Is it really as decentralized as it's touted to be?
Just last week ago an article popped up on the File Sharing Portal ZeroPaid which described new evidence that FastTrack (Kazaa, iMesh etc.) has more of a centralized nature than we once believed.
Not only does it have a Centralized server used as a Bootstrap (To find Supernodes), but it also has NETWORK SUPERNODES. Meaning, they are dedicated Supernodes on a server. They are always up, always fast, always avaliable. In addition, the Network has a central server for bootstrap porposes and so that they can regulate which clients connect to the network (they have a gateway system, that's how they turned off Morpheus). Network Peers and regular Supernodes (computer users) are involved as well.
The developers of FastTrack (names) have opened a new website called Joltid which has a model similar to what the RIAA said it was like. I'm guessing the website is for companies to purchase the technology, but the developers will no longer release clients for free to the public. This is obviously saying "Kazaa is gone, time to start up a new company."
Oh well. If FastTrack goes down (which it will), there are many, many, many alternatives.
RIAA seeks summary judgement against Musiccity , Kazaa and Grokster.
When you say "MusicCity", I'm guessing your talking about Morpheus?
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but Morpheus is on the Gnutella Network. The Gntuella Network is decentralized (no central server, *NOT* a Napster clone) (well, if you count GWebCache/Bootstraps as being decentralized). I doubt they could stop users on Morpheus. They could stop the vendor from distributing it's client, but not the network. Since Shareaza, Bearshare, Limewire, Gnucleus, Ares, and many many others use the Gnutella network as their network of choice for their P2P Clients.
Actually, it may be good for Morpheus to be dropped from the Gnutella circle. Morpheus is hurting the network by soaking up all the leaf nodes, and not supplying the network with any Ultrapeers (in v1.0). Before, Morpheus would allow ANY of it's nodes to become Ultrapeers, now it doesn't allow ANY of them to become Ultrapeers. Errr. There is now a major Ultrapeer shortage on Gnutella (takes a long time to connect, hard to retain a stable connection).
Before, they [Morpheus] wouldn't allow any of teir nodes to become ultrapeers, flooding the network with bad Ultrapeers (you have to be "elected" as an Ultrapeer with good details: Good OS (not Win 98/95), Good Connection (T1 and higher probably), and have a good uptime history. Morpheus ignored that, and just let anyone of their nodes become an Ultrapeer. Hurting the network.
Morpheus has proven unable to keep up with the times. They have yet to implament major Gnutella fundamentals into their system. Ultrapeers, Partial File Sharing, Upload Queue, Download Mesh... I've seen none of that.
So long Morpheus. Lets hope MusicCity doesn't bring down the rest of the network circle along with it...
[q]Certainly ugly, and probably has an impact on the native wildlife as well. Now multiply that by 100x or so to get enough windmills to actually power California, and you'll have most of the state covered in ugly white towers...[/q] Um. I've driven past these same areas your talking about everytime my family and I go to Disneyland (we live in the Bay Area) and I think that's one of the coolest parts of the trip. Me and my siblings love seeing those windmills, especially when you think "Think of all the money, labor and pollution you save!".
Wildlife (birds) and Nature a risk from Windmillls? Give me a break. The area which you are talking about there is hardly no wildlife, except bugs maybe. The birds know not to run into Windmills, I've never heard any startling statistics because the drop in population of birds.
Besides, the area which you are talking about is nothing but a freeway, desert hills. Maybe if there were communities over there or something. Do you really think the Danish are going to put these things in your backyard??
Somebody had to be the sponge, the magnet, whatever - to suck in all the legal battles from the RIAA and allow Gnutella to be born in the background. No matter how many TRL Appearances Shawn Fanning had, how many teens rallied against the RIAA, nothing could stop the impending demise of Napster.
Napster really did pave the way for P2P File Sharing, and they deserve some respect. I mean, who here didn't use Napster?
A: Flaws have been discovered in MD4 and thus it is very very weak. See:
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/3-6-6.htm l "Dobbertin [Dob95] has shown how collisions for the full version of MD4 can be found in under a minute on a typical PC... Clearly, MD4 should now be considered broken."
MD5 has been discovered to be "not as strong as it was intended to be", and thus not suitable for some applications, though there is no urgent need to replace it in all deployed code. From the same URL:
"More recent work by Dobbertin has extended the techniques used so effectively in the analysis of MD4 to find collisions for the compression function of MD5 [DB96b]. While stopping short of providing collisions for the hash function in its entirety this is clearly a significant step."...and..
"Van Oorschot and Wiener [VW94] have considered a brute-force search for collisions (see Question 2.1.6) in hash functions, and they estimate a collision search machine designed specifically for MD5 (costing $10 million in 1994) could find a collision for MD5 in 24 days on average."
After 8 years of cheapening computer power and theoretical research, it would not be unreasonable to assume that such a special-purpose MD5 collision machine might be creatable today that costs less than $100,000 and/or finds collisions in a matter of hours, rather than 24 days.
So MD5 is not a good default hash choice if you want unique resource identifiers that will survive many years and many clever threat models.
SHA1, while of the same family of hashes as MD4 and MD5, remains uncompromised by any research discoveries, and is widely used in many applications requiring the highest levels of security.
- Gojomo
** Disclaimer: That was answered by Gordon Mohr on the GDF, not me.
Limewire is behind, in my opinion. It still has not added Remote Queuing (like IRC has, wait in queue slots instead of hammering nodes). And BTW, nearly all contemporary Gnutella clients (Gnucleus, Shareaza, Bearshare, Xolox etc.) have HUGE added.
Shareaza and Bearshare have already added it, and it's working great.
Limewire I would not recommend, Shareaza is probably your best bet on the latest Gnutella Technologies.
I disagree. Being anonymous is bad. It's like saying "Were going underground, so you [RIAA/MPAA] cannot find us!". It defeats the entire point of P2P Networks (or, at least, Gnutella). If you have nothing to hide, why are you anonymous? And if your anonymous, then we must asume you are up to no good, right?
Why not just contribute to Gnutella? If you feel it's flawed in some ways, join the Gnutella Developer Forum (GDF). I'm sure they'd be glad to hear your suggestions on improving it, and maybe you'll help make it better and gain some legitamate respect and reputation in the process.
Going and creating your own Network isn't always the best solution. Gnutella is very good in alot of ways, and yes it has alot of problems and could be better. But the best thing is that all the developers come together and try to fix the network and better their clients.
What's better, 5 networks with 5 developers, or 1 network with 5 developers? I think the second network would have more of a chance fighting the RIAA/MPAA and succeed at creating the ideal Decentralized P2P Network (without GWebCache, Bootstraps etc.) than those 5 same developers shooting aimlessly in the dark alone.
quoting Richard Evans (famous for the AI engine in Black & White). My favourite quote: '[AI] Characters [in the game] even have the ability to dynamically create their own language, constructing simple sentences on a word by word basis.'"
Jeez, I can't even do that! Next thing you know, your characters will be calling you dirty things in a language you don't even know! Who will be "Intelligent" then?
I was going to download it and make a MAGNET link, but I can't even get the file:P If you have it, run it through Bitzi and share the Hash with us!
If you want to share it the right way, share it on Shareaza, then right click the file in your library and go to "Copy URL". Then paste the URL up here =)
If your really cool, you'll download Mozilla through Gnutella using Shareaza.
I've included four sources in this MAGNET URI link, so when you click it you can download a chunk of the file off each of them! I even added myself as a source. And if everyone shares, we can all download the file of peers instead of the servers!
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:M3UDEZTSE2UK7C6BC2EYF5VFN6N3 DB SJ&dn=mozilla-win32-1.1-installer.exe&xs=http%3A// 12.240.86.81%3A6346/uri-res/N2R%3Furn%3Asha1%3AM3U DEZTSE2UK7C6BC2EYF5VFN6N3DBSJ&xs=http://ftp.mozill a.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/mozilla-win3 2-1.1-installer.exe&xs=http://archive.progeny.com/ mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/mozilla-win32-1.1-inst aller.exe&xs=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/i nfosystems/WWW/clients/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/mozilla-win32-1.1-installer.exe
Copy and Paste it in Shareaza under "Tools -> Download URL".
Lets hope it's a 13 year old african-american girl, with braces, pigtails, lives in a low-income household, and her only means of hearing her idol - Venessa Williams - sing is through an MP3 on her library's computer.
One week after she is thrown into Juvi, expect Venessa Williams to give her a special one-on-one performance (LIVE on the TODAY Show, of course!) along with a brand new Dell Computer, presented to her by the "Dude! Your gettin' a Dell!" guy, and hugs and kisses by President Bush and the rest of the Nation's leaders.
Following that, expect all those politicans who started this entire fiasco to never have a Government job again.
I agree to some of that, Gnutella isn't ready in alot of ways, but it's improving constantly. When Morpheus switched, it hurt the network because it didn't have any Ultrapeer-election system (The buggy Gnucleus Clone, that Morpheus used as it's client), and allowed any node to become an Ultrapeer, even if they are a 56k user, on Windows 98.
If KazaA users switched to Shareaza, I think Gnutella would hold up quite fine. On the other hand, however, if they all poured into Morpheus, the network would get hurt.
KazaA works better than Gnutella because in alot of ways, it's Centralized. If you nuked the Kazaa HQ, it would die. If you nuked any part of Gnutella, it would still function as if nothing had happened. That's the difference. And that's why the FastTrack, or any centralized P2P Protocol, will not survive. Or at least, not with the RIAA on the same planet.
I freely invite the RIAA to cannonball their blood sucking lawyers over to the FastTrack Network's Kazaa.
Time to get rid of that Spyware infested, Computer-taking-over, garbage. Then I'll celebrate as I watch the users pour onto Gnutella - an open, free, decentralized environment.
The free (as in "Centralized") ride is over folks'.
Clients (Shareaza started it, now Bearshare and Limewire are adding it) are now implamenting "File Queueing", just like how IRC has. It will tell you what queue slot your in, how many people are ahead of you, and how much time you may have left.
DeChat (Decentralized Chat) is now a big buzword in the Gnutella community. Clients such as Shareaza are working on adding it soon. This will alow you to find and join chatrooms similar to your intrests, and connect you to peers who have similar intrests as you do. So you can join "Anime" and find over 100+ online peers who have good Anime content. Where it would of taken hours, days or even months to connect through all of them using the Ultrapeer system.
People need to realize that Gnutella is now fastly becoming a big player in the function and value of the Internet.
Gnutella, in my view (and many others), is not a mecca for porn, warez, and MP3's - but a pool where anyone can share any type of file.
A bigger trend now showing up is linking to files on the Gnutella network instead of the common http://site.com/file.zip. How does this benfit you? You get faster downloads by utilizing partial file sharing, swarm downloads, etc. It also benfits servers greatly. They now aren't the only source for the download, because once the file gets onto a Gnutella client, it searches for more peers, and shares the load with them. This can save TREMENDOUS bandwidth.
For example, Linux can link to Linux links as such: magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:(InsertSHA1)&dn=Linux&xs=http://www.linux.org/linux.iso
(not an actual correct MAGNET link, but you get the idea)
When someone clicks that, it opens it up in a Gnutella client. It begins downloading from that source, and searching for the same file on the Gnutella network. Through the entire life of the download, it will continue to add sources. You could then be downloading from over 30 people at once, gaining speeds of up to 10MBPS+.
Oh, the power of Gnutella. Can KazAa (FastTrack) do that?! (Well, it can, kind of:P)
Oh, how do you know if that's the correct file? Hashing. Gnutella servents are implamenting hashing now, where each file has it's own hash. So when searching for files, they can swarm you downloads. You are GUARANTEED that all the sources your downloading from are in fact the same file, because they have the same hash (SHa1). That's whats getting the RIAA so scared:P No longer can they infect files and make them the same file size/file name.
Also new on the scene (well, new as in new popularity) is Bitzi. Bitzi catologs hashs (bitprints). You can search through their database, and find files with hashes. Click the hashes, and you can download a file. Each file on bitzi has a "Bitzi Ticket" where you can rate the file. You can mark it "Invalid/Misleading" which means it is not the file you want. You can mark them if they contain virus's too. I can almost hear the sweat dripping from the RIAA Lawyers foreheads.
Want to see the future of Gnutella? Check out Shareaza (WINE Compatable).
Make money with advertising? PLEASE. How much money does AOL think they're making with their boxed little AIM adverts? Um, probably nothing.
Their AOL adverts on AIM is advertising at it's worst. (as in results)
What could they be getting? 0.01 CPM? Well, they're probably getting more... but the people paying high prices for those adverts are getting ripped off.
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Another way to be heard is to spell correctly.
Not only does it have a Centralized server used as a Bootstrap (To find Supernodes), but it also has NETWORK SUPERNODES. Meaning, they are dedicated Supernodes on a server. They are always up, always fast, always avaliable. In addition, the Network has a central server for bootstrap porposes and so that they can regulate which clients connect to the network (they have a gateway system, that's how they turned off Morpheus). Network Peers and regular Supernodes (computer users) are involved as well.
The developers of FastTrack (names) have opened a new website called Joltid which has a model similar to what the RIAA said it was like. I'm guessing the website is for companies to purchase the technology, but the developers will no longer release clients for free to the public. This is obviously saying "Kazaa is gone, time to start up a new company."
Oh well. If FastTrack goes down (which it will), there are many, many, many alternatives.
When you say "MusicCity", I'm guessing your talking about Morpheus?
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but Morpheus is on the Gnutella Network. The Gntuella Network is decentralized (no central server, *NOT* a Napster clone) (well, if you count GWebCache/Bootstraps as being decentralized). I doubt they could stop users on Morpheus. They could stop the vendor from distributing it's client, but not the network. Since Shareaza, Bearshare, Limewire, Gnucleus, Ares, and many many others use the Gnutella network as their network of choice for their P2P Clients.
Actually, it may be good for Morpheus to be dropped from the Gnutella circle. Morpheus is hurting the network by soaking up all the leaf nodes, and not supplying the network with any Ultrapeers (in v1.0). Before, Morpheus would allow ANY of it's nodes to become Ultrapeers, now it doesn't allow ANY of them to become Ultrapeers. Errr. There is now a major Ultrapeer shortage on Gnutella (takes a long time to connect, hard to retain a stable connection).
Before, they [Morpheus] wouldn't allow any of teir nodes to become ultrapeers, flooding the network with bad Ultrapeers (you have to be "elected" as an Ultrapeer with good details: Good OS (not Win 98/95), Good Connection (T1 and higher probably), and have a good uptime history. Morpheus ignored that, and just let anyone of their nodes become an Ultrapeer. Hurting the network.
Morpheus has proven unable to keep up with the times. They have yet to implament major Gnutella fundamentals into their system. Ultrapeers, Partial File Sharing, Upload Queue, Download Mesh... I've seen none of that.
So long Morpheus. Lets hope MusicCity doesn't bring down the rest of the network circle along with it...
[q]Certainly ugly, and probably has an impact on the native wildlife as well. Now multiply that by 100x or so to get enough windmills to actually power California, and you'll have most of the state covered in ugly white towers...[/q]
Um. I've driven past these same areas your talking about everytime my family and I go to Disneyland (we live in the Bay Area) and I think that's one of the coolest parts of the trip. Me and my siblings love seeing those windmills, especially when you think "Think of all the money, labor and pollution you save!".
Wildlife (birds) and Nature a risk from Windmillls? Give me a break. The area which you are talking about there is hardly no wildlife, except bugs maybe. The birds know not to run into Windmills, I've never heard any startling statistics because the drop in population of birds.
Besides, the area which you are talking about is nothing but a freeway, desert hills. Maybe if there were communities over there or something. Do you really think the Danish are going to put these things in your backyard??
If anything is killing the birds, it's tall buildings at night in the direct path for migrating birds. There are a number of factors which cause birds to die every year because of humans, but Windmills is really not one of them.
How it sprung from one Man's imagination, and now is dominated by blood-sucking corperations who's only intention is to make money.
I bet if you would ask one of those TV Producer drones "Wasen't Philo T. Farnsworth great?" they'd reply with "Who??".
It will be interesting to see if there are any dedications to him today on TV. If not, that's pretty sad.
It still has 2 lives left, I mean... it is a "Kitty", isn't it? ;)
Somebody had to be the sponge, the magnet, whatever - to suck in all the legal battles from the RIAA and allow Gnutella to be born in the background. No matter how many TRL Appearances Shawn Fanning had, how many teens rallied against the RIAA, nothing could stop the impending demise of Napster.
Napster really did pave the way for P2P File Sharing, and they deserve some respect. I mean, who here didn't use Napster?
Quoth the GDF (Gnutella Developer Forum):
m l
...and..
Q: Why SHA1 and not MD4 or MD5?
A: Flaws have been discovered in MD4 and thus it is very very
weak. See:
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/3-6-6.ht
"Dobbertin [Dob95] has shown how collisions for the full
version of MD4 can be found in under a minute on a
typical PC... Clearly, MD4 should now be considered
broken."
MD5 has been discovered to be "not as strong as it was
intended to be", and thus not suitable for some applications,
though there is no urgent need to replace it in all deployed
code. From the same URL:
"More recent work by Dobbertin has extended the techniques
used so effectively in the analysis of MD4 to find collisions
for the compression function of MD5 [DB96b]. While stopping
short of providing collisions for the hash function in its
entirety this is clearly a significant step."
"Van Oorschot and Wiener [VW94] have considered a brute-force
search for collisions (see Question 2.1.6) in hash functions,
and they estimate a collision search machine designed
specifically for MD5 (costing $10 million in 1994) could find
a collision for MD5 in 24 days on average."
After 8 years of cheapening computer power and theoretical
research, it would not be unreasonable to assume that such
a special-purpose MD5 collision machine might be creatable
today that costs less than $100,000 and/or finds collisions
in a matter of hours, rather than 24 days.
So MD5 is not a good default hash choice if you want unique
resource identifiers that will survive many years and many
clever threat models.
SHA1, while of the same family of hashes as MD4 and MD5,
remains uncompromised by any research discoveries, and
is widely used in many applications requiring the highest
levels of security.
- Gojomo
** Disclaimer: That was answered by Gordon Mohr on the GDF, not me.
Limewire is behind, in my opinion. It still has not added Remote Queuing (like IRC has, wait in queue slots instead of hammering nodes). And BTW, nearly all contemporary Gnutella clients (Gnucleus, Shareaza, Bearshare, Xolox etc.) have HUGE added.
Shareaza and Bearshare have already added it, and it's working great.
Limewire I would not recommend, Shareaza is probably your best bet on the latest Gnutella Technologies.
Why not just contribute to Gnutella? If you feel it's flawed in some ways, join the Gnutella Developer Forum (GDF). I'm sure they'd be glad to hear your suggestions on improving it, and maybe you'll help make it better and gain some legitamate respect and reputation in the process.
Going and creating your own Network isn't always the best solution. Gnutella is very good in alot of ways, and yes it has alot of problems and could be better. But the best thing is that all the developers come together and try to fix the network and better their clients.
What's better, 5 networks with 5 developers, or 1 network with 5 developers? I think the second network would have more of a chance fighting the RIAA/MPAA and succeed at creating the ideal Decentralized P2P Network (without GWebCache, Bootstraps etc.) than those 5 same developers shooting aimlessly in the dark alone.
Jeez, I can't even do that! Next thing you know, your characters will be calling you dirty things in a language you don't even know! Who will be "Intelligent" then?
I was going to download it and make a MAGNET link, but I can't even get the file :P If you have it, run it through Bitzi and share the Hash with us!
If you want to share it the right way, share it on Shareaza, then right click the file in your library and go to "Copy URL". Then paste the URL up here =)
When when I read this article, all I could think about was "Skin Cancer"...
Just To Let You Know, that is the Win32 version. Perhaps someone else can karma-whore a Linux/Mac MAGNET URI up.
If your really cool, you'll download Mozilla through Gnutella using Shareaza.
3 DB SJ&dn=mozilla-win32-1.1-installer.exe&xs=http%3A// 12.240.86.81%3A6346/uri-res/N2R%3Furn%3Asha1%3AM3U DEZTSE2UK7C6BC2EYF5VFN6N3DBSJ&xs=http://ftp.mozill a.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/mozilla-win3 2-1.1-installer.exe&xs=http://archive.progeny.com/ mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/mozilla-win32-1.1-inst aller.exe&xs=http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/i nfosystems/WWW/clients/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1 /mozilla-win32-1.1-installer.exe
I've included four sources in this MAGNET URI link, so when you click it you can download a chunk of the file off each of them! I even added myself as a source. And if everyone shares, we can all download the file of peers instead of the servers!
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:M3UDEZTSE2UK7C6BC2EYF5VFN6N
Copy and Paste it in Shareaza under "Tools -> Download URL".
Oh the Power of Gnutella!
Lets hope it's a 13 year old african-american girl, with braces, pigtails, lives in a low-income household, and her only means of hearing her idol - Venessa Williams - sing is through an MP3 on her library's computer.
One week after she is thrown into Juvi, expect Venessa Williams to give her a special one-on-one performance (LIVE on the TODAY Show, of course!) along with a brand new Dell Computer, presented to her by the "Dude! Your gettin' a Dell!" guy, and hugs and kisses by President Bush and the rest of the Nation's leaders.
Following that, expect all those politicans who started this entire fiasco to never have a Government job again.
I can see it now.
"You can go ahead and release those terrorists from Cell Block A, we have some new comers here."
"Oh, who are they?"
"Sally, Age 15. Eric, Age 17 and Linda, their mother, age 42."
"What they do? Kill families? Rape children? Run a plane into buildings?!"
"Nope, they downloaded Britney Spears latest song off Kazaa"
I agree to some of that, Gnutella isn't ready in alot of ways, but it's improving constantly. When Morpheus switched, it hurt the network because it didn't have any Ultrapeer-election system (The buggy Gnucleus Clone, that Morpheus used as it's client), and allowed any node to become an Ultrapeer, even if they are a 56k user, on Windows 98.
If KazaA users switched to Shareaza, I think Gnutella would hold up quite fine. On the other hand, however, if they all poured into Morpheus, the network would get hurt.
KazaA works better than Gnutella because in alot of ways, it's Centralized. If you nuked the Kazaa HQ, it would die. If you nuked any part of Gnutella, it would still function as if nothing had happened. That's the difference. And that's why the FastTrack, or any centralized P2P Protocol, will not survive. Or at least, not with the RIAA on the same planet.
I freely invite the RIAA to cannonball their blood sucking lawyers over to the FastTrack Network's Kazaa.
Time to get rid of that Spyware infested, Computer-taking-over, garbage. Then I'll celebrate as I watch the users pour onto Gnutella - an open, free, decentralized environment.
The free (as in "Centralized") ride is over folks'.
DeChat (Decentralized Chat) is now a big buzword in the Gnutella community. Clients such as Shareaza are working on adding it soon. This will alow you to find and join chatrooms similar to your intrests, and connect you to peers who have similar intrests as you do. So you can join "Anime" and find over 100+ online peers who have good Anime content. Where it would of taken hours, days or even months to connect through all of them using the Ultrapeer system.
Stop the FUD.
: //www.linux.org/linux.iso
:P)
:P No longer can they infect files and make them the same file size/file name.
People need to realize that Gnutella is now fastly becoming a big player in the function and value of the Internet.
Gnutella, in my view (and many others), is not a mecca for porn, warez, and MP3's - but a pool where anyone can share any type of file.
A bigger trend now showing up is linking to files on the Gnutella network instead of the common http://site.com/file.zip. How does this benfit you? You get faster downloads by utilizing partial file sharing, swarm downloads, etc. It also benfits servers greatly. They now aren't the only source for the download, because once the file gets onto a Gnutella client, it searches for more peers, and shares the load with them. This can save TREMENDOUS bandwidth.
For example, Linux can link to Linux links as such: magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:(InsertSHA1)&dn=Linux&xs=http
(not an actual correct MAGNET link, but you get the idea)
When someone clicks that, it opens it up in a Gnutella client. It begins downloading from that source, and searching for the same file on the Gnutella network. Through the entire life of the download, it will continue to add sources. You could then be downloading from over 30 people at once, gaining speeds of up to 10MBPS+.
Oh, the power of Gnutella. Can KazAa (FastTrack) do that?! (Well, it can, kind of
Oh, how do you know if that's the correct file? Hashing. Gnutella servents are implamenting hashing now, where each file has it's own hash. So when searching for files, they can swarm you downloads. You are GUARANTEED that all the sources your downloading from are in fact the same file, because they have the same hash (SHa1). That's whats getting the RIAA so scared
Also new on the scene (well, new as in new popularity) is Bitzi. Bitzi catologs hashs (bitprints). You can search through their database, and find files with hashes. Click the hashes, and you can download a file. Each file on bitzi has a "Bitzi Ticket" where you can rate the file. You can mark it "Invalid/Misleading" which means it is not the file you want. You can mark them if they contain virus's too. I can almost hear the sweat dripping from the RIAA Lawyers foreheads.
Want to see the future of Gnutella? Check out Shareaza (WINE Compatable).
Supports all of what I discussed in this post.
Make money with advertising? PLEASE. How much money does AOL think they're making with their boxed little AIM adverts? Um, probably nothing.
Their AOL adverts on AIM is advertising at it's worst. (as in results)
What could they be getting? 0.01 CPM? Well, they're probably getting more... but the people paying high prices for those adverts are getting ripped off.
GNUTELLA URL:m ozilla-win32-1.1b-installer.exe/ Q A5&dn=mozilla-win32-1.1b-installer.exe
5 PS4QA5.SPSSPXIBDT3665WC4CVDWULYHD6JPSGBOOEYAZI
... uh, oh.. somebody doesn't have a MAGNET or GNUTELLA supported Gnutella client? Look's like somebody needs Shareaza ;)
gnutella://sha1:WS6E5RWNP2AYFTTE5ZJI2QB675PS4QA5/
OR MAGNET:
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:WS6E5RWNP2AYFTTE5ZJI2QB675PS4
VIEW BITZI TICKET:
http://bitzi.com/lookup/WS6E5RWNP2AYFTTE5ZJI2QB67