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Actually, there is another VERY IMPORTANT resource out there for sharing. (And I hope this gets modded up to a 5, as its critical that information such as this spreads). The client is known as FileTopia. I never investigated precisely how it works, but it is designed with privacy and security at the forefront. When I was overseas studying for a year, the school I was at had fucking bitch-ass tight (yes, the proper adjective in this situation is "fucking bitch-ass tight") regulations and restrictions on their network. You couldn't even get instant messengers to work, let alone torrent clients or standard P2P stuff such as WinMX. Lo and behold, I stumbled upon FileTopia. It worked like a charm. Something about appearing as a secure html page or what not!?! (If anyone has more insight into it, please reply!) But, regardless of how it works, it works. Last time I checked, it only had about 5,000 users. But the amount of sharing was significant. Also, it felt like a more personalized community, with much more monitoring and reciprocity. I'm back on torrents for now, but I have a feeling that Filetopia like clients may be the direction we are heading in the next 5-10 years. http://www.filetopia.com/ NB: It felt great to find a way to screw over the uni too. I was about ready to try to slave an offsite computer and set up a proxy. But this worked just fine.

[flamebait] Why do we need software to teach our children? Wouldn't teaching them in person be better, or are we all too busy? we need software to teach our children because the rest of us are all to busy downloading pr0n, and trying to get the latest version of windows to boot. [/flamebait] freenet is great anominity and security, i dont like the idea of unused data disapearing completly, but it should be less replicated... oh and by the way if encryption is what your looking for filetopia is a great p2p progie that lets you share data over encrypted channels, and it's flagship feature is CHAT, kinda like napster. but freenet promises to be so much more, i am just waiting for content to grow more, beyone pr0n and skript kiddies virii. my 2cents.

Has been around for a while now. Ceck out filetopia. Although Locutus does look useful for searching corporate lans and such.

By the way, anyone here tried out Direct Connect?

http://www.neo-modus.com/ for you paranoids

Some of the servers will not allow you to connect without more than 3,6 even 9 gigs to share and x amount of slots open. What will the RIAA do when they send in their bulldogs and the automatic script kicks them for not sharing or not sharing the right kind of files ?

Or what about Filetopia with its server hosted in spain and promising "...security and privacy that provides...strong ciphers and public key techniques for all communications and sophisticated techniques to protect your IP and...make you truly anonymous and safe from attacks..."

If your looking for a file-sharing client that uses encryption, easy UI, and bouncer servers, then you should probably look at filetopia.

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• Alpine - Adaptive Large-scale Peer2peer Information NEtworking
• ANAP -- Anonymous Napster
• AudioGalaxy Satellite
• Bearshare -- Powerful Gnutella client
• Blocks -- open source distributed sharing client with encryption
• Carracho -- MacOS file sharing program
• CuteMX
• Direct Connect
• DFSI -- Distributed File Sharing over IRC
• Espra
• FileSwap
• Filetopia
• FreeNet
• Gnutmeg -- peered file sharing system
• gnutella -- distributed P2P file sharing tool
• Hotline
• IMesh
• Jungle Monkey -- open source
• KaZaA - Windows Media Desktop
• Konspire -- open source distributed client in java
• OFSI -- Open File Sharing Initiative
• ProjectELF -- anonymoys distributed sharing system
• SongSpy
• Spin Frenzy
• Splooge -- P2P file sharing by file extension
• Swapoo -- Napster like service for sharing video game ROMs
• Swaptor -- Online File Sharing Community
• VNN - secure file sharing app

You can view their feelings regarding on-line privacy here.

You can view their feelings regarding on-line privacy here.

Looking for pr0n? Go to the xxx channel, download file lists from people, click on the tab that lists only those files that are missing from your master file list, then add files to hotlist/ignorelist/download list. It all works very nicely.

Note, it is closed source for the moment, but you just have to love their philosophy (read their philosophy page, duh!). Oh yeah, and it encrypts most traffic with strong crypto.

infoAnarchy reports on the many, many alternatives to Scour & Napster, be it distributed or centralized. It uses the K5 site engine, meaning anyone can submit stories and moderate submissions.

In our Resources section, you can get an overview of the many available file sharing tools. Here's the ones I would recommend:

• One of the best alternative feature-wise is Filetopia (its userbase is relatively small).
• And for MP3s, Songspy is quite powerful.
• If you like Napster, get Napigator. It allows you to connect to OpenNap servers where any file type can be shared (and which are not concerned by any changes in Napster's business model).
• A good alternative to the Windows Napster client is FileNavigator.
• Recently reborn: CuteMX, has a lot of features but requires IE.
• Somewhat closer to Gnutella, with distributed servers: DirectConnect
• Distributed, anonymous, encrypted: Blocks

But again, please come visit us at iA to find out about the best new tools. We know our stuff.

File sharing will never die.

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Honestly people ... Why all the fuss ? Encrypted file sharing is already here Filetopia Why bother using insecure systems like Napster, Cutemx etc. etc. ?

I'm also trying out Freenet, which at the moment is very much incomplete - but we all know that. I had to try 5 keys before I finally could retrieve something, and that something was porn .. *sigh* I must also voice the doubt that Freenet won't be Freenet, since they readily admit that you will give your IP away to the first node you connect to. It _will_ be possible (but hard) to track people down even on Freenet.

Gnutella ... there's just something about it that I don't like. Dunno what it is, but I got the feeling after reading their webpage.

Napster. Like it. Too bad the recording industry actually lost a few quids there. I had plans buying an album I've seen the commercial before, but after downloading it with Napster and listening to it, I decided not to.

It sucked.

Check out this kick ass app www.filetopia.com. It has napster like functionality, but with many more usefull features. There is no global search yet (4 weeks). It uses strong public key encryption for file transfers and chat(!). Guess where people are going to go when the unencryted systems napster, cutemx, imesh, gnutella etc. are shut down ? Now no one can evesdrop on your searches and transfers :) Sweet ...