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Rapidshare preparing launch of music site RapidMusic
Controversial one-click file hoster Rapidshare is apparently working on a music download site. The company recently hired former German TV personality Mola Abedisi as an executive consultant to “coordinate trade show participation and the new section RapidMusic,” according to German business news website New-Business.de. Rapidshare also hopes that Abedisi will help them to establish new cooperations with the entertainment industry.
Continue reading »Limewire Gets More Serious About BitTorrent
In 2008 LimeWire was the most installed P2P application with an impressive market-share of 37%, compared to 14% for runner-up uTorrent. Although Limewire is primarily a Gnutella-based client it also supports BitTorrent downloads. Although we can safely say that most LimeWire users don’t use the application just for its BitTorrent support, LimeWire could not ignore the popularity of BitTorrent and had no other option than to implement the most used file-sharing protocol back in 2006 .
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