NeoNapster 3.7
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, [...]
Kiwi 2.0
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 didn’t include player [...]
Videotron says it’s ready to ID owners of IP addresses accused of song piracy
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 not [...]
Russian bittorrent website received the grant from South Korea
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 [...]
Partial Oasis Album Spreads Through BitTorrent
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 [...]
Record labels count cost of music piracy
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 [...]
Copyright Bill Passed in Congress Will Criminalize File Sharing
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 written quite [...]
IBM doesn’t like peer-to-peer
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 [...]
Spammers Mining P-To-P For Addresses
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 [...]
House OKs Family Copyright Bill
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 [...]
