Four tracks from the new upcoming U2 album scheduled from release in November have been leaked onto youtube. It would seem the source of the leak is from no other than Bono himself after a fan recorded the track's being blasted at high volume from Bono's holiday home in the South of France. [...more]
In a recent video interview Grammy award winning and 10 million albums sold R&B artist Joss Stone was asked what her thoughts were on piracy and people who download illegal copies of her music. Surprisingly Joss thinks piracy is great, and we think Joss is too. [...more]
Today i took some time to add ShareThis functionality to the Main P2PViNE website, the original Add This function was limited in it's options only allowing 5 or so sites that you could share content too. ShareThis is a big improvement on the old feature and now allows you to submit content from P2PViNE to most of the popular social web sites along with the option to post content to your blog or send content to a friend by email. [...more]
With the release of Firefox 3 on the horizon we have updated our popular P2PViNE Firefox Story Submit Plugin to be fully compatible with version 3, Don't worry if you are still using Firefox v2 as the plugin is backward compatible and will work with older versions of Firefox also. [...more]
Back in October 2007 tv-links.co.uk was closed down after pressure from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police in the UK. Since then many sites have tried to recapture the success of tv-links.co.uk, tv-links.eu is the latest of those site's seeking similar success and this one isn't half bad. [...more]
P2PViNE just got a whole lot better, over the past week or so you will have noticed some major changes happening at P2PViNE most notably being the look and feel of the site along with adding a few new features for members and webmasters to interact and submit content more easily. P2PViNE is a Socially Controlled News site dedicated to bringing you the latest information on P2P, File-Sharing and all other topics related to these genre's. I started P2PViNE as a large amount of file sharing and p2p news gets released every day unfortunately most never gets covered or discovered with only the big stories seeing the light of day, this is where P2PViNE can help to discover articles that you might not otherwise have found. For more detailed background and description of the site read on. [...more]
Over the next two days 22nd and 23rd march we will be performing some server changes which may see the site offline for a few hours. Hopefully disruption will be kept to a minimum and the blog should be online and stable now with the main site being affected more by the changes. We will update you all on the exact changes when all completed. [...more]
File sharing website's bar a few of the larger site's tend to be temporary affairs lasting only a few years at most before being taken offline. Over the past few years especially we have seen some of the largest sites in the world taken offline, ShareReactor, ShareConnector, EliteTorrents, Demonoid to name but a few. Usualy the members of websites that are closed find refuge at other websites on the internet pretty quickly, wouldn't it be nice however if you had a list to help you browse 1000's of potential new sites related to file sharing. This is where aboutus.org can help. [...more]
Over the past few days we have been having some problems with feedburner for the blogs rss feeds, this has caused us to change the rss feed address from our old one of http://feeds.feedburner.com/p2pvineblog to http://feeds.feedburner.com/p2pvine-blog. If you have subscribed to our old feed please return to the site and re subscribe to the new feed. The old feed will stop working around the 12th April 2008. [...more]
Back in october of last year we reported that one of the fastest growing websites on the internet tv-links.co.uk was closed down by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police, a 26-year-old man from Cheltenham, UK, was arrested along with others involved with the site. Since then there have been a few pretenders to the tv-links crown but none really fitted the gap however a new site titled tv-links.cc is gathering pace. [...more]