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Firefox Gets File Sharing Extension

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Jonnty writes "Firefox finally has a good P2P extension.. "[It] incorporates peer-to-peer capabilities into the browser via a sidebar. AllPeers "combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent" to add media sharing to the long list of available extensions." "

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  1. Re:The future of data sharing? by __aaxwdb6741 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Whoa, that is one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard of.

    There are other protocols that, in my opinion, are better that BT. I've seen a few that use other (third party) users to mask both the sender and receiver from one-another. I believe this is going to be important especially when it comes to government regulation and censorship. I'm anti-copyright, so I couldn't care less about who owns what.

    These protocols need one or more centralized server(s) to function properly.

    I could even see a future where we could do away with DNS in the long term as we could access webpages or other information through this network of shared temporary file folders.

    Another idiotic idea. Why the hell would I want to spend my time LOOKING for the website I want, instead of just plain visiting it? Yes, this WOULD require me to look for the website. Also, security (Login information, et cetera) is practically impossible in such situations.

    What you're basically saying, is that we should all go back to sharing plain-text ASCII, but in a new way.
    I say NO THANK YOU, please leave the internet as it is already.
  2. Re:Nice Pre-Release PR by 1000StonedMonkeys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this impressive, again? My browsing and file-sharing are completely separate tasks, and the integration is as logical as putting file system defragmenting in a sidebar.

    This would be a good analogy if the only way you could defragment your hard drive was by clicking on links in firefox. When I click on an ftp link in firefox, firefox doesn't launch my ftp client. Why should clicking a torrent link be any different? To the average user, they're both just download links.