Ares Connect

If you are looking for an open source file-sharing program in the Internet, then you might want to try Ares 2011. Like all versions of the popular Ares filesharing application, you can access the gnutella network where you will find millions of mp3s for downloading, as well as movies and software. Some of the files that you can share with your peers are video files, images, software, and audio files. What sets it apart is the super reliable connections and blazing fast download speeds compared to previous versions of Ares.

Another reason why it is a good idea to use Ares 2011 is the fact that you can download the shared files faster than other programs. The reason for this is that the program looks for different sources so that it can allow you to have a faster download. Furthermore, you can be sure that the downloading will be much faster because the program works behind firewalls. You also will not have to worry about configuring the firewall of your computer because the application does not require you to configure it.

Aside from the file-sharing and downloading feature of the Ares 2011 program, you should also look for the other features of the program. The program offers several features such as the built-in video and audio player, file sharing chat rooms, and a library organizer. With the video and audio player in the program, you can easily listen or watch the files that you have downloaded. Furthermore, because the application has a built-in library organizer, you can easily sort the files that you have downloaded so that you can easily find them whenever you need them.

Overall, if you are looking for a peer-to-peer downloading program, then you might want to consider using the Ares 2011. You can be sure to share different files and application to your peers easily. Furthermore, it is an open source application so you do not have to worry about its price.

Anti piracy lawyers, ACS: Law, recently hit the headlines after a spate of bullying pay-up-or-else tactics against alleged file sharers brought the power of “Anonymous” down on them and their website crashed, releasing thousands of embarrassing documents into the public domain.

Unfortunately, even though the ACS: Law business plan to extract money from people accused of downloading music and movie files from sites such as Ares 2011 is clearly not working any more, Andrew Crossley and his cronies decided to take eight defendants who had offered no defence to court.

The cases were heard at the Patents County Court office in the UK and the judge overseeing the proceedings was apparently less than impressed at the level of competency shown by ACS:Law. In fact, he described the entire file sharing case process as a “real injustice”-which will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the antics of Mr Crossley and ACS:Law.

At least in this case, common sense prevailed as the judge threw out all eight cases after noting that there were serious issues with many of the cases relating to alleged illegal Ares 2011 music and movie downloads.

After ACS:Law spent rather a long time in the headlines recently following a disastrous leak of embarrassing documents from their website, anyone would assume that the firm would be keeping a low profile and perhaps changing their modus operandi to one that did not include persecuting innocent people.

But no, Andrew Crossley has once again caught the eye of the media after his firm tried to take eight defendants accused of downloading movies and music from file sharing sites such as Ares 2011, to court.

Mr Crossley probably thought he could get away with asking for default judgements on all eight cases, and pocketing the money as a result, but thankfully for British justice, common sense prevailed and the judge at the Patents County Court Office refused to grant default judgements due to the particulars of claim being defective on a number of grounds-in at least two of the cases, the judge could find no actual evidence that proceedings had even been served against the defendants.

ACS:Law was left red faced yet again. Hopefully this will discourage Andrew Crossley from pursuing more file sharing cases against those accused of downloading files from Ares 2011 and other file sharing sites.

A legal notice on LimeWire.com now warns users of an injunction against the filesharing website. LimeWire was the world’s most popular peer-to-peer filesharing websites, followed closely by AresVista. So the answer to what are the Limewire successor’s going to be obviously going to start with Ares.

These file-sharing programs are also called P2P, or peer-to-peer programs. Unlike the old Napster network that ran all exchanges through a central server, these free music download software programs use P2P networks connects users directly to each other allowing them to download and burn free music. Both Ares and Limewire were founded in 2000, but Ares has kept a lower profile, while Limewire flourished by attracting as much attention as possible.

The site’s popularity is reflected in a survey by NDP Group, which found that LimeWire was used by 58% of people who have downloaded music from a peer-to-peer network in the year from May 2009.This compares with only 29% who used Ares, the second most popular P2P filesharing network.

Besides the high profile Limewire pursued, they also had a large corporate presence that controlled the software and served as a target for the RIAA to go after. Last week, A federal court in New York issued a permanent injunction against LimeWire late on Tuesday, ruling that the platform intentionally caused a massive scale of infringement by permitting the sharing of thousands of copyrighted works by its 50 million monthly users.

US judge Kimba Wood ruled that record companies have suffered – and will continue to suffer – irreparable harm from LimeWire’s inducement of widespread infringement of their works, adding that the potential damages were staggering.
The court also ruled that LimeWire should use all reasonable technological means to immediately cease and desist copyright infringements still taking place through applications already downloaded.

Yesterday’s court order comes after a four-year legal battle between LimeWire and the Recording Industry Association of America, the representative body for many of the world’s largest record labels which is at war with P2P programs used for downloading music such as Ares and Limewire.

In May, Wood found LimeWire liable for widespread copyright infringement. The level of damages faced by the site’s New York-based parent company, Lime Group, will be decided in January 2011. The RIAA said LimeWire, Ares, and other P2P programs have cost the music industry hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.According RIAA figures, US recorded music sales fell to $7.7bn in 2009 from $14.5bn in 1999. The rise to prominence of peer-to-peer filesharing networks is singled out as a primary factor for this decline by the RIAA.

Following Tuesday’s injunction, the RIAA said: For the better part of the last decade, LimeWire and Gorton have violated the law. The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that LimeWire and Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely.

Napster, which claimed more than 100 million users at the height of its popularity at the beginning of the decade, collapsed in 2002 under the strain of a number of legal challenges. With Limewire now shuttered, this leaves Ares as the biggest player left, but it may escape the wrath of the RIAA due to the non-centralized nature of the distribution network for the software.