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  1. Gnutella Ultrapeers by chrohrs · · Score: 4, Informative · on Modelling P2P Networks
    One problem I see with this study is it doesn't account for ultrapeers, technology that was released by LimeWire in early January. Ultrapeers increase scalability by offloading most of the bandwidth burden to dynamically-elected high-speed hosts. Unlike Fasttrack, ultrapeers use an open protocol with open-source implementations. I believe BearShare is also adding ultrapeer support.

    One problem with LimeWire's initial implementation is that ultrapeers didn't respond to "crawler pings" with "leaf pongs". (We've since changed that.) So as pretty as these pictures are, they're probably not accurate. I would love to see updated results that accounted for ultrapeers.

    The Gnutella network is evolving rapidly, and it would be great if academic papers considered these changes. The Gnutella Developer Forum (GDF) is the primary location for protocol development.

    Christopher Rohrs
    Sr. Software Engineer
    LimeWire

  2. Re:The Logarithmic value of the messages exchanged by chrohrs · · Score: 2, Informative · on Mathematical Analysis of Gnutella
    LimeWire has attacked this problem by introducing "ultrapeers", which offload most of the bandwidth to a small subset of hosts. It works really well. Unlike FastTrack, this is an open-protocol with an open-source implementation available.

    The next step is to add more sophisticated routing protocols between ultrapeers. Many of the algorithms mentioned elsewhere in this post (Chord, CAN, etc.) are contenders for that, as is LimeWire's home-grown query-routing proposal.

    Christopher Rohrs
    LimeWire

  3. Re:P2P and freeloaders... by FatAlb3rt · · Score: 1 · on Cooperation Works if Majority Can Punish Freeloaders

    2) assuming that only contributors to the community get a vote then they will be faced with a massive task of getting rid of the freeloaders

    Check out Limewire. Freeloading is not that hard to get rid of - set your preferences to indicate how many files a user must be sharing in order to allowed to d'load from your collection. No massive task here, move along.

  4. This needs to be re-iterated by LS · · Score: 2 · on Spyware in Kazaa, Limewire, Grokster


    Limewire is GNU licensed, and therefore open source. If you have a problem with spyware, then roll your own version. I don't even think the source code has the spyware, so all you have to do is compile. Now as for other closed source software that doesn't tell the user of it's misdeeds - I can't defend that.

    LS

  5. This needs to be re-iterated by LS · · Score: 2 · on Spyware in Kazaa, Limewire, Grokster


    Limewire is GNU licensed, and therefore open source. If you have a problem with spyware, then roll your own version. I don't even think the source code has the spyware, so all you have to do is compile. Now as for other closed source software that doesn't tell the user of it's misdeeds - I can't defend that.

    LS

  6. Re:Geez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait · on Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

    What a stupid fuck you are. Did you go to the URL in his post? Go to Limewire projects page

  7. Time for Mirrors? by Josuah · · Score: 1 · on Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

    Christopher mentions three domains which have bandwidth costs of $10,000/mo. Seems to me like this is a good time to start mirrors of www.limewire.com and www.limewire.org. Not sure how router.limewire.com is used (I haven't read up on the Gnutella network's behavior), but couldn't that be distributed as well?

  8. An Obsession with Spyware! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Limewire Gets Ads, And Accusations of Spyware

    It seems like "everyone" these days is paranoid about spyware lurking in their software, programs designed to monitor your precious packets as they bounce around the internet.

    Either don't install these add-ons (most installers ask these days) or set up your firewall to deny outgoing connections to them (you do have a firewall, right?). Failing that, run a filtering proxy like Proxomitron (Windows only, Linux equivalents exist). If you're not to scared to compile the source yourself, get the latest build of LimeWire's source and customize it the way you like, as was mentioned in a previous post.

    When you send and receive e-mail messages through your ISP, they could easily figure out what times of day you get the most mail, when you send the most mail, your average file attachment size, etc. just by doing a statistical analysis of the mail server's log files; but no one talks about how SendMail could be spyware!

    What's wrong with a little data mining? A lot, most would say. Every time you purchase something with your debit card or use coupons at the grocery store, you're telling some large corporation about your habits (this is old news to most). What's the difference if a piece of spyware watches what you do in Internet Explorer? You lose a little privacy? You lose your sanity? You lose your favourite box of rusty nails? ..

    Seems pretty silly to me to worry about things like that when you could just uninstall the software, kill the spyware with Ad-Aware (or your axe of choice) and try a different product. Even better, write your own client and be done with it :)

  9. Re:Availability of Service? by uchian · · Score: 1 · on Napster Alternatives Coming Strong

    I'd recommend Limewire as a gnutella client.

    It's a java based client, so the interface is a bit clunky, but last time I tried it, it did better than any other client I tried at searching for stuff you want. (That was about a year ago though)

    And last I heard, Limewire was made opensource, so you can feel nice and warm and pleasant inside whilst your enlargening your pron collection.