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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. Guess I'm not the only one... by Xserv · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seems to me that this just looks like BT in a new shell. I do agree with one of the previous posters that BT may not be the best thing to really become the "pulse" of the web generation, but enabled sharing between users in general is becoming more the norm -- not just music/movies/other DRM affected crap -- files in general.

    TFA doesn't really give you a whole lot to go on -- or the links to OFA's from TFA. (Follow that?)

    Xserv

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  2. Advertising I bet... by Ambush+Commander · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The extension is not listed at Mozilla Update yet. The home website has already been slashdotted. How do we know this is not just advertising?

  3. Here we go... by Cynical_Dude · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Cue braindead lawsuit by the tech-unsavvy against Mozilla in 5..4..3..2..

  4. save your time by DavidLeeRoth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.allpeers.com Port 80

  5. This is cool, but by AviLazar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    While I think this is cool - won't we get problems from organizations like RIAA/MPAA...what happens if they target FireFox? They are targeting the big guys, and FireFox is big.

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  6. AllPeers.com is down ... by Vortex_ICS · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is what I found a couple of minutes ago: Sorry, the good news is that we have been slashdotted... The bad news is that our server is down... Please come back later ! We apologize for the trouble.