “IBM — Beyond Blue”) included a piece on the battle between IBM and Microsoft for control of the collaboration software market. In that article, BusinessWeek wrote that “IBM doesn’t offer a rival technology” to the peer-to-peer technology Microsoft now owned, via its acquisition of Ray [...]

According to Eran Reshef, the chief executive and co-founder of Blue Security, sophisticated and smart spammers are harvesting e-mail addresses from systems linked to P2P networks via such software as eDonkey 2000 and Gnutella. They’re going into P2P networks and harvesting addresses accidentally shared, then spamming every address they find,” said Reshef. P2P harvesting is [...]

The House of Representatives passed copyright legislation on Tuesday that would dole out criminal penalties to those who make unauthorized recordings of films in movie theaters. The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (HR357) also would permit technologies that allow users to skip objectionable content in movies viewed at home. The bill passed by [...]

KAHULUI, Hawaii, April 19, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) — Michael Jay Rossi, President of InternetMovies.com Inc., has filed a Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case “Rossi vs. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)” for the wrongful shutdown of his Website, http://www.InternetMovies.com in 2001. The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that good faith [...]

APRIL 13, 2005: Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library. The project is non-profit, open source, and built on open standards. [...]

Desktop publishing specialist Adobe Systems is buying multimedia applications maker Macromedia in a $3.4 billion deal geared toward building a software powerhouse. Adobe is best known for its PDF, or Portable Document Format, technology for presenting text files online. Macromedia’s flagship product is the Flash animation software. The all-stock deal, announced Monday, is designed to [...]

A Finnish based company called Viralg is predicting the end of unauthorised file sharing. The company claims their patented “overwrite” technology can mix files on a P2P network, corrupting downloads and rendering them worthless to play. “On the market where our competitors can only offer a mediocre service for blocking illegal file swapping our solution [...]

Frustrated at what they see as Jobs’ intransigence on song pricing and other issues, some record executives are now turning their hopes toward other partners, particularly mobile phone carriers eager to get into the business of selling music. They see this new focus as a way to broaden the digital music business, and lessen Apple’s [...]

Cerf, who co-created TCP/IP, told a roundtable on Internet governance in Sydney, Australia, this week that he had recently discussed file-sharing program BitTorrent with at least two interested movie producers. “I know personally for a fact that various members of the movie industry are really getting interested in how to use the Internet–even BitTorrent–as a…method [...]

NapShare V2.2b has been released. NapShare is a MUTE Network P2P client designed to protect your identity and privacy by using a Virtual IP address plus routing downloads through other nodes. It also encrypts connections to other nodes to prevent easy ISP or router sniffing that may be used to block it’s use. It’s a [...]

Chaos, a Linux distribution developed by Australian Ian Latter, harnesses the unused processing power of networked PCs, creating a distributed supercomputer that can crack passwords at lightning speed. The program remotely boots Linux on a PC without touching the hard drive, leaving the “slave” PC’s operating system and data secure and untouched. Thirty PCs connected [...]

“Demonstrating once again that much of the music industry’s threats against P2P users are often more bark than bite, Emory University announced that eight of the nine lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against file-sharing Emory students have been dismissed. Although the reasons for the lawsuit dismissals are still unknown, the fact [...]

Turn-key file storage and distribution solution for folks who don’t have their own websites FilePocket 1.2 is storage and distribution solution for people who need to make their files available on the Internet, but don’t have their own website or access to FTP server. This service is perfect for freelancers who work remotely and need [...]