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Earthlink Releases SIP Based P2P File-Sharing App

Kaseijin writes "'We believe that if peer-to-peer flourishes, the Internet flourishes.' Earthlink's Research and Development division has released SIPshare, a prototype file-sharing application based on SIP. The code is available under a BSD-style license."

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  1. Good Bye EarthLink by linsys · · Score: 1, Funny

    The subject says it all......

  2. Quoting the Wikipedia link sited for "SIP": by idontgno · · Score: 3, Funny
    A goal for SIP was to provide a superset of the call processing functions and features present in the public switched telephone network (PSTN). As such, features that permit familiar telephone-like operations are present: dialing a number, causing a phone to ring, hearing ringback tones or a busy signal. Implementation and terminology are different.

    Does SIP reproduce the "Doot-doot-doot-We're sorry, the file you are downloading has been disconncted."?

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  3. We Are Visionaries! by underpar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Finally, EarthLink SIPshare is NOT a supported EarthLink product. It is more than anything else a manifestation of an idea."

    Trouble us not with your lame questions! We are busy making the internet flourish!

  4. Re:WRONG! It's my (ex-)ISP! by vchoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no no no!!!

    He should of said it like this:

    He WAS using Windows 2000 to priate some other kind of free operating system using "some kind of file sharing application"

    The intent is there & that sounds much better (esp. on /.)!

  5. blocks socks smarts by evilmousse · · Score: 2, Funny

    from the blocklist:
    Port 1080: SOCKS versions 4 & 5 - Same as Port 80 above.

    that's a really smart inclusion, to proactively scan for vulnerable SOCKS hosts.
    i remember way back when on irc, just scan chatters' hosts for open socks ports and try plugging their hosts into mirc if it bounced back, voila, 3/5 times i had a new hostname as visible on irc. unbannable, especially if using an ops hostname ^^
    in wonder if that's still the case...

    ya gotta plug the kiddie holes first, imho
    (GOD could that be taken poorly out of context...)

    -evilme