Peer-to-peer provider licenses music from Sony BMG in an effort to become a legal download service. The company behind the IMesh peer-to-peer file sharing technology has licensed content from Sony BMG Music Entertainment for its planned commercial service, it says. Bridgemar Services has been trying to reposition IMesh as a legal download service following the [...]

Microsoft has broken its silence over the decision to downgrade the default recommendations in its Windows AntiSpyware product, insisting that “absolutely no exceptions” were made for Claria Corp. Facing heavy criticisms for recommending that users “ignore” the existence of Claria’s adware products, Microsoft Corp. issued a public statement to explain that the change stemmed from [...]

Napster has put a new twist on the notion of being a loss leader. It has actually managed to sell more songs for rival online music services than for its own product, according to survey conducted by a university customer. Not a single University of Rochester student admitted to buying a song via Napster during [...]

The fallout of the recent Grokster v. MGM Supreme Court decision hasn’t meant much to the wellspring of new legally minded peer-to-peer companies who are looking to turn a pirate’s territory into a legitimate delivery system for music, movies and video games. While Grokster and StreamCast face more time in court, legal P2P software companies [...]

You know you’re in trouble when your adware fires you. Kazaa parent Sharman Networks issued a grumpy press release today noting that reports of its dissociation from adware maker Claria (formerly Gator) have been misunderstood Granted, Claria was the one to terminate its relationship with Kazaa, as first reported by my colleague Stefanie Olsen here. [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 22 /PRNewswire/ — File sharing is here to stay, and no one knows this more than Prodigem, an innovative new media marketplace for BitTorrent files and the brainchild of Stanford graduate student Gary Lerhaupt. Lerhaupt created Prodigem as a way for up-and-coming artists and companies to use the Internet to share [...]

Here is yet another installment of my psycho babble. This episode includes comments about the supreme court ruling and the horrible terror attacks in london, this episode also includes comments from Mike Weiss. This episode and every episode of The P2P Revolution Radio are availible on its offcial homepage www.thep2prevolution.com 100% free to download. Rick

Google has joined a gaggle of other companies to invest in a US broadband company that provides high speed net services over electricity cables. Exactly how much search engine outfit Google, investment bank Goldman Sachs and comms outfit The Hearst Corporation have ploughed into Current Communications has not been revealed. However, the dosh will be [...]

Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software, no spyware, no adware. It provides simple interface, multi languages support, and iTunes / iPod integration. ChangeLog: New set the filter on a per-search basis, instead of application-wide. No longer app crash if the destination folder is missing. Some minor [...]

Thursday July 7, 1:29 pm ET Consumers Will Be Able to Legally Download Games and Earn Cash Back at the Same Time SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, July 7 /PRNewswire/ — Wurld Media and Trymedia Systems today announced an agreement to make legitimate downloadable video games available to try and buy over the legal [...]

ratDVD is a new method of compressing DVDs, using RatDVD you can compress an entire DVD movie to about 1-3 gigs. In most cases DVDs are around 8-9 gigs, including menus, bonus features, audio, subtitles and video Angles. People using P2P networks can share or download these .ratDVD containers with ease. Check out the ratDVD [...]

Opera is known as the fastest and smallest full-featured browser, a first choice for people using older PCs and Windows 95 and a brilliant alternative to the default IE from Microsoft. Opera complies to all the current web-page standards, it has a completely new interface, an advanced mail/news reader, print preview, a huge bookmark collection [...]

As P2PForums first reported over a year ago, TrustFiles is anything but ‘trusty’. They continue to violate the GPL with their software. The leader of the company Marc Freedman is much better at issuing press releases then he is at bringing his users quality software. Slyck reported yesterday Marc is at it with the press [...]

Intel and actor Morgan Freeman’s movie production company, Revelations Entertainment, said Wednesday that they have formed a new venture aimed at distributing first-run movies over the Internet. The new company, called ClickStar, is taking on an unfamiliar and potentially controversial role in Hollywood circles that have viewed online distribution as a potentially destabilizing force on [...]

Jonathan Marlow has spent much of the last two years trying to persuade filmmakers to put their most valuable products on the Net. On some days, the task feels a little like pulling teeth. Marlow, a cinematographer and Amazon.com alumnus, is director of content acquisition at Greencine, a small San Francisco-based Netflix rival that is [...]

According to the Unofficial Opera Blog, version 8.02 of the browser will include BitTorrent support.

Rodi is a small-client P2P application, written in Java, that improves on BitTorrent by allowing both content searches and full anonymity. It’s released under the General Public License (GNU). The client can be accessed here. Even your IP address can be hidden using Rodi through a process called “bouncing.” That is, if A wants a [...]

MUMBAI, India–One of the critical ingredients for the $100 computer is probably in your garage. In about three months, a little-known company called Novatium plans to offer a stripped-down home computer for about $70 or $75. That is about half the price of the standard “thin clients” of this kind now sold in India, made [...]

July 4, 2005 — The music industry has been telling us for years that peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is a bad thing. But a New York company has decided the record labels had it wrong and that it merely needed to harness P2P’s power. Wurld Media announced last week that Peer Impact, its P2P online [...]

Consumers browsing the service, which was opened to the public just two days ago, have uncovered links to full versions of feature-length movies, TV shows and other content. As of Thursday morning, much of that content could be watched in its entirety on Google’s site. The company’s terms of service clearly state that anyone uploading [...]