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P2P Services Speak Out Against Gnutella2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-want-my-p2p dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Three leading Gnultella services voice their opinions on Gnutella2 or Mike's Protocol as they refer to it as. None of the three recognize Gnutella2 as true Gnutella and worry its propritary protocol will divide the Gnutella community. In the first interview Vincent Falco of BearShare contributes his thoughts. The second interview gets input from Greg Blidson of LimeWire, and Arno Steenbekkers from XoloX."

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  1. I thought everyone used Kazaa by bushboy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can't remember the last time I ever considered Gnutella as an operable and useful P2P application.

    It was a mission to connect and even more of a problem to actually download useful content !

    Unless you were a l33t bandwidth wh0r3, it remains to this day, a useless p2p application.

    Kazaa on the other hand actually works !
    On a low bandwidth pipe, you can still obtain large files, even if it takes you a week to do it.

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  2. How does one "block" hostile clients? by McCart42 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would think that it would be fairly trivial to get past any blocks of a certain P2P agent (with an upgrade of the software, that is)...is there some information about the protocol that makes each client unique, and constantly so; i.e., upgrades to the software cannot change this identifying bit of the protocol for the client?

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  3. unfortunately... by rebelcool · · Score: 4, Interesting
    kazaa cannot locate 90% of the rare music i look for.

    If you want popular or semi-popular things, kazaa works well. For rare things, you might, if lucky, find one person somewhere who has it and it almost always returns 'Needs more sources'.

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