P2P Meets Push

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday May 21, 2003 @04:56AM from the push-meets-shove,-shove-meets-lawyers... dept.

meonkeys writes "What if you could securely subscribe to a trusted P2P file broadcaster? Check out konspire! An interesting concept; implemented in C++ and controllable via a cool Web interface ala Mutella."

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Five seconds for the lawsuits to hit by ites · 2003-05-21 04:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Pushing files, huh? It's as bad as pushing drugs. Into jail, my little hacker-bee.

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1. Re:Five seconds for the lawsuits to hit by PMuse · 2003-05-21 07:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "Konspire"? Speaking of lawsuits . . . Might want to give some thought to the product name here, guys. Image, image, image.
  
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My long time dream by SpanishInquisition · 2003-05-21 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

now I don't have to search for porn, porn comes to me.

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Re:Yes! by Phroggy · 2003-05-21 05:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Now I don't have to manually download crappy rips of my favorite songs, I can have them forced upon me! :-)

No, crappy rips of somebody else's favorite songs will be forced upon you.

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upgrading gentoo by PhiberOptix · 2003-05-21 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny

without konspire: 8 hours d/ling, compiling software
with konspire: 7h55m compiling software

Wohoo!
maybe I've been surfing the web too long by bensej · 2003-05-21 05:18 · Score: 5, Funny

But I refuse to download anything from a website with a black background.
Re:Yes! by nemski · 2003-05-21 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I don't have to manually download crappy rips of my favorite songs, I can have them forced upon me!

It's called radio.

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Re:I just installed it... by Mantorp · 2003-05-21 06:36 · Score: 4, Funny

according to the directions I think you're supposed to go to bed now
Microsoft security stance by vaxer · 2003-05-21 07:14 · Score: 4, Funny

"Oh look," said the Microsoft [ mail | update | web ] client, "a rusted needle is sticking out of a pile of garbage bags!"

"Needles," it reasoned, "often contain medicine."

And, so reasoning, it jammed the rusty needle directly into its ass.

Moral of the story:

"Executable email messages are one of the worst ideas I've ever heard of. And that's saying something." -- Mark Wooding, in BUGTRAQ