Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Napster alternatives

[rwd7ec <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yup I do agree, I used to be an old school FTP and IRC trading fanatic. One thing
you guys might all want to look at that I failed to mention is a new service
called Direct Connect, Supposedly like napster and for Windows (sorry linux
d00ds, I know :(  ) but it supports ALL FILE TYPES    See link below. Its on
neo-modus.com TCP/IP and stuff, pretty cool interface, not as simple as napster
but any true geek would like it.

http://www.neo-modus.com/

Check it yo

Ryan Davis
Site Support Specialist
Information Access Technology Services
University of Missouri-Columbia


"Igor Izyumin Jr." wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 February 2001 11:14, Hunter Cook wrote:
> > 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?
>
> While I do not have any objections to distributing music over the web, I do
> have MANY objections to peer-to-peer file sharing.  First, it is against
> almost every ISP's rules.  Second, it slows down the internet because it
> attracts too many clueless idiots.  That's why napster is bad - it attracted
> too many people, most of whom were just leeching files.  A better system
> would have credits: if people download 10 megs from you, you have the right
> to 10 (maybe more) megs of downloads.  That would cut the freeloaders
> dramatically, cut off most of the clueless morons, and leave a system which
> has more content.  By the way, the thing you were talking about is called
> freenet and it's been around for a few years now.
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