| EarthStation 5 (also known as ES5 or ESV) wanted to be known for its unrivalled level of anonymity and the organization’s brutal honesty for saying that the software has been made for users to break copyright law. After what was perhaps the worst public relations campaign ever, ESV instead became known for spamming and dishonesty. Trouble between peer to peer portals and ESV ensued. |
To solve the situation, which was quickly becoming out of hand, the top P2P portals decided to go nuclear on ESV. Since then, ESV has remained an outcast from the P2P community.
It needs to be remembered that there is more to a program than arguments between forums and the developers’ relationship with the community. There is the program itself.
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