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Gnutella2?
Anenga writes "A Windows (and somewhat WINE compatible) Gnutella client, Shareaza, has released a public preview of its next version which includes a re-designed Gnutella protocol they call "Gnutella2".
Gnutella2 (or "G2") dumps the Gnutella broadcast model and uses a new global searching method with UDP connections. It also features compression to limit hub-to-hub (G2 Ultrapeers) bandwidth, Tiger Tree Hashing etc. Shareaza has released a small description of the revised protocol here, but plans to release a full spec to the GDF after the release of v1.7 Final. Gnutella2, which is really a revised Gnutella protocol, will also be free and open for anyone to use in their clients. Shareaza and G2 may give Gnutella - an open and free P2P protocol which has been
struggling to keep up with the times against
Kazaa, eDonkey and other P2P
spin-offs - the stability and power it needs to attract the closed and
commercial FastTrack Network users when or if the network folds."
Anyone here find it just a wee bit ironic that a postabout BMG and their so-called "copy protection" (*chuckle*) is followed immediately by a rather technical article on a new, faster, better, low-density P2P client?
Hell, they haven't even managed to shut the _first_ version down!
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
if people tested out this network by trading only BMG files at first. Have to beta test and all though I suppose.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it! --Yogi Berra--
I even got my girlfriend, boss, and brother using Bearshare.
You got a girlfriend, boss and Brother from a P2P applications! Wow what search are you using?!
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Does anyone actually use P2P networks for legal uses?!?!?!?!?!? e.g. not mp3/porn..
.nfo's and .cue's?
:-)
*thinking hard*
Downloading
AFAIK, those aren't illegal.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
"Skank", "Ogre", and "Homosexual".
I even got my girlfriend, boss, and brother using Bearshare.
;-)
I'll bet all three are the same person
At first I saw you worked for LimeWire, and felt a small amount of respect - then I remember the bullshit hoops I had to go through to clean my system of the utter crap it installed through my system directories and the registry.
I hate to say it, but I'm starting to get a pretty good chuckle every time I see some poor Windows user griping about the amount of pain they go through to get "good downloadz". I hear whining about "pop up" or "pop under" ads. I hear complaining about "spyware". I hear complaining about "mandatory sharing" in P2P apps. I hear people frantic that newer P2P apps can "fake" shares (like on Direct Connect) because of piss-poorly designed architectures involving trusted remote code.
It's all really funny to those of us who have been using open source P2P clients and Mozilla on Linux. *We* haven't seen a single one of these problems, and *we* aren't suffering.
But, you know what? I encourage pop-ups. And intrusive advertising, spyware, and everything else. Why? It doesn't affect me in the least, and it means that *you* are subsidizing the good life for me. Each pop-up you see funds another good, clean pop-up free page for me.
Of course, someday you people are going to catch on. You're going to use Mozilla, use Linux. You're going to use better P2P clients. But until that day, the rest of us are going to enjoy the good life.
Until then, thanks for everything!
May we never see th
It's a shame that all the Windows P2P clients use things that look like their UI designer is an ex-web designer.
UNIX P2P clients don't suffer from this problem.
May we never see th
Your career? Huh? You were distributing files illegally. What career is that????