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File Sharing: Decentralizing, Open-Source Fasttrack

Eloquence writes: "I've written a comparison of current file sharing software; what's interesting is that the original centralized indexing concepts are losing ground because of filters, and most relevant file sharing systems by now use at least a server-network, or a completely decentralized architecture. Unfortunately, most networks are proprietary, but at least there is now an open-source client to access the most popular network, Fasttrack's Kazaa/Morpheus, which was originally only accessible under Windows (around 500,000 users online at any time)."

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  1. Linux? by anonymous_synik · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux? is that some new fangled hippie programming tool? does it run on windows?

  2. Re:AudioGalaxy by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Funny
    they've screwed me on a T-shirt.

    If you are good looking, that's something I'd like to see.

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    When information is power, privacy is freedom.
  3. Re:freenet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Freenet is to file sharing what Playboy is to pornography. Purely academic.

  4. Re:AudioGalaxy by elgen · · Score: 2, Funny


    ...install any spyware (I don't think there is something like that for Linux)...


    Yes there is. One day I ran a program called XEyes. While I had that program running, I had a strange feeling that someone was watching me and my work...