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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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    1. Re:Great idea... by briggsl · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Unfortunately, the social networking society we're in now, where the norm is to accept anyone who 'sends a friend request' will make darknets unworkable for the majority

    2. Re:Great idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, people still fileshare. I like streaming (youtube) but I still want high quality copies on my local machine which I can have access to even when the network/stream service goes down. And filesharing is useful for rare stuff.

    3. Re:Great idea... by Ninnle+Labs,+LLC · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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...

    4. Re:Great idea... by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So you'd rather Hulu and Netflix be sued into bankruptcy for streaming content

      You missed his point... he doesn't care what happens to Hulu or Netflix. They don't exist as far as he's concerned.

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    5. Re:Great idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      As a similarly affected European, I empathize, but I think it's important not to bite the hand that feeds you here; Hulu is one of the good guys. If they can succeed at showing the cartels at the local level that digital distribution is a good idea, then it will eventually expand to the global level. I wish them none but the best success.

      Until that actually happens I will join you in pirating, however.

  2. Re:Those services are not international by horza · · Score: 5, Insightful

    iTunes doesn't work with Linux, as jopsen says Hulu is US only (and the BBC iPlayer is UK only), and Moonlight is never going to gain any traction under Linux. Even Flash has only just arrived for 64-bit computers recently. The only reliable cross-platform and international way to watch movies is to download them via file-sharing.

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