Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Napster alternatives

["Hunter Cook" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

That's right...gnapster will not save us from the upcoming napster 
fees...They are going to charge for the login, so regardless of your client 
you will need to pay to make it work.  But napster is junk anyway.  I mean, 
we all use it because it's *available*, but it is seriously flawed.  One 
file type (no vorbis?)?  Central server?  It's not only politically and 
legally unstable, it's not particularly robust or flexible, either.  I have 
been wondering for quite some time when we will go to the next level and 
build some sort of open-standardized, filetype-independant, peer-to-peer, 
secure, and fast protocol for simple file transfer.  I'm not much of an 
expert in this arena, but if an internet "community" can build a whole posix 
system, I don't see why we couldn't whip napster.  Anyone know of any 
current projects in this arena?  Anyone wanna start one?

Hunter.

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>On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Logan a.k.a Cronix wrote:
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> > you probobly know already but there is a nice little spin-off of napster 
>for
> > linux, its called Gnapster.  you can get it at
> > http://www.faradic.net/~jasta/gnapster.html
>
>If I understand correctly, that program just allows the user to access the
>Napster service, so it isn't an alternative to Napster.  It's really just
>Napster with a different front end.  Right?
>
>Mike
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