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Closed Gnutella System to Prevent Bandwidth Hogs

Posted by timothy on from the knock-knock dept.

prostoalex writes: "Salon.com is running a story on Gnutella developers contemplating the creation of a closed or authorization-only system to prevent bandwidth hogging. Turns out, numerous applications, including Xolox and QTraxMax employ quering algorithms that are capable of bringing the network traffic to a halt. While it gets better download speeds for the users of the aforementioned applications, the damage to network traffic as a whole is substantial."

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  1. Someone spell it out for me... by dimator · · Score: 1, Troll

    Can I still download my porn?

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  2. internet as a mirror to rl by fenux · · Score: 0, Troll

    since I'm using the internet i stopped believeng the pourdhomme's anarhy was a way to go, all people are born good, but since i'm using internet i see that most people have not consience that tellss them that sharin is the way, edonkey users limit their upload to a byte a second, napster user refuse to share, gnutella user behave like morons. it's really pissing me off seeing this behaviour, it even makes me think if people in irl are behaven slitly different because they might be able to use me in the future. maybe the moment they get a chance to abuse me they'll just do it. chances that the gnu community turnes in this i (a)buse but why should i give back. maybe thats a reason why i don't want every one of those freeloaders/egoist to use linux, they'll be the rotting apple destroying allt hat i love in the open community. i could go on for hours about this, but you get my point. those who don't get it are provbably those i want to block, but hey, we are open, just like democrazy can vote itself to totalarism, open can evolve into closed just by being open.