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  1. Where do you think they're going? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5 · on Napster Traffic Drops
  2. Let me use this opportunity .. by Eloquence · · Score: 5 · on Scour is Dead
    .. for some blatant self-promotion.

    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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  3. What is the difference between Freenet and Blocks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Freenet 0.3 Released

    I have tried Blocks which is a similar program to Freenet except it also has search facilities.

    Any one else heard of Blocks? What I am curious about is whether Blocks is as secure as Freenet because Blocks certainly seems more functional at this moment in time although there are only a few nodes on the network at present. Having a search facility is a big +.

    I would like to use a system I can feel safe uploading stuff onto. I'm sure allot of others would too.

  4. Re:Competition by Eloquence · · Score: 3 · on Ian Clarke of Freenet Intereview
    First, Gnutella doesn't develop at an impressive pace at all. There are many clients, but they are all still working with the 0.4 protocol, which is completely flawed (which is why Gnutella is unusable now).

    Napster? The development they are most concerned with is of a legal nature.

    There are two serious competitors: MojoNation and Blocks. And they both have to deal with the problems FreeNet deals with now.

    The problems are far less trivial you think. On the one hand, you want information to be as dislocal as possible, on the other hand, you want to "localize" (search) the information on the network. An individual host has no idea which keys it is storing (at least in theory), it doesn't know their names (only their hashes) nor does it know the actual content (which is encrypted). So you can't simply say "Server X, tell me what you're storing".

    Which is why meta-networks may be necessary, distributed search engines similar to AltaVista, but of a distributed nature. Again a new challenge, perhaps not less complex than FreeNet iself.

    So don't trivialize. The FreeNet team is working very hard (just look at their development traffic), but they can't do wonders.

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  5. The Morality of it... by tbo · · Score: 2 · on Implications For Software Like Napster And Gnutella?

    I'm considering helping in the development of a Mac Gnutella port or starting a Mac OS X Gnutella port. The main thing holding me back is the question of whether it's really the right thing to do. No matter how evil the recording industry is, artists don't get a dime from Gnutella/Napster/Freenet/Blocks. They do from the recording industry, even if it's not very much.

    What we need is a site where we can download MP3s for reasonable micropayments ($.20 - $1.00), with half the cash going to the artists. Piracy will die down because it's not worth the hassle to save $.20. People also don't really want to rip off artists, and it will be a lot harder to rationalize when you know every pirated MP3 is money out of the artists' pockets.

  6. 'Blocks' looks interesting, too by caliban · · Score: 2 · on Napster Aftermath: Fan Vs. Corporate Rights
    Blocks was introduced on fresh the other day, unfortunately I don't meet the minimum system requirements -- 33.6 dialup :-(

    Blocks is an anonymous distributed file transfer system designed for people with permanent ?always on? Internet connections like DSL lines or cable modems. It allows you to anonymously upload files from, and download files to the Blocks server ?network?.


    Blocks uses a large disk bound cache (1-64Gb) that is protected by a 128bit block cipher using a random key based on a strong Pseudo Random Number Generator (entropy provided by user), and the cache is deleted and recreated each time the Blocks server is stopped or started. Therefore, even after a crash or abnormal termination, the disk cache cannot be used to ascertain what data has been downloaded or was being served.


    When you run a Blocks server it finds and connects to a number of other Blocks servers, creating an interconnected ?network? of servers. All Blocks servers have a disk bound cache of data that is used to store data in the form of fixed size binary blocks of 64Kb.