New DIrections in File Sharing

[phalkon30]

This was posted as "news", I don't feel its news at all, but that it would make for good discussion

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posted by DJ Zany on March 13, 2003 @ 04:45pm


The current period has been dubbed the Second Golden Age of Filesharing, it seems that nothing can stop the various P2P applications that share the market, and the new ones arriving.

I am interested in the future directions.

What we have now is several main apps (Kazzaa, eDonkey/eMule etc, various Gnutella clients) all competing with all file type. Sure some are better than others at certain file types, yet only Piolet and Soulseek really specialise. Audiogalaxy (and Napster) had huge success with this single format focus.

I was looking for new ringtones for my phone the other day, and thinking why can't there be a netowrk for ringtones. I am sure that there are many tones out there, yet the Midi files may also be not phone compatible. Why can't we have a specific application or network for this?

Also since the removal of Audio covers from cdcovers.cc, these have been harder to find. Sure they are out there, but searching for all images is casting the net a bit wide. Why can't we have a network for these.

DC is a perfect tool for setting up these specific networks (much like the uber MP3 network), however it is still centralised. Decentralised must be the long term way forward. Also, it would be easier to use a single client to connect to these multiple networks, rather than have a client for each.

I can see a day when I use my new P2P client to connect to the CD Covers network, the ring tones network, as well as the MP3 and movie networks. It may all be a single network for protocol performance reasons, but to me it would appear differentiated so I can easily tell that a file is a ring tone or a cd cover.

What are your visions for the future?

[Nothingface5384]

whao i just found it hehe ;-)

to see previos ocmments on da subject go here http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/03132003f.php

[phalkon30]

Yeah, I just deleted it from the mainpage, I didn't think it would keep the news item, but thanks for finding it anyway

[zaphodiv]

> I can see a day when I use my new P2P client to connect to the CD Covers network, the ring tones >network, as well as the MP3 and movie networks. It may all be a single network for protocol >performance reasons, but to me it would appear differentiated so I can easily tell that a file is a >ring tone or a cd cover.

This could be done now, just make a sharereactor style website with verified hashlinks of the
content you wish to promote. It could be built on top of edonkey/emule, winmx, kazaa or shareazza.
You could make a big collection of hashlinks then ask one of the existing verifed file sites if they would like to add a new section. Advertise the site in the filenames, beg people to submit files,
have a forum and try to get a load of people doing releases.

Personally I'm surprised that filehash sites havn't received legal action. If I was to
run one, I'd host it in China and it would allways say "This is a list of files that we have
been told exist somewhere in the world, the files are subject to copyright in some countrys,
we are just saying they exist somewhere, we won't tell you have to obtain them"
as opposed to "Click here to download".

[overdo]

Also since the removal of Audio covers from cdcovers.cc, these have been harder to find. Sure they are out there, but searching for all images is casting the net a bit wide. Why can't we have a network for these.

there is a gd website 4 these. Imgshare (http://213.208.92.130/imgshare/index.aspx)

my visions of the p2p world r uncertain. regardless of how many companies get sued, the only way to stop p2p is at the ISP level. no level of copy protection, DRM etc is ever going to manage to stop p2p.

[linusaurus]

I think we will soon be in a world where even at the ISP level filesharing can't be stopped. The next technology to arise and be put to the front lines will be freenet or some similar app that does all this filesharing ananomously. And after that, people will start using wireless networks to fileshare. Computers will link to eachothers computers without an ISP. And then the war is over, we won.

[MusikBeatz23]

Originally posted by linusaurus
I think we will soon be in a world where even at the ISP level filesharing can't be stopped. The next technology to arise and be put to the front lines will be freenet or some similar app that does all this filesharing ananomously. And after that, people will start using wireless networks to fileshare. Computers will link to eachothers computers without an ISP. And then the war is over, we won. I personally think the war will never be over, we might be able to have the higher hand but it will never end...

[wonderboy2005]

Originally posted by MusikBeatz23
I personally think the war will never be over, we might be able to have the higher hand but it will never end...

i dont know about that. maybe they (the industries that are attemting to put an end to P2P) wont 'officially' give up, and maybe they will continue with there shit for scare tactics, but in my opinion, the battle is already won. the war will soon follow.