GNUtella
Joe Emenaker
You folks seen this yet?
Given that Napster has been under a lot of pressure from the music industry
lately, the next step in the evolution is here. It's GNUtella. It's got some
cool advantages. First, there's no dedicated server (more like newsgroups or
IRC, I s'pose) and, hence, no one company to sue (so the record companies
would have to go after individuals... which isn't likely). Also, GNUtella
doesn't just do MP3's... it does software, movie files... anything.
I searched for "Norton" and found several instances of Norton Utilities,
Norton AntiVirus, Ghost, etc....
Crazy.....
cam...@my-deja.com
In article <8fq248$fo6$1...@cscnews.csc.calpoly.edu>,
"Joe Emenaker" <j...@emenaker.com> wrote:
> You folks seen this yet?
I couldn't get a single site in their list to come up.
Christopher
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Before you buy.
Erik Umenhofer
its a piece of crap soometimes
but sometimes the rusults work out ok.
i still use scour exchange and napster and hotline. for the gathering of
legal software of course.
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Joe Emenaker
"Erik Umenhofer" <er...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>
> i still use scour exchange and napster and hotline. for the gathering of
> legal software of course.
How do you use Napster or ScourExchange to get anything other than MP3's? I
came across something called "wrapster" which let you make warez *look* like
MP3's so you could trade them with Napster, but searches never turned up
anything....
- Joe
J T
Joe Emenaker <j...@emenaker.com> wrote:
: You folks seen this yet?
: Given that Napster has been under a lot of pressure from the music industry
It's not very good yet. I put up a few legal files (yes, legal) and
let it run overnight. A handful of idiots were trying to download
20+ files at a time and there doesn't seem to be any way to prevent
such stupidity automatically. The speed cap doesn't seem to work (I
get xxxk/sec on local downloads and uploads go at full speed). I had
as many as 92 uploads going at one point (all at 0.xk/sec) and no way
to keep it from starting that many. I shut it down this morning when
I saw yet another moron trying to download 20 files at once.
A million monkeys at a million keyboards...
Also, the failed connections were setting off my network monitor.
Every failed Gnutella connection set off a port scan warning. There
were several hundred of them by morning. Easy to understand when
looking at the stats. In fact, I'm surprised there weren't more
failed connections.
Joe Emenaker
"J T" <jt...@mail.zymaxusa.com> wrote;
>
> It's not very good yet. I put up a few legal files (yes, legal) and
> let it run overnight. A handful of idiots were trying to download
> 20+ files at a time....
Well, keep in mind that "GNUtella" is actually the underlying protocol. The
client apps are still emerging... and with a variety of features.
I liken it to IRC. For a *long* time, you couldn't get a decent IRC client.
Now, there are lots of them. Some are pretty darned cool... with plugins and
all sorts of interesting goodies.
In time, there will be very sophisticated GNUtella clients. I'm just saying
that the infrastructure that GNUtella uses.... it looks like it might
overcome the Achilles' heel of Napster... that being the fact that there's a
central authority that can be sued, coerced, harrassed. Because of
GNUtella's completely distributed nature, I think it might be the RIAA's
equivalent of "The Borg": "We are the GNUtella.... prepare to be shared".
> Also, the failed connections were setting off my network monitor.
> Every failed Gnutella connection set off a port scan warning.
And, somehow, this isn't the fault of the network monitor?
- Joe