p2p related news sites or blogs

• Ars Technica
• The Register
• CNET
• Recording Industry vs The People
• Freedom to Tinker

Some worthwhile forums to visit

• Slyck (specializes in original p2p news)
• BeatKing (specializes in music discussion)

Organizations which support intellectual freedom, by opposing intellectual property/slavery

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Free Software Foundation

Recommended p2p clients, which contain no adware or spyware

• Soulseek network - forward port TCP 2234
  Soulseek (Windows), Nicotine+ (Linux + Windows)
• ED2K + Kad network - forward ports TCP 4662, UDP 4665 (aMule), and UDP 4672
  eMule (Windows), aMule (Linux + Windows + Mac)
• Gnutella network - forward ports TCP 6346 and UDP 6346
  Shareaza (Windows)

Parodies

• CalebStation 7 author = crazycaleb
• Peer Impact + MashBoxx author = Drake51
• Soulseek - Budget author = unknown

Whois sites for IP address info

• ARIN
• RIPE
• APNIC
• LACNIC
• AfriNIC