The team has been preparing the service for a few months now but apparently it got temporarily put on hold because the main coder was "MIA". The resurgence of Bibliotik in this new formula has caught the attention of some big names and has raised expectation towards a shortly public launch.

There are two versions - the basic one comes free and the “Ultimate” one is priced $29.95 a year. GigaTribe promises a clean and safe application.

“Security is our top priority. When it comes to sharing your personal photos and videos, you need to be absolutely sure they will only be available to the appropriate contacts. GigaTribe provides users with this assurance that their private information will always remain protected,” said Alexis Leseigneur, CTO, GigaTribe.

Here are the main features service provides:

100 % encryption of the files;
Option to form groups to view the content;
Unlimited data sharing; small business networking;
Instant messaging feature;
Improved user interface.

Upgrading to GigaTribe “Ultimate”, will bring you more features like unlimited email tech support; remote internet access; faster downloads; Easyconnect service; and the possibility to protect shared folders with a password.

1. LimeWire 4.18 - 541,134 downloads/ 541,134 this week
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2. FrostWire 4.18 - 361,493 downloads/ 361,493 this week
Download and share files on Gnutella and Bittorrent network.

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3. BitComet 1.05 - 361,493 downloads/ 160,099 this week
Share and download files from BitTorrent and chat with your friends.

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4. uTorrent 1.8.1 - 51,482 downloads/51,482 this week
Download torrent files to your PC.

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5. MP3 Rocket 5.1.4. - 2,955,956 total downloads / 34,222 downloads
Download movies, music, and documents and share them with others.

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6. BitTorrent 6.0.2 build 8388 - 14,448,911 total downloads/ 19,993 this week
Search the Internet for torrent files, and download and upload files.

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7. eMule 0.49a - 7,586,451 total downloads/ 10,289 this week
Search and share files over the eDonkey2000 and Kad P2P networks.

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8. BitLord 1.1 - 1,612,877 total downloads 7,819 this week
Distribute and download large files via Torrent P2P protocol.

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9. BitLord 2.0 - 1,612,877 total downloads /7,819 this week
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This online crime seems to successfully get ahead of other criminal activities towards which youngsters are inclined - 6 % are (or have been) in the habit of smoking illegal substances, 11 % have been involved in fights, and 15 % have stolen different goods.

The record labels’ concern grows as 29 % of those who said they have illegally downloaded material over the Internet also “confessed” this is a daily activity for them.

AfterDawn quotes Finnish piracy supporting group Piraattiliitto as saying: “There is an almost unanimous call from the readers to legalize private filesharing. The overwhelming change in the national opinion from anti-piracy to pro-piracy is somewhat surprising, even for us at Piraattiliitto.”

We expect these results to put Finnish authorities on guard and tighten up the laws concerning copyright protection.

The upload system lets you promptly upload a number of files and view what file has been already uploaded and what file is being currently uploaded.

The downsize with large file uploads is that usually the user is not aware when the upload didn’t succeed (due to connection failure or server limit reached). This file sharing script makes possible for your users to be always informed regarding their upload status.

XFileSharing also includes leech protection for download URLs to keep those net crawlers away from your site.

The service also lets you to establish premium membership levels for your users and charge (PayPal) them monthly for premium access to uploaded content.

Among many useful features there’s Remote Upload through which you or your users can upload any file located on remote host to your system by simply copy-pasting the link.

ThomasNet sums up the offering of the service:

 [XFileSharing] supports simultaneous upload of several files up to 2 GB each and constantly relays upload status. Dynamic symlink generation mechanism ensures upload connection will not be dropped in middle of file and server(s) will not be down during heavy download periods. Uploads can be password-protected, and leech protection is provided for download URLs.

The site also comes with an in-browser IRC chat. It’s nice to see people still make efforts to run such a site and share information and knowledge. Keep up the good work, guys!

This bootleg format is called AVCHD and pirates offer an "unrivaled" price of $7 per disc. Of course, the MPAA is worried like hell:

The MPAA estimates that within the next six months the high-definition discs could account for 10% of $224 million that its member companies lose from piracy in China. While a legitimate Blu-ray discs costs about $30, a pirated Chinese disc goes for as little as $7.

Compared to a Blu-ray movie format this bootleg format is a grade lower and uses 720 horizontal lines of resolution instead of 1,080, still manging to put out a better quality in picture than an ordinary DVD on high-definition TV sets.

The first would be - Bonus Points, which means one point is awarded for each torrent that is seeding, per hour. Users can trade in points for upload GBs; and upload GBs in turn, can be converted into points.

The second change comes with "Collections" – those familiar with What.cd ‘collages’, will quickly get the idea. Films are categorized by user-created categories (IMDb Top 250, Best Actor, Best Picture, and so on.) with collections of torrents for each, in one easy browsable page.

And finally, the third feature - Uploading and IMDb Parsing (with ‘Auto-Fill’) — it’s common knowledge that sometimes having to fill in all of the required fields for a new torrent just makes users reticent to uploading. However, SceneMovies offers a solution - when you’re making a torrent upload, all you need to do is enter in the IMDb movie title link name (ID), and it does the filling in of the data for you automatically. This really makes a useful A addition.

We say that after Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, the giants that virtually own the market for videogames, have reported their Q3 figures. The former managed to get ahead of Xbox 360 (370,000 units) with its Wii shipping 803,000 units. But the third in the race came Sony’s PS3 which only scored 190,000 units.

Even so, Sony’s growth in sales with 56% over the same period in 2007, as Engadget reports, is all the more astounding considering the violent strikes to the economy. That could be indeed due to PS 3 being the best Blu-ray player in the market.

The service will make available for download films and TV shows produced by Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Among the first releases are Spider-Man 3 and Superbad.

This bold move from Tesco will be sustained by its music download service already offered by the company via Tesco Digital online store. The company promises to make all the music customers can purchase through the site available in the universal MP3 format.

"We said back in April when we launched our site that "Our aim for the Tesco Digital site is for it to be more than just a music download portal," Graham Harris, Tesco's commercial director declared. "We wanted to create an exciting and easy-to-use entertainment shop that Tesco customers of all technical ability can use and trust. This next development confirms we are doing just that."

The prices will start from £1.87 for television programs, £10.97 for new release movies and £10.97 for cinema classics. The company intends to roll out a rental service in the following months.

This service coming from Tesco will be competing with Apple’s iTunes which currently is the leading source of music and movie downloads in the UK. With the iTunes store users can rent or buy movies from most of the major studios, with new releases costing around £10.99.

Telegraph.co.uk quotes Sarah Johnson, an analyst at Screen Digest as saying: "Tesco is the second largest DVD retailer in the UK, but this strong position in the physical market is unlikely to be replicated in the digital sector. Tesco Digital's lack of device strategy will act as a major obstacle to adoption. The two services dominating the UK transactional online video market, Apple's iTunes and Microsoft's Xbox Live Video Marketplace, are tightly bound to a device."