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Before you jump in your SUV and drive 15 miles to that burning kiosk, check out gnutella.

The movie industry needs to realize the horse and buggy distro system has been superceded by an Internet. Funny plastic disks are mostly unecessary.

Search online before you rush out and drive 15 miles in your SUV to get that latest CD.

Message to the music industry:

The horse and buggy distro system of funny plastic disks has been superceded by an Internet. Tune in or drop out.

I saw a few (600MB+) copies of this on gnutella recently. Probably the whole movie. Good luck.

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Gnutellia, Not Gnutelliums

Patriotically as always,
Kilgore Trout

Shouldn't the bigger picture here center around freedom?

Why should anyone be prohibited from copying and distributing any information that comes into his possession? Is it not more important to live in a free society than it is to uphold the IP rights of a few.

IMHO, sharing information should be a basic right of human existence.

A truly free people should be able to parse, manipulate, duplicate, and disseminate any information that comes into their possession, except, of course where it concerns public safety of national security.

Remember, artists are under no obligation to write of produce anything. And when information is truly free the world will change in ways we can not possibly imagine.

Click here to practice non violent civil disobedience today.

I'd like to take this opportunity to induce you to share all your movies and music with this software.

Follow this graph and see the campaign contributions increase as S2560 approaches a vote. Shameful.

If you're going to be living in the Middle East and are more interested in conversation than writing, try Pimsleur.

I've used the "Living Language", "Berlitz", and a few others but always found the Pimsluer method to be more effective. Evan for a guy like me who considers himself hopeless at learning languages. I used Pimsleur for German, French, Russian, Spanish, Herbrew, and "Eypptian Arabic" and was quite surprised at how much I'd learned when conversing with native speakers.

The Pimsleur method is based on immediate feedback. Within a about a minute of the first lesson you're asked questions to which you have a few seconds in which to respond. The other methods I found boring, almost like leaning by rote.

You can find plenty of Pimsleur MP3s on the gnutella network. Get the gnutella software here.

In the bigger picture DirecTV should have no right to control information it beams over public airways. Unfortunately, the television industry, like the record industry before it, will die a slow and litigious death.

I urge everyone, download DirecTV programs to your hard drive, convert to mpegs using transcode, and distribute on gnutella.

That'll learn them.

Let the world change. Out with old.

We're not judges. It's up to the courts to peruse the intricacies of leagality on the matter. And then make a judgement based on their findings. But what's significant IMHO is that this man is just another file sharer fighting the antiquated ways of the past. And for every one like him arrested, they'll be a hundred others to take his place.

File shares of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our lives. And if my life is to be sacrificed in a Federal Prison for having the audacity to share share my hard drive, then such a life can hardly be worth living. Let us stand up for ourselves.

John Ashcroft told me about this, but told me to keep it secret. Clients for the Gnutella P2P network



He also said Linux users can go straight to Gnutella



Now they'll have a file on me.

... we're innovators, using new technology to break up the old "closed" system of information control. If people can get religious degrees on scholarships then surely there must be some philanthropy available for the Fellinies and the Woody Allens of this world. Our current profit motives for funding the arts cause an unnecessary waste of society's resources.

You've thrown your television out the window, now throw Hollywood out with it.

Senator Fritz Hollins told me about this, but told me to keep it secret. Clients for the Gnutella P2P network

He also said Linux users can go straight to Gnutella

It's important that we all do our part to ensure the defeat of the RIAA and the old Luddite network distribution system of manual labor.

I encourage everyone to use a P2P network like gnutelliums to share and distribute as much music and video as you can. If we all saturate the Internet with everything we have, the RIAA will eventually realize the futility of their ways and give up.

Good artists will always get paid as society will always find a way to fund what it likes. The best musicians always performed for the love of medium, not for the money. Mozart, Charlie Parker, The Beatles, etc. would have had no problem making money on today's Internet. It's the mediocre artists who rely on hype and false advertising that keep the current system alive. The best musicians will always be recorded and compensated.

If would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

The music industry is still using the Luddite network distribution of redundant labor. They still put music on archaic plastic disks and hire guys to truck them out to music stores, and then expect consumers to drive out to these stores, pay 15 bucks, then drive home only to find there's only one song they like on the whole CD.

When this business model fails, they start suing everyone.

But there is something each and every one of us can do today to stop this : Use gunutella, share everything you have.

Eventually the music industry will realize the error of their ways.

I do this every time I rent a DVD I like. On Linux, or most any *nix system:

dd if=/dev/dvd of=/movies/filename.img

You can watch them with ogle

Only problem is, DVDs are 3-5G each so extract them as mpegs with transcode

Don't forget to share them on gnutella

Don't worry about the RIAA. Tell 'em you share your wireless bandwidth, must have been someone else. Or maybe someone spoofed your IP address. They can go and fuck themselves.

When ripping, use transcode. You can effectively remove the these annoying FBI warnings for greater viewing pleasure.

Oh, and don't forget to share your digital media on gnutella

And be safe out there. Watch out for big brother. Remeber: You share you bandwidth with your neighbors via a wireless router. "It wasn't I your honor, must have been my neighbor's 10 year old kid who was sharing without FBI warnings."

I have MS source code. I put it on gnutella.

Search for "windows 2000 source".

Enjoy.

1. I have a wireless network and share bandwidth with my neighbors, it wasn't I who was sharing, it must have been someone else. I'm not responsible because I haven't downloaded or shared anything. (Even though they went through your router, you are an ISP and if ISPs were liable the RIAA would have sued them all, long ago.)
2. My IP address was spoofed. Cross examine their tech people and get them to acknowledge spoofing is possible (plant the seed of doubt, you're innocent until proven guilty).
3. The files I downloaded are slightly different versions of what you thought was copyrighted. If you listen carefully they are not the same but are probably bootlegged or perhaps out-takes or live recordings which have not been copyrighted (sure, these are illegal recordings but I didn't record them and that's not why I'm on trial here).

That's coz all the best stuff is on gnutella.

A point well made. It's natural to share information and should be a fundamental human right. The Entertainment Industry is under no obligation to record, produce, or distribute anything.

Except where it concerns public safety or national security, goverments should make no law abridging the right of anyone to parse, manipulate, or disseminate any digital information.

Share today. http://www.gnutelliums.com

Try this instead. http://www.gnutelliums.com

• Good: Well, from the screenshots at AG's site, the interface looks well designed, though it does fill the entire screen in a manner which is ill-suited for those who just want a music player. Like me. There better be a "compact" mode.
  
  
• Bad: From the list of available artists, I'd say they have a rather impressive collection for a RIAA-stomped file sharing service making a comeback. Except of course we're now limited to a mere 300000 or so (probably fewer) tracks, and it's not possible to add your own music to the mix anymore, download remixes, or download rare tracks that are hard to find elsewhere, legally or illegally - just the stuff I used to use AG for.
  
  
• Good: They've got a free preview period. Which doesn't require you to give away CC details. I figure lots of people will sign up for the preview only to dump it 2-20 hours later or when the preview runs out, whichever is sooner.
  
  
• Bad: It's no longer free. Well of course it's not, the users aren't providing the content anymore! Though $9.95/mo would be quite nice provided the downloads were high-quality MP3 or OGG's - heck, even WMA's (wo DRM) would be preferable to the streaming shit they currently offer. Which brings us right down to ...
  
  
• Bad: STREAMS! God, don't we all hate those things? Can't save them. Will definately require a special program to download and play, which means bugging down our systems with even more apps, probably loaded with DRM. Also, most of us aren't on connections that can handle a constant speed of 128-192kbps, especially not people living far away from the servers (which will be centralized, no doubt).
  
  
• Bad: No way to burn music to a CD (apart from analog copying - if I can hear it, I can record it) or otherwise get those streams to somewhere without an Internet connection. That thing alone renders the service utterly and completely useless to me as a music consumer. I believe I'm not alone in feeling that way.
  
  
• Bad: It's Windows only. No further explanation or comment req'd on that one ...
  
  
• Bad: It's only available in the US due to licensing restrictions. I mentioned above that not being able to carry stream music with rendered the service useless to me - well, since I live in Sweden, this "US only" thing kind of ruins it a little more.

GUI wimp

you should be using gnut like a real geek!

:)

It's available for Mac OS X. Don't try SwapNut whateveryoudo I just tried it (thought the name was cute) and it it LOADED with spyware.

1st a quote..

"F-Secure Virus Descriptions

NAME: DlDer
ALIAS: Trojan.Win32.DlDer, Troj_DlDer

This two-component trojan was discovered in the end of December 2001. The trojan being installed on a user's system constantly upgrades its main component that connects to 2001-007.com website and reports user's ID, web browser a user is using and all URLs that a web browser and all its child windows open. The trojan violates user's privacy and opens a security hole in a system by downloading and activating executable files.

The main component of the trojan is Explorer.exe file that is located in Windows folder in \Explorer\ subfolder (do not mix with the original Windows' Explorer.exe). This component is constantly upgraded by the second trojan component that has the name 'DlDer.exe' and is located in Windows folder.

The DlDer.exe file is most likely dropped to user's system by ActiveX applet or Javascript code that a user doesn't notice when he is browsing Internet. The exact way how this file is dropped is not yet known. The case is under investigation.

The DlDer.exe file when it is started downloads Explorer.exe file from a website and puts it to \Windows\Explorer\ folder. Then the trojan creates a startup key for Explorer.exe file. On next System restart the Explorer.exe file is activated and it creates a startup key for DlDer.exe file and starts to connect to 2001-007.com website and report user's ID, web browser and all URLs that a user visits to there.

We recommend to delete both trojan components from an infected system. If these components can't be deleted (locked files) they should be deleted from pure DOS (in case of Windows 9x system) or renamed with different extensions (EXA for example) with immediate system restart (in case of Windows NT/2000/XP system).

[F-Secure Anti-Virus Research Team, December 28th, 2001]"

Now some links

Astechnica Forum - "Is download.com infected with a virus???"

Arstechnica Forum - "explorer.exe and Explorer.exe"

Computing.Net Forum - "How to delete trojan in explorer.exe"

Gnutella Forum - "p2p Trojan info"

FileFront has another fast mirror

FileFront has a fast mirror (for now at least)

(now watch it get slashdotted...)

...use gnut like the real men. There's no way in hell it's going to get banner ads.

Gnut is a console based Gnutella client. This should compile cleanly assuming your using Mac OSX otherwise, sorry.

The gnutella network is a fine place to find an mpg version of this trailer, and as more people share it the mirrors will be more and more widespread. Peer to peer networks shine best in when they solve bandwidth problems by distributing the cost of mirroring popular data over the internet.

I recommend gnut, a text-based GPL'd gnutella client you can use over telnet or whatever, and you can even open a shell over top of it so you can continue interacting with the file system. it's the coolest.

It may be a good idea to search for "monsters" since the correct trailer (the one I found) was marked that way. Otherwise you might end up with the very well done forgery that has been circulating the net for a while.

Bryguy

I use gnut, a console gnutella client available here

It's fast, featureful and is by now very stable, despite the low version number.

/Janne

Please try gnut . This console client rocks! You can have multiple search, multiple downloads, and of course you can increase/decrease number of servers at fly. I don't know what is better in Windows client.

Gnutella is way better, AND has a native linux browser. its file sharing, not just music sharing.
http://www.gnutelliums.com

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We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

These types of actions will however degrade the Gnutella network if everyone adopts them. To some extent, there is a slight shortage of available "Incoming" connections. The network relies on those able to accept incoming connections to do so rather than make outgoing ones. Both types of connections work the same regardless. See Gnutelliums