The FileSharingZ.com BitTorrent directory has been upgraded with a number of new features and many improvements. You can now follow the worldwide BitTorrent evolution, as well as see individual tracker growth.

The IFPI, which represents the music industry worldwide, is urging law makers to make it easier for them to investigate file sharers. Privacy and legal concerns are hindering them. They would rather switch to a "guilty until proven innocent" model.

The Supreme Court of Italy recently confirmed a ruling that forces Italian ISPs to block full access to The Pirate Bay website. Since Italian ISPs are now blocking access, ISPs in Malta are now unable to provide access to their customers anymore.

Ubisoft's new DRM designed to prevent piracy was cracked within hours of its release. The new DRM restricts and hinders legitimate customers even more, but in turn Ubisoft promises extra content for them. Any real impact on piracy remains to be seen.

• Six BitTorrent Admins Arrested, Interpol Chase Two More
  Six BitTorrent Admins Arrested, Interpol Chase Two More

  Although it wasn’t yet evident, December 2009 appeared to mark the beginning of an effort to shut down the Greek BitTorrent scene. The Society...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 6:50 PM UTC
• Comcast Funds BitStalker Anti-Piracy Research
  Comcast Funds BitStalker Anti-Piracy Research

  For years the RIAA and other copyright holders have been sending copyright infringement notices to ISPs, requesting they forward them to their...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 3:12 PM UTC
• Music Group Gets Court Injunction Against UseNeXT
  Music Group Gets Court Injunction Against UseNeXT

  UseNeXT is a brand operated by Munich and London-based company, Aviteo Ltd. UseNeXT is one of the most popular Usenet services around today and has...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 8:19 PM UTC
• Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law
  Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law

  September last year saw the passing of France’s controversial three-strikes ‘Hadopi’ law which allows the music industry to track...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 3:05 PM UTC
• Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race
  Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race

  2009 was a breakthrough year for the Pirate Party movement. With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured two seats in the...

  Mon, 8 Mar 2010 9:14 PM UTC
• Music Biz Hopes To End Piracy By Tempting ISPs With Millions
  Music Biz Hopes To End Piracy By Tempting ISPs With Millions

  Around seven years ago when pressure was first starting to form against the then-fledgling BitTorrent scene, attitudes were pretty much as they are...

  Mon, 8 Mar 2010 3:53 PM UTC
• Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
  Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

  This week there are four newcomers (three comebacks actually) in the top 10. New Moon is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent. The data for our...

  Mon, 8 Mar 2010 9:30 AM UTC

• UK STUDY: ISPs Could Earn $304m w/Bundled Music Services
  UK STUDY: ISPs Could Earn $304m w/Bundled Music Services

  British Phonographic Industry-funded study finds that bundled digital music services could earn ISPs £203 million ($303.9m USD) by 2013. The...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 6:58 PM UTC
• BitStalker Can Monitor Pirate Bay Torrents for $13 p/mo
  BitStalker Can Monitor Pirate Bay Torrents for $13 p/mo

  Researchers create BitStalker, an efficient “active probing strategy” for finding copyrighted material on large BitTorrent tracker sites...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 6:11 PM UTC
• STUDY: 40% Unable to Name Legal Online Music Service
  STUDY: 40% Unable to Name Legal Online Music Service

  Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:00 PM UTC
• Annual BitTorrent Download of 5.43 GB of SXSW Music
  Annual BitTorrent Download of 5.43 GB of SXSW Music

  Use BitTorrent to download all of the MP3 files publicly available on the SXSW website as of March 6, 2010. It’s that time of year again with...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 8:49 AM UTC
• Court Maintains Ban on DVD Backup Software
  Court Maintains Ban on DVD Backup Software

  Judge sides with MPAA in case against Real Network’s RealDVD software that would allow consumers to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for...

  Mon, 8 Mar 2010 9:10 AM UTC
• Congressman Compares Lack of Radio Performance Tax to Slavery
  Congressman Compares Lack of Radio Performance Tax to Slavery

  House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) takes the fight over terrestrial radio’s refusal to pay performer royalty fees...

  Mon, 8 Mar 2010 8:03 AM UTC
• How Will You Get Your Internet Video in the Future?
  How Will You Get Your Internet Video in the Future?

  Right now, the landscape for Internet video is relatively stable, with the vast bulk of online video sites (including the market leaders YouTube and...

  Fri, 5 Mar 2010 7:16 PM UTC

• BitTorrent directory now with trends
  BitTorrent directory now with trends

  Global BitTorrent Trends You can now follow the worldwide BitTorrent evolution with the new BitTorrent Trends section. The total amount of torrents,...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 6:12 PM UTC

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• Torrent Scan now multilingual
  Torrent Scan now multilingual

  Torrent Scan has been upgraded to allow you to use a localized version. The localized versions offer the same functionality and same torrent search...

  Mon, 22 Feb 2010 5:17 PM UTC

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• File Sharing Community upgraded
  File Sharing Community upgraded

  The new File Sharing Community sports a completely new look & feel compared to the old version. Making it easier to interact with our community...

  Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:41 PM UTC

  Site News
• Image comments trial
  Image comments trial

  As of today we are running an image comments trial. On the pages displaying your images to visitors you will see a new comments section that allows...

  Sun, 31 Jan 2010 5:21 PM UTC

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• You can now connect with your Facebook account
  You can now connect with your Facebook account

  You now have the ability to associate your Facebook account with an existing File Sharing Community account, or create a new File Sharing Community...

  Sat, 9 Jan 2010 1:50 PM UTC

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• FileSharingZ.com Home Page Updated
  FileSharingZ.com Home Page Updated

  The FileSharingZ.com home page has been updated to increase its value for you. If you hover over the title of a news article, from now a tooltip...

  Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:23 PM UTC

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• Open Trackers BitTorrent Directory Upgraded
  Open Trackers BitTorrent Directory Upgraded

  The FileSharingZ.com BitTorrent directory has been upgraded. The Open Trackers page, which shows which private torrent trackers have open...

  Sat, 10 Oct 2009 8:13 PM UTC

  Site News
• New News Source Available
  New News Source Available

  A new news source has been added to the system. You can now scroll through the latest ZeroPaid.com news headlines on the home page. Zero Paid is a...

  Sat, 3 Oct 2009 6:50 PM UTC

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• LifeLock forks over $12M over lack of life-locking ability
  LifeLock forks over $12M over lack of life-locking ability

  Identity theft prevention service LifeLock is not as pristine as its reputation claims after all. The company agreed to pay out...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 7:37 PM UTC
• Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again
  Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again

  As part of the grand hoopla-fest building up to the release of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 6:13 PM UTC
• HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers
  HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers

  Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 3:25 AM UTC
• MRI's successes put the brain on trial
  MRI's successes put the brain on trial

  A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions...

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 1:24 AM UTC
• The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030
  The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030

  Google's recent announcement of a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed has communities across the US salivating—but imagine what...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 9:33 PM UTC
• etc: Pink Floyd has taken its record label EMI to court in a dispute over online royalty payments.
  etc: Pink Floyd has taken its record label EMI to court in a dispute over online royalty payments.

  Pink Floyd has taken its record label EMI to court in a dispute over online royalty payments. Read More: ...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 7:45 PM UTC
• European Parliament unites against 3 strikes, ACTA secrecy
  European Parliament unites against 3 strikes, ACTA secrecy

  The European Parliament is fed up with the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today, representatives...

  Tue, 9 Mar 2010 6:38 PM UTC

• Newzbin Trial Concludes - Now We Wait
  Newzbin Trial Concludes - Now We Wait

  Yesterday, the trial of Newzbin vs. the MPA concluded. The Newzbin team had just one day to use their augmented legal team in the courtroom. But now...

  Thu, 4 Mar 2010 1:25 PM UTC
• It's All Over for RealDVD
  It's All Over for RealDVD

  Flashback to 2008. RealNetworks created a DVD copying program called RealDVD that claimed legality by not defeating CSS copy protection. Instead, all...

  Wed, 3 Mar 2010 1:22 PM UTC
• Third Round of Threatening UK File-Sharing Letters
  Third Round of Threatening UK File-Sharing Letters

  Which?, a UK based consumer affair organization, is reporting that yet another round of threatening letters are being received Brittons. Typically,...

  Wed, 3 Mar 2010 8:22 AM UTC
• Third Round of Threatening UK File-Sharing Letters
  Third Round of Threatening UK File-Sharing Letters

  Which?, a UK based consumer affair organization, is reporting that yet another round of threatening letters are being received by Britons. Typically,...

  Wed, 3 Mar 2010 8:22 AM UTC
• Are P2P Users 'Stuffed'?
  Are P2P Users 'Stuffed'?

  That seems to be one of the rationals provided by the NPD Group, referring to yet another survey about the behaviors and downloading habits of...

  Mon, 1 Mar 2010 7:01 AM UTC
• Newzbin Trial to Resume Tomorrow
  Newzbin Trial to Resume Tomorrow

  Here's a head's up on the Newzbin/MPA front. If you've nuked your Newzbin account out of fear of the MPA (an unnecessary move by the...

  Mon, 1 Mar 2010 6:49 AM UTC
• Newzbin Trial to Resume March 2
  Newzbin Trial to Resume March 2

  After a dramatic first week to the Newzbin vs. MPA trial, the folks over at Newzbin have regrouped and are ready for their trial to resume on March...

  Mon, 22 Feb 2010 4:08 PM UTC
• UK Government Responds to Anti-Digital Economy Bill Petition
  UK Government Responds to Anti-Digital Economy Bill Petition

  The UK is moving in a direction that will soon see the infamous Digital Economy Bill either become law or face defeat. In an effort to achieve the...

  Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:40 AM UTC
• MPAA, RIAA Want Canada to Remain on Copyright Watch List
  MPAA, RIAA Want Canada to Remain on Copyright Watch List

  What does China, Canada, and Russia all have in common? If you said copious wheat production, you're right. But they also have something else in...

  Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:28 AM UTC

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Updated File Sharing Software

• 19 Feb 10 - HijackThis 2.0.3
  In depth tool for scanning your computer for Spyware.
• 18 Feb 10 - Ares 2.1.5
  Ares is a free open source file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc.
• 18 Feb 10 - LimeWire 5.4.7
  LimeWire is a file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use.
• 18 Feb 10 - Shareaza 2.5.2.0
  Shareaza is the most luxurious and sophisticated file sharing system you'll find. It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including eDonkey, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2).
• 18 Feb 10 - Transmission 1.90
  Transmission is the most popular MacOS client around. It has all the advanced features and uses only a low amount of memory when in use. Transmission has been adopted by various big companies and even embedded into hardware.
• 18 Feb 10 - Vuze 4.3.1.4
  Vuze (previously called Azureus) implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users.
• 15 Feb 10 - FrostWire 4.18.6
  FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire Gnutella client. The purpose of FrostWire is to keep and maintain the freedoms that LimeWire LLC may be forced to withdraw.

Most Popular File Sharing Downloads

• 1. Kazaa Lite Resurrection 0.0.9
  Kazaa Lite Resurrection is a continuation of the notorious Kazaa Lite K++ client. Resurrection picks up where Kazaa Lite K++ was left, after Sharman Networks shut down the Kazaa Lite K++ project. Kazaa Lite Resurrection, also called KLR for short, offers updated and new tools, for the current times. It also integrates the latest ideas and support that a user would need.
• 2. uTorrent 2.0
  uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.
• 3. BitTorrent 6.4
  Harness a community of over 150 million users to deliver files to your PC faster than anything else.
• 4. Kazaa Lite K++
  Kazaa Lite K++ (sometimes called 'K-Lite') is a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing application that does not contain any 'Spyware'. In actual fact, it is a modified version of the very popular Kazaa Media Desktop (often called the 'Original Kazaa' or 'KMD'), which is made by Sharman Networks. Both programs are very similar, with almost identical features and appearance. The main difference is that Kazaa Lite has been modified so that it does not have any of the so-called 'Spyware' and 'Adware' that comes with the Original Kazaa.
• 5. BitComet 1.18
  BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use BitTorrent client. It is P2P file-sharing freeware and one of the most popular P2P protocols designed for high-speed distribution. BitComet supports simultaneous downloads, DHT networks (trackerless), a download queue, selected downloads in the Torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk caching, speed limits, auto port mapping, proxies, and IP filtering.