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LimeWire Brings Darknets To All

Posted by samzenpus on from the yes-have-some dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LimeWire's new version lets people create private darknets with contacts on any Jabber server (like GMail or LiveJournal). It's different than the recent p2p darknet announcement because it doesn't use onion routing. Sharing with a friend connects directly to that friend. If you're worried about exposing personal information, LW5 doesn't share documents with the p2p network by default."

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  1. Great idea... by Chabil+Ha' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until you start letting 'friends' join your peer network with usernames like Riaa250k into your 'private network'.

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  2. huh? by Cornwallis · · Score: 4, Funny

    "LimeWire's new version lets people create private darknets with contacts on any Jabber server (like GMail or LiveJournal). It's different than the recent p2p darknet announcement because it doesn't use onion routing." For some reason reading that statement brings to mind Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    1. Re:huh? by Aladrin · · Score: 3, Funny

      I have to admit. I got a mental image of a guy looking at an onion and then throwing it away. Magic.

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  3. Re:Funny by aliquis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me guess, you don't have a facebook account?

  4. Terribly dangerous in a way by meist3r · · Score: 2, Funny

    So right now we have open, public sharing infrastructure that can be arguably used for both purposes. Legal and illegal sharing. The people trying to sue users can't automatically assume that just because you're using the technology you must be a criminal. Darknets are satan's work and for terrorists only amirite? So you get caught using one of those and you're auto-screwed (interval 5sec).

    This is of course adapted thinking from the way our authorities work atm.

  5. Kill hulu with fire; salt the remains by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    Segmenting the internet back into region specific chunks is probably the worst thing that happened since MySpace.

    So you'd rather Hulu and Netflix be sued into bankruptcy for streaming content to places in the world they have no right to do so? Yeah, that'd be a much greater idea...

    Yes!

    Well, no, I wish them a violent, painful death. But bankruptcy is an acceptable compromise.

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  6. Re:Somewhat unimpressed .. by jonaskoelker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it me or is that not exactly a huge innovation?

    Haven't you read other news in IT lately?

    MSN msgr, Yahoo chat, ICQ, Google talk et al. all reinvented IRC each in their own mutually incompatible way. Then they added file transfer that wasn't FTP.

    Web 2.0 is a reinvention of the mainframe with thin clients on dumb terminals. JavaScript is becoming a reinvention of python, except with curlies. JSON is a reinvention of XML, which is a reinvention of s-expressions.

    Next up, someone's going to reinvent the business process of reinventing the wheel in slightly different and incompatible ways ("for added value", of course) and patent the method. Hey, that'd be a good use of business method patents.

    Can you tell I'm bitter? ;)