Wanted: Omemo beta testers
p2pnet.net news:- Manolito is a genuinely independent and decentralised p2p network that’s managed to survive unsullied by the corporate music industry.
Created by Pablo Soto (below) of Blubster fame, it’s mp3 only – no movies, no videos, only music. And that’s why it’s so popular with people who want to keep their searches for sounds simple and uncluttered.
Then comes Soto’s Piolet. It’s based on the MP2P protocol with nods to both Gnutella v0.4 and the UDP protocol.
Both applications are now firmly in place and if you’re wondering why you haven’t heard anything from Soto lately, here’s why: he’s been working on Omemo, “the natural next step in P2P evolution,” as he described it to p2pnet, adding:
“Resource sharing is in the heart of the internet, it was the foundation of content sharing. And Omemo creates this new wave of P2P 2.0.”
From the site, “Conceptually, Omemo is a virtual storage device. The Omemo software creates a P2P network that brings together the available free space on the hard drive donated by each user, to create a unique and immense virtually limitless drive.
“The resulting storage unit will appear accessible in each user´s system as if it were a the local hard drive, a CD or a pen drive, with access speeds higher than those of an FTP server.
“Working anonymously, the drive enables users to add and organize their own content, which will form part of a live multimedia library managed by the users themselves.”
Omemo is almost ready to roll and if you’re interested in becoming a beta tester, head over to the sign-up area.
Stay tuned.
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May 19th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Two points:
a) Omeno looks like non-free software to me, which means, it isn’t produced under a free license. => Hands away. Just remember the fate of Bearshare.
b) Gnutella 0.4 is horribly outdated, and if MP2P is based on the ideas in Gnutella 0.4 (instead of the _much_ more efficient Gnutella 0.6), then it is far less advanced than it states.
infos: http://gnufu.net – Gnutella for Users
- Arne Babenhauserheide ( http://draketo.de )
May 19th, 2007 at 7:58 am
a) You say that “it isn’t produced under a free license”, because “it looks like non free software”. I’d wait until it is released to actually read the license before criticizing it.
b) MP2P, like gnutella 0.6, is based on gnutella 0.4. I guess the reason is that it was developed before gnutella 0.6 existed.
June 5th, 2007 at 2:16 am
a) If it’s free software, then they must give beta-testers the sourcecode, so we’ll quickly see, if it is free. Besides: Free license means BSD, MIT (or similar) or best: GPL (GNU Public License).
To recognize free software I don’t need to read the license (in most cases). It’s enough to just look which license is being used.
b) That is was developed before Gnutella switched to 0.6 wasn’t apparent to me. It means, that MP2P needs to be at least 4 years old, because that’s when Gnutella 0.4 was replaced.