The tantalising prospect of DVDs capable of holding almost a terabyte of data – or several hundred movies – has been presented in a patent issued to US storage company Iomega. The US patent describes a disc that could store 40 to 100 times more information that a conventional DVD, using more nanometre-scale sloped ridges [...]

PARIS — Record labels and movie studios are counting on the courts to help wage their war against global online piracy. But in France, some courts are refusing to go along. Judicial activism is roiling the entertainment industry here, as judges release convicted fileswappers with suspended sentences associated with otherwise draconian penalties stipulated by copyright [...]

Slashdot is reporting that Bram Cohen has launched the Official BitTorrent Search Engine. Here’s what Slashdot had to say: The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It’ll really be down after [...]

I would like to introduce you to Paul Martini, CEO of Phantom Technologies and creator of the iPhantom. Mr. Martini has agreed to sit down and talk about his new product. Here is a little about the iPhantom product iPhantom is a Internet security device for your PC that is portable and easy to use. [...]

Version 5.0.0 of both Bearshare and Bearshare Lite has been released. BearShare 5.0.0 is the latest version of our leading file sharing program. Intuitive design, millions of users, safety features and quick setup – what more could you ask for? How about Free exclusive BearShare music, real time help with common questions and Free tools! [...]

We have received a lot of emails this morning about EliteTorrents.org being shut down by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Their site is gone, replaced by a large red page with lots of givernment logos and some text stating: “THIS SITE HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY SHUT DOWN BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND [...]

Downloading movies on the Internet is anything but new, however this avid film fan predicts that “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” will change the scene forever. I came to this conclusion when I saw a blurb about downloading the film on a CNN news report about the popularity of the movie. This will turn [...]

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 [...]