Found at 2/8/2011 via www.allaboutjazz.com Here we go again. MP3 Rocket is mostly known for being a LimeWire spin-off. Not anymore. The company has dropped the P2P functionality of their service and gone legit—sort of. Due to the declining quantity and quality of the MP3s available over the Gnutella network, as well as mounting legal concerns, they have decided to reposition themselves as YouTube downloading technology... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 11/5/2010 via siliconangle.com While there are several helper apps like Transdroid to support P2P application for Android, they serve mainly as a remote client for torrent sites like BitTorrent and Gnutella clients. FrostWire P2P for Android a Beacon in Limewire?s Downfall is a post from: SiliconANGLE Subcribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 10/29/2010 via www.computerworld.com The demise of the Gnutella client, LimeWire (a study in 2008 showed it was still the number one peer-to-peer client eight years after was first released!), has us reminiscing about some of the popular file sharing applications of the past, which not only opened up a whole new world of file sharing for us and expanded our musical taste. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 10/27/2010 via www.macnn.com LimeWire late Tuesday said that it had secretly installed a 'cut-off' switch in its peer-to-peer client to accompany the court-mandated withdrawal of its app. After a rumor from PCMag, company representative Tiffany Guarnaccia acknowledged to CNET that a summer update had given LimeWire the ability to isolate clients from the Gnutella network, rendering the app useless. It had also changed its ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 10/26/2010 via www.readwriteweb.com In a major victory for record labels and a major bummer for P2P file-sharers, the Gnutella-based download client LimeWire has been ordered to immediately stop distributing and supporting its software. U.S District Judge Kimba Wood handed down a 17-page permanent injunction today, and an announcement on the Limewire site shutters the site and the client no longer functions. Judge Wood found ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 10/26/2010 via www.pcmag.com Lime Wire LLC has "turned off" the Gnutella-based LimeWire peer-to-peer service via an isolation technology the company covertly installed, a source close to the company said. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/29/2010 via www.sfgate.com Justin Frankel, the computer software developer who created the Winamp MP3 software, is selling a four-bedroom, 3.5-bath Victorian-style home in the Mission District's historic Liberty Hill area for $2.595 million. He purchased the 3,000-square-foot... Winamp - Justin Frankel - Gnutella - Mission District San Francisco California - MP3 More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 7/11/2010 via gizmodo.com Were you a Comcast subscriber between April 1, 2006 and December 31, 2008? Did you use Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack, or Gnutella? Yes? Then it's payday for you, to the tune of $16, as the now infamous PSP class action lawsuit against Comcast has resulted in a previous mentioned $16 million settlement fund. You have until August 29, 2010 to file a claim. [ Ars Technica ] More » More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 7/8/2010 via arstechnica.com Despite a campaign to derail the settlement, a long-running class-action lawsuit against Comcast and its P2P-blocking ways has ended. If you were a Comcast subscriber between April 1, 2006 and December 31, 2008, and you used the Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack, or Gnutella P2P networks, congratulations?you've just won $16 in the litigation lottery. A California resident filed Hart v ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 2/19/2010 via www.gamasutra.com Look at about 200 popular games on leading peer-to-peer platforms like BitTorrent and Gnutella, and see over 9.78 million successful illegal downloads in just one month, says the Entertainment Software Aassociation. Alongside that estimate of December 2009's illegal download numbers, mod chips and game copiers are still the largest obstacle in the war on game piracy, finds the ESA in a new study ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 12/25/2009 via www.engadget.com More than two years after information about Comcast's data delaying techniques came to light, a class action lawsuit over the issue has come to a close with a settlement of $16 million and no statement of wrongdoing from the cable giant. That means Comcast continues to tout its newer bandwidth management protocols and those of you that used Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack or Gnutella betwen ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 10/3/2009 via www.drobe.co.uk Marc Warne has confirmed that his peer to peer filesharing software will be freely released later this week. The commercial RISC OS Gnutella network client, Cocognut , will be "available to all, with technical support and good karma provided to those who decide to donate money", according to Marc. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 2/19/2009 via www.cnet.com.au An update to the popular Gnutella file-sharing client for Windows, Mac and Linux incorporates a shiny new interface and direct sharing with your Google contacts. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 12/12/2008 via www.geek.com The new version of Limewire, the popular file-sharing application, allows users to share files privately with their friends; a move which should confound organizations and individuals wishing to monitor the content people share over P2P networks. Limewire v5 also features a simpler user interface, providing easy access to the Gnutella P2P network, and can function as [...] More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 9/30/2008 via arstechnica.com A federal judge has turned aside the Oregon State Attorney General's effort to halt the RIAA's attempt at discovering the identities of 17 students accused of sharing music over Gnutella. Read More... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
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