It looks like the worlds favorite (over 154 million official downloads to date!) file sharing networks maybe in trouble 
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Is KaZaA in trouble?
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you must be a lawyer.....yeah it's only a matter of time before Kazaa closes its doors as well, and once it does there will be a lot of bored people.
Im hoping they do close it down. A new protocol will rise from the ashes and if they have their head outta their ass, maybe we'll get a popular mac client. Limewire just doesn't cut it.
Have any Gnutella clients been good to date?
I don't think so...
I was hoping a mac version of KaZaA before they closed... darn.
Re: Is KaZaA in trouble?
eh.... if KaZaA is shut down something else will take its place. Or people will have to go back to buying software, music, and movies
Lethal
Originally posted by edesignuk
It looks like the worlds favorite (over 154 million official downloads to date!) file sharing networks maybe in trouble
Full story.
eh.... if KaZaA is shut down something else will take its place. Or people will have to go back to buying software, music, and movies
Lethal
There are a few up and coming networks...
First of all, Kazaa's problem is that they made it based on a central server/authentication system. As a commercial venture, I understand - they want control of their network... and they couldn't really do it any other way... but they can shut down the entire network because of this and may be ordered to do so.
Gnutella can't be shut down... not without going after each individual user. But Gnutella also doesn't work very well. (imho)
Gnutella 2 - which is a seperate network spawned off... appears to be promising. I don't know enough of the details... but there is a Windows client available.
GiFT is based on the fasttrack network... and is open source... and is coming along... no public client... but there is an OS X front end for it already.
eDonkey is more or less abandonded from the official developers - but the network is still going strong... (3rd party clients)
Overnet "replaces" eDonkey and is "serverless" and is up and coming as well.
arn
First of all, Kazaa's problem is that they made it based on a central server/authentication system. As a commercial venture, I understand - they want control of their network... and they couldn't really do it any other way... but they can shut down the entire network because of this and may be ordered to do so.
Gnutella can't be shut down... not without going after each individual user. But Gnutella also doesn't work very well. (imho)
Gnutella 2 - which is a seperate network spawned off... appears to be promising. I don't know enough of the details... but there is a Windows client available.
GiFT is based on the fasttrack network... and is open source... and is coming along... no public client... but there is an OS X front end for it already.
eDonkey is more or less abandonded from the official developers - but the network is still going strong... (3rd party clients)
Overnet "replaces" eDonkey and is "serverless" and is up and coming as well.
arn
Holy sh*t, i just tried that Xnap mentioned in the other forum, and man that is a great network. Amazing results. Never have I gotten 82 rammstein bootleg video results in one search. With limewire i only got 6 tops.
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an awesome p2p client is soul seek, the only bad part is that its not available for the mac. (a little slow in VPC, but OK)
It has a lot of potential though...
http://www.slsk.org
an awesome p2p client is soul seek, the only bad part is that its not available for the mac. (a little slow in VPC, but OK)
It has a lot of potential though...
http://www.slsk.org
sorry for the double post, but....
I found a port of Soul Seek for OS X.
http://www.sensi.org/~ak/pyslsk/
I found a port of Soul Seek for OS X.
http://www.sensi.org/~ak/pyslsk/
WTF, man. Why are U.S. Copyright Laws applicable in Australia?! I just don't get the country I live in.
It would suck for us PC users if Kazaa died. I depend on Kazaa for
downloading all my Kung Fu movies.
downloading all my Kung Fu movies
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