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Exeem "Successor" to Suprnova Announced
First, Exeem really isn't an extension of Suprnova as the hype might have you believe: the connection between the two seems more marketing than anything else. Sloncek has been hired to promote their product as the heir apparent to his popular website, but his involvement really seems to be almost entirely PR. It'll work obviously: my headline on this story mentions Suprnova, and so will hundreds of websites around the world in the coming days. "Yet another p2p app" would not create anywhere near the waves that "Successor to Suprnova Announced" will. I hope that people judge exeem by its own merits and not by its (clever) marketing.
Second, Exeem is pretty much what was rumored earlier: a blending of the tracker, the BitTorrent client, and decentralized indexing. It's Windows only. It's in beta now, and will be out at some indeterminate date in the future. It also has a rating and commenting system which appears to be somewhat rudimentary. It's unclear to me if the rating system will be as useless as other attempts, and I think this is the critical thing: Suprnova succeeded because the content available on it was verified and trustworthy. Suprnova was as much the work of a few dozen editors as it was a list of torrent URLs. So far no other p2p system has achieved that level of accuracy. Exeem supports magnet sites which is a start, but not exactly p2p either. And did I mention that it's adware?
Third, there's a mystery company. Someone is paying Sloncek. He won't say who, but there's a history in the p2p world of secretive development. Since Exeem is to be adware, someday it will have a billing address, which means the legal issues faced by predecessors like Napster and Kazaa will be forthcoming, which is of course why we have a mystery company that Sloncek won't talk about in the first place. We definitely haven't heard the last of this.
Personally I was hoping for more: source code and cross platform compatibility never hurts. These are the things that made BitTorrent a huge success. I guess I was hoping for a new protocol instead of just another Kazaa. I guess I was hoping for a monumental leap, and instead Exeem to be a more incremental step. I'm sure we'll learn more in the coming weeks.
Thank you, CmdrTaco, from one pirate to another. Without the valuable news service Slashdot provides, I would never know about the latest piracy-tracking websites that allow me to download everything without--gasp--paying for it. I just know all the artists I'm protecting from their willingly signed contracts and all the filmmakers who spent a year of their lives making the movies I'm ripping will appreciate my actions. Damn the MPAA/RIAA for going after the downloaders, exactly as you, Rob Malda, and other Slashdotters suggested they should in 2000 during the Napster trial!
It's my right to illegally copy someone else's works and distribute them how I want. I feel I'm entitled to everything just because I want it and don't want to pay for it. Well, except GPL code--that stuff is protected by GPL copyright, darn it, and down with any company who "steals" it! But otherwise, I think all my actions are justified because I don't want to feel guilty about being a thief, so I invent entire mindsets about how it's the copyright holders whose rights I'm violating who are the bad guys. How dare they attempt to make money putting out stuff! I'm entitled to freely obtain everything they put out for sale. I also never had to work for anything in my life, and my parents bought my car for me growing up, so it's only natural I have the same sense of whiny entitlement the other bitter freeloaders have.
In case you're dense, it's sarcasm...and no, I won't be surprised to see this modded down.
It's the big elephant in the room, yet the editors just gloss over this like it didn't exist.
As long as people keep thiinking like this, you'll just perpetuate the image that you guys are defending piracy.
Moron, timeshifting (AKA downloading pirated copyrighted material) is NOT LEGAL.
The Romans never has a problem with 'kiddie' porn and they managed to take over most of Europe for a while.
All I'm saying is kiddie porn is what you and society make it.
I don't agree with 'kiddie porn', but then I put it in the same bag as sweet companies advertising to kids who get fat, develop diabetes, heart problems and get pregnant when the pill doesn't work any more.
Unfortunatly it's left up to the may day protesters to burn down the sweet factories and RIAA whilst the mums are burning down perves and free-net.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Rape is forced it doesn't matter if it's a child, a man or a dog, child porn isn't necessarily forced so I wouldn't call it rape, it could be sexual abuse or it could be taking advantage of a minor. Eating too many corn-flakes may kill you in the end,is murder worse than rape?
Romans didn't force the kids to join in, but they still did, you don't hear much about how the Romans were all traumatised because they practised incest and let the kids join in.
Again I don't condone child porn, I do condone someone using it as a reason for not using freenet.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
This lame attempt at skirting the law through technicality will most undoubtedly be laughed out of even the most liberal courts in the land. It is patently obvious that what you want to do is beyond the scope of fair use.. good luck