[comanighttrain]

Hey, i just had a brainwave and wanted to get some oppinions.

I was looking at Limewire, then IRC, then thought, what if someone made a unified program where you could share files on a more personal basis, and do searches for files through Gnutella, Torrent, IRC File request bots and any others that are relevant.

What do you guys think?

Dave

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Awesome idea. But I would leave out Gnutella and go for a newer better network like ed2k.

[darth_ash]

Awesome idea. But I would leave out Gnutella and go for a newer better network like ed2k.

[ankush patel]

illegal p2p sharing is not supported at this site.

take that some where else please

[todd333]

check out GTK+

[fleamailman]

High, the idea sounds great but remember that a P2P is something one doesn't want to remain too faithful for too long to, the reason being twofold: the choice dries up and also because one never knows who might be building up a record of your habits, even if those habits are legit one would still have to explain oneself if for example one had something ripped in ones shared folder arriving under another name. So whereas one would want to retain ones ICR connection throughout thus not losing ones friends, the same approach should not be taken towards ones P2P. Simply put: a P2P is someone elses wife.

The site is correct in not supporting ilegal downloading nor the use of ilegal copying but probably not simple because it has to be on the side of big business nor of having its own self presevation in mind, - no, more hopefully it is becasue it is genuinly on the side of the little guy who, knowing nothing about P2Ps, is mislead by us here into thinking that he has been given a license to rip, well that may be true until he is caught and forced to pay, or worse his family has to pay, oh and have you seen the fines they are giving out now; moreover, can one ask at this point how long it will be before big business realises that they can make more money from fining people for P2Ps abuse out of court than selling their products in the first place, of which, judging from what one see in news of late, grounds for this speculation may already be apparent.

[comanighttrain]

Thats food for thought. I assume they may do this by recording your IP, if such program used anonymous proxy forwarding (the proxy requests a file, and streams it to the client, so even if someone is recording IP and taking notes, only the proxy can be found and since the file never completely existed on the proxy, they cant sue the server, and since the IP would only be held in volatile memory, the client could not be found). Ofcourse, this anon-proxy technology is in place to stop black hats giving people viruses. I believe if one were to impliment this system, then no-one can be blamed if illegal files were to be shared.

By the way - I do not advise illegal file sharing, although, i argue that representation of real world data should be legal as kareoke is, i dont see anyone busting kareoke singers. I would negociate that you can define representation and actuation by looking at the difference's in quality, maybe at a certain quality mp3's should be considered copies as opposed to representation?

[Numb Remxed]

Awesome idea. But I would leave out Gnutella and go for a newer better network like ed2k.

this is nothing illegal. They are just discussing different ideas.. not providing copyrighted material.

[fleamailman]

Your comment are quite right and I am not on their side either but I just thought a P2P user and IRC user had opposite goals in that with IRC one wants to known or at least known to one friends, as well as known to be on line then, whereas with P2P one wants to as unknown as possible. Anyway sorry and please forgive me for borrowing your thread to warn people about P2P tracking which is fast becoming big business in America where their crackdown has been dramatic, and fine exhobrient, etc,. Also, they would not need to know your IP, for example a recent court in Sweden thruw out a court case where the monitoring company had put taged material in a shared file as bait, imagine that through the IRC they would find a friend of a friend, etc., so back to your idea then and your last post does prove your ability but, in light of the America Senate recent judgment to hold P2P creators liable for the actions of their users, would it be a good idea I wonder.

And yes, I agree that it is a sad situation where gun makers are not held responsible for gun usage where P2P makers are.

[Metal God]

illegal p2p sharing is not supported at this site.

take that some where else please

sue them

[stu_design]

topic is closed

no relevance

[Kat]

topic is closed

no relevance

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