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FileDonkey is still alive, and pretty usable. But I will guess that a strong community like SR will come back soon in one or another way.

Maybe I sound like a "typical pirate", but I actually like to see some American series (would you ever know), that never comes to Europe, and because I haven't got the time/money to build a PVR yet, the online resources is a pretty good way for me to storage shows I have or not seen. The Daily Show on BT/Suprnova is a pretty fast download though ;) A nice refreshing way to study American politics.

pirates used "p2p web sites"

Never been to any of these P2P web sites?

My apologies to those of you with the [display domain name] feature enabled.

As a quick check visit top 100 lists such as Pitchfork top 50 of 2003, which contains sub-pop music flavors. Now search for the albums on edonkey networks with clients or FileDonkey. It's amazing to see so many RARs and ZIPs.

Less fakes, more helpful comments, better hashing, etc... at least for time being.

1. Install Emule
2. Map a couple of ports
   through your router
3. Visit FileDonkey or
   Musicdonkey
4. Search for your favorite band/album.
5. *Click*
6. It takes about a day on cable to get an album, but I usually queue up
   about 100 or so albums.

Everyone seems to be thinking that it is very difficult to generate the same MD5 from a mp3, I don't agree.

FileDonkey allows you to search for files that have traversed their network by name, and displays the MD5 hash so that you can specifically search for THAT file.

Anyway, if you use their interface to search for "Oops I did it again" or any other drivel by britney spears, you'll get about 100 different files. Again, these are files that have traversed the relativley large file donkey network at some point, not files that are currently available for download. It seems to me that way more than 100 people have ripped that song and shared it.

Anyway, there aren't that many different MD5 sums for just about any song, yeah there are more than a few, but they are FAR from unique.

Solution.

Try here.

How does the system ensure that the file the hash was computed from is the same file the client will be giving to other users?

If I read your question correctly, you're referring to what's called a hash collision, that's highly unlikely. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" has a lot of good reading on this. Parts (or "chunks" as eDonkey/eMule call them) which come in 9 MB pieces are also checked. It's a pretty sweet system. When you see a file with a lot of sources and you've gotten the file ID from a reputable source, say ShareReactor or FIleDonkey you shouldn't have any problems.

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