We’ve tried plenty of Gnutella clients that just aren’t any good, and usually end up back with Frostwire or Limewire by default. Thankfully, Cabos has an excellent alternative for Windows and Mac users.
Cabos doesn’t support torrents, and it doesn’t have a built in media player, but who needs that anyway? Most of us have favorite [...]
It’s no secret that people use peer to peer software like BitTorrent or Lime Wire to download copyrighted movies, music, and software. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t legitimate uses for the technology. Next time you need to explain to your ISP that while you’ve been using massive amounts of bandwidth, you haven’t actually been [...]
DDoS attacks are hardly unusual. A site says something controversial that gets under the wrong person’s skin, and it’s not long before they get flooded with enough requests to knock out their servers temporarily. When an attack happened over the weekend at the popular webshow site Revision3 , they started to wonder what they had [...]
The closure of Demonoid, one of the most popular torrent trackers online, spread unrest and despair both far and wide. Entire forum topics were set aside for Demonoid refugees, users who had come to rely on Demonoid for its exhaustive torrent listings and wealth of harder-to-find music, programs, and more.
Take heart, you refugeees, and [...]
The closure of Demonoid, one of the most popular torrent trackers online, spread unrest and despair both far and wide. Entire forum topics were set aside for Demonoid refugees, users who had come to rely on Demonoid for its exhaustive torrent listings and wealth of harder-to-find music, programs, and more.
Take heart, you refugeees, and [...]
Would you pay an additional tax on your internet connection in exchange for a world where it’s illegal to wrap content with Digital Rights Management? What if that same world included the right to file-share to your hearts content with legal indemnification? TorrentFreak reports Dutch politicians are warming to the idea of abolishing DRM, taxing [...]
Microsoft is doing some connecting with leading edge suppliers in Europe to boost its Live service. Soon 375 millions people are going to be able to IM each other using mobiles or PC’s though a deal with Orange in France. The new service will be called Orange Messenger by Windows Live. The application will essentially [...]
Kazaa doesn’t shine as brightly as it once did among the stars of p2p download services, but the venerable name in illegal downloads today announced, through a settlement with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI), that it will immediately become a legitimate download service.
The settlement also lays out a one-time $100 million [...]
Do you have contacts on MSN Messenger, but prefer to use Google Talk? Why not open one IM instead of two? GTalk2VoIP is an application that supposedly allows you to call regular phone numbers from Google Talk, as well as chat with MSN Messenger contacts. There is no software to install, just simple add the [...]