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LimeWire Brings Darknets To All
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."
Hulu, iTunes, and Netflix are great if you want to watch the content on your computer, or buy a few different boxes to watch content on your TV. For me, it is way faster to just download the content from usenet and pop it on a USB stick for watching on my DiVX DVD player. Perhaps when that dies I'll look into building a Hulu/Netflix/iTunes streamer - since you sure can't buy one.
Even then, you are at the mercy of the content providers and their whims. Usenet seems to be much more resistant to a point failure. You can also use usenet like a poor-man's TiVo, plugging keywords into your download application which then download when they become available.
And the movie selection is far, far greater on usenet - with much more up-to-date releases. Region coding is meaningless, so the instant a movie shows up on DVD or Blueray it is on Usenet... and sometimes even before.
Of course, the content owners get nothing from all of this, so some will argue stealing and evil and blah, blah. I speed, too. 5-10 over the limit, baby. Oh, yeah, I'm such an OUTLAW! All I want is an unencumbered file to play on my DVD player. I still can't get that from the content providers, so they can sue me or something.
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