A new revision to the popular bittorrent client Azureus has just been released.ChangeLog | Homepage | Download AZUREUS CHANGELOG———2005.05.25 | Azureus 2.3.0.2FEATURE: UI   | Console UI now has update check, alerting and DHT stats [Parg]FEATURE: UI   | SWT make torrent wizard remembers value for “add other hashes” [Parg]FEATURE: UI   | Console UI logging config [Fatal]FEATURE: [...]

All computer users–especially those who use P2P applications–should take a few steps to keep their computers in good shape. In this article I will outline the steps I’ve taken to automate most of the process using the Scheduled Tasks functionality of Windows. I have observed that many users of Windows don’t know about, or at [...]

eDonkey has just introduced an awesome new feature that replaces the need for link sites. Now you can create web pages and publish them on the eDonkey network. This means they will be nearly impossible to take down as long as people are interested in them. They call the feature catalogs. Catalogs can be downloaded [...]

“The long awaited first beta for the 2.2 release has finally arrived. We have fixed many problems and hope that this release is stable enough to be turned into a final soon.” Changes: You can find a rough overview of the changes since the 2.1 release in this thread at the Shareaza forums. Download

MP3 Newswire has a review of the Sony PSP not as a game portable, but as a portable media player (PMP). Basically, Sony has taken a page out of the iPod playbook and put their proprietary video and audio formats in the hands of millions of users in just several weeks. This gives them a [...]

Privacy tools can sometimes create strange bedfellows. That’s what has happened with an anonymizer system that was originally developed and funded by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to help government employees shield their identity online. It is now being co-funded and promoted by the civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation. The system, called Tor, allows [...]

This was covered from Wired to Slashdot to Slyck: Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent [...]

About 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. Web Site: http://cabos.sourceforge.jp ChangeLog: Changed quality character to black circle for English environment. (Windows/MacOS) Sorting device now works property for two results. Restore [...]

A lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain was forced to resign after a talk about P2P networks. You can read his side of the story on his blog (link below). “The day before the conference, the Dean (pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association “Promusicae” as I found out later, and he recognized [...]

Bittorrent, a powerful piece of software to allow the downloading of large files has exploded of late and is one of the top P2P programs available on the net. Since its inception many have wanted to see BT released from it’s system of trackers for something a bit more low key. Enter Azureus, a BT [...]

A Canadian appeals court has rebuffed an attempt by the recording industry to unmask 29 people accused of unlawfully sharing thousands of music files. The Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that said privacy rights must supercede the record labels’ copyright claims, at least in “the early stages of this [...]

A day after launching Netscape 8 and touting the browser’s security features, Netscape has released an update to fix several serious security flaws. The original Netscape 8, released early on Thursday, is based on version 1.0.3 of the open-source Firefox browser. Netscape thought the new browser was immune to security vulnerabilities in the Firefox software [...]

Sony kicked off the E3 expo in Los Angeles by releasing eagerly anticipated details about its upcoming PlayStation 3 and said the console will reach shelves in spring 2006. Boasting a new chip touted as powerful enough to rival most processors used in personal computers on the market today, the new console is designed to [...]

CANNES, France (Reuters) – With high-speed Internet connections on the upswing, piracy could hit the movie industry as hard as it did the music business, Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman warned. Freeman is telling movie makers that they must wise up quickly to stay ahead of illegal downloaders and file sharers who are using new software [...]

Azureus has had distributed tracker capability for a while, but it was never part of Bram Cohen‘s BitTorrent protocol. From the BitTorrent website: As part of our ongoing efforts to make publishing files on the Web painless and disruptively cheap, BitTorrent has released a ‘trackerless’ version of BitTorrent in a new release. Suppose you bought [...]

Netscape has released Netscape Browser 8.0, with a ton of new features. From the CNet Review: This version is built on the Gecko engine that powers the Mozilla Firefox browser (AOL Time Warner spun off the Mozilla team as a nonprofit in 2004), but it can also run the same engine as Microsoft Internet Explorer [...]

p2pnet.net News:- An outraged father says he’ll take on the Big Music cartel. If he does, it’ll be the first time one of the RIAA’s 10,306 subpoenas has resulted in an actual court appearance. And if the father can convince a judge he’s not responsible for mp3s the cartel’s RIAA says his daughter downloaded two [...]

A new security device has people asking the same ol question; is it possible to have total security while using p2p networks? iPhantom Review Coming Soon The device is called iPhantom, iPhantom is a Internet security device for your PC that is portable and easy to use. The iPhantom weighs under 4 ounces and is [...]

If you’ve ever had trouble playing a DVD while traveling, transferring songs from your iPod or watching TiVo-recorded shows on your computer, you’ve seen the dark side of digital rights management. DRM is meant to protect media publishers from wanton copying while still letting consumers fairly use the music, movies and other material they’ve bought. [...]

More than a third of the software installed on PCs worldwide during 2004 was pirated, with losses from unauthorized software increasing by $4 billion from 2003, according to a study released this week by the software trade group Business Software Alliance. Thirty-five percent of all software installed on PCs was pirated, down from 36 percent [...]