The Finer Points of P2P Design

After reviewing all the newest peer to peer program on the market today I was shocked that these programs even made it to the public. First, more bugs then the army and shoot at! If I designed a program for a client that ran like these I would be fired quicker then a female striper at a gay bar! Second, lack of options. No one like a program that they can customize, it give the program the personal touch and feel, much like your girlfriend or boyfriend! Thrid, lack of information, everyone likes to know that the heck the program is doing! For all you know it is telling the MIB what you doing in hopes of finding what plnet your from! Forth, SPYWARE!! For the love of ***, are these people defunct in the head!! Why would someone who is downloading illegal files want someone tracking what they are doing. MAKES NO SENSE! Fifth, poor UI (user interface) design and window dressing. Take SongSpy for example, are you trying to download music or play a “hack in to NASA” game! Or programs like File Naigator, hmmm, sorry coulden’t find window to make fun of it! Pile on poor servers, logging, users who love rename file to make them sound like novels and no real support for private servers and the lack of elite, (The Newsgroups and IRC’s servers and hosters) and we can say beyond a doubt, “Ahhh, Huston we have a problem!!” Users who use these “P2P” programs, well, lets get somthing stright, I have yet to see a true Peer to Peer program! KaZaA came close and deserve credit, with their search and download system, which is all peer based. But almost every other program uses servers as a middle man, unless a server is a peer, then my years of training are out the damn window! Users who are subjected to endless useage agreements, threats of lawysits and inpending doom the users fail to realize that they can demand better software! With millions upon millions of file sharing users a movemnt of 10% of these people would cause a panic in the management of these programs from the half-way house. Well, thats my opinon how about yours! Shawn Jackson
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