P2P The End is Nigh????

Scruff · 22-09-2005 12:58pm #1

/note to mods. Have a look around to see if a similar thread is started somewhere else but without search tis a bit of a bitch.

It seems the RIAA etc have upped the anti and p2p networks seem to be capitulating or closing altogether. Is this the beginning of the end of P2P.
If it is it wont make me go line the music\film industries coffers :mad:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/p2p_crisis/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/p2p_networks_darken/

pickarooney · 22-09-2005 1:06pm

eDonkey has an office? Why? It's not like they're a money-making company or anything, is it?

AARRRGH · 22-09-2005 1:09pm

P2P will always be here. How can it go away? It's such a great and simple tool.

JackKelly · 22-09-2005 1:10pm

they close one, another opens. Its the way. I don't think they will stop it. Also, with bitorrent on the up, it will be very difficult for them

Sleepy · 22-09-2005 1:15pm

They'll never be able to stop it fully, so they'll just try to scaremonger as many people as they can into not developing new clients (never gonna happen) or not using it...

bounty · 22-09-2005 2:02pm

p2p is welfare downloading, im glad it gets all the heat, it deflects attention from news binaries

mp3guy · 22-09-2005 3:35pm

good, i hate p2p

nobodythere · 22-09-2005 4:30pm

Well if by office you mean the boot of the car.

Sure they're money-grabbing corporate bastards, but they kind of have a point. P2P has a file-sharing power beyond music, all you have to do is search for documents on the Gnutella network to know that.

JC 2K3 · 22-09-2005 7:19pm

Propoganda tbh.

Dave! · 22-09-2005 7:23pm

Ahh that sucks, I like WinMx

TerrorFirmer · 22-09-2005 7:27pm

DaveMcG wrote:

Ahh that sucks, I like WinMx

Sad to see it go....loved it too, didn't use it at all really in the last few years but still, the most user friendly imo

Dave! · 22-09-2005 7:42pm

Yeah I agree, it was just basic and to the point, unlike Kazaa and all those flashy kind of ones. More flashiness = more spyware. Rule of thumb

Gandalf23 · 22-09-2005 9:36pm

By "P2P" do you also mean bittorrent?

Because that aint going nowhere...

Mossy Monk · 22-09-2005 9:46pm

P2P is a load of rubbish so what harm if it goes away

Infini · 22-09-2005 10:11pm

Gandalf23 wrote:

By "P2P" do you also mean bittorrent?

Because that aint going nowhere...

Bittorrent is different from the other P2P networks as it is an OPEN SOURCE program. Unlike the others that are full of ad's spyware and spam Bitorrent is free and also has legitimate uses. I wouldnt care much for the others like kazaa as i stopped caring about them really but dont expect bittorrent or P2P to just dissapear. Not to mention the fact that since bittorrent is completely legitimate compared to the others dont expect that P2P program to dissapear so quickly....

Gandalf23 · 22-09-2005 10:36pm

Infini wrote:

Bittorrent is different from the other P2P networks as it is an OPEN SOURCE program. Unlike the others that are full of ad's spyware and spam Bitorrent is free and also has legitimate uses. I wouldnt care much for the others like kazaa as i stopped caring about them really but dont expect bittorrent or P2P to just dissapear. Not to mention the fact that since bittorrent is completely legitimate compared to the others dont expect that P2P program to dissapear so quickly....

Yes I agree with all that.

One small point tho... "Bittorrent" itself is not open source in the accepted sense. I know some bittorrent clients (eg Azureus) are open source, but some others are definately not.

But I agree with your main point.

randomfella · 22-09-2005 10:39pm

Nobody seems to be mentioning dc++. Its just leaps ahead of any p2p program i've used and i've tried them all.

Ajnag · 23-09-2005 3:15am

The web by its nature is all about information transfer, so stoping p2p is like fúcking for virginity.

Jimi-Spandex · 23-09-2005 3:37am

I don't think they could ever completely stop p2p.

What they can do is threaten a significant enough portion of their users so that less people share so that the amount of copyright material available becomes neglible as people are less willing to share. Thus less and less people will be bothered to go near them.

As for torrent, I doubt that will ever die.

cournioni · 23-09-2005 7:20am

Was wondering why WinMX wouldn't connect...

bush · 23-09-2005 12:59pm

Winmx was dirt anyway, d++ and soulseek are the best by far.

TerrorFirmer · 23-09-2005 1:03pm

Ah ****

I just remembered I had 95% of BF1942+Expansions done on Winmx....

not happy

pickarooney · 23-09-2005 2:34pm

I never got the hang of DC++. Might try it again.

yossarin · 23-09-2005 3:01pm

presumably we'll just see an increase in the use of encrypted and private p2p networks.
you and your friends sharing securely, or using more legaly anonymous protocols like freenet.
all this'll do is slow p2p down a bit - searching will become more difficult with somthing like freenet and private darknets tend towards stale content over time.

meh, tbh. press releases from the riaa

dangerman · 23-09-2005 4:08pm

The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it
-John Gilmore.

bush · 23-09-2005 4:09pm

Its not the first to be closed, napster and audio galaxay were closed down but other programs came out.

AARRRGH · 23-09-2005 4:12pm

Hey Kazaa Lite Resurrection has no spyware/flashiness. I use it and it works completely fine...

electric69 · 23-09-2005 4:18pm

The best p2p programmes are imesh, ares and limewire...they all have spyware WITHOUT EXCEPTION but these are the best imo.

PiE · 23-09-2005 4:19pm

Fine apart from the fact that all the files are bogus, viruses or just plain sh*tty quality.

Ajnag · 23-09-2005 5:18pm

Nicotine tbh, Sustanence in both real life and computer form. Not to mention dcc's and torrents and ftp's and......

Lol, Cant wait until the riaa trys to ban internet protocols like ftp and irc. HA!
Arrogant bastards probably will try and all, Go for it, I could do with the entertainment.

Slight bitch about imro while im at it. Every business owner in the country is expected to pay them if a radio is used on the premise's, but havent the radio stations already paid for the rights to play that music in public. Isnt this in essence a form of exploitation and double taxation?

P2P The End is Nigh????

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