OpenNap P2P file sharing returns …
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The original Napster P2P file sharing service comprised a protocol which let users to move files computer to computer.
Music industry pressure buried it in 2001. But soon after, it was disinterred as a pale facsimile of its former self and is today owned by Best Buy which, after spending $121 million to buy what amounts to little more than a name, is determined to become the first concern to actually make money out of the file sharing app that started it all.
But it’s too late for Napster to become anything more than just another overpriced, understocked download ’service’.
Meanwhile, “OpenNap is a peer-to-peer service server,” explains the Wikipedia.
“It was created as an open source Napster server, extending the Napster protocol to allow sharing of any media type, and adds the ability to link servers together,” it says, going on OpenNap suffered the same fate as Napster, closing shop after being threatened by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA.
It’s now being brought back to life as OpenNap 2.0 and is slated to start development next year.
But only if it satisfies the RIAA.
“We feel that it was time to allow sharing but have it setup so that copyrights were protected,” say the developers on the OpenNap revival site. ”
The current release is under development, says the team going on »»»
We have plans to release this protocol in 2010. Right now we’re still developing certain aspects of the project.
OpenNap is being developed for the following Operating Systems:
- POSIX systems: Linux, MAC OSX, UNIX, OpenSolari
Napster Clients
As of 2009, all clones using the original OpenNap protocol have been removed and discontinued. We’re not supporting the old protocol due to violations of the RIAA. Any attempt to download the old protocol will result as being non-supported.
We encourage development of new generation clients to use this protocol and to improve upon the work done here.
Downloads
Original downloads of the OpenNap protcol have been removed and destroyed to comply with the RIAA legal challenge. No attempt will be made to use the original code.
And Oh Yes – “We will if needed shut down this project if it doesn’t satisfy the RIAA requirements.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
$121 million – Best Buy — new Napster owner, September 15, 2008
November, 2009
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November 4th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Let’s not forget that we’re dealing with open-source software here. Anybody can get the source code, modify it, and distribute it, making the OpenNap ‘project’ impossible to “shut down” – as source code can live on forever. (The original Napster server software was never released to the public)
OpenNap is only one of several open-source server softwares compatible with the original Napster file sharing protocol. Although OpenNap was the first and most famous Napster clone (and its name has often been used generically), SlavaNap has been probably the most popular Napster-protocol server software for several years.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
The OpenNap protocol was never shut down, contrary to what the “revival” states. Some OpenNap/SlavaNap servers still exist, look for them on http://gotnap.com
I still connect to a certain OpenNap server to speak to all my oldtime online friends (known for 10+ years to this day).
This “revival” looks to be some kind of joke, its as if some idiot got access to the original OpenNap sourceforge account somehow.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Do these developers understand English?
Most of the uses of the word “protocol” are incorrect, what they seem to mean is “software”
If the Opennap “protocol” were really abandoned, as indicated, on the server side, all of the existing clients (Lopster, WinMX, Xnap, etc) would fail to work because this would break compatibility.
Due to the Napster protocol being well established (and essentially set in stone) the only improvements possible in the software would be in areas such as ease-of-use, stability and resource efficiency. The end-user connecting to an opennap server would not experience any difference.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Looks like utter bullshit to me, especially the removal of former packages. Anyway, there are plenty of copies on ftp servers all around the world, and there’s still an updated fork of OpenNap at http://opennap-ng.sourceforge.net/
November 5th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Sounds like a lot of work for something that nobody is going to use…
November 5th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Here they say “Original downloads of the OpenNap protcol have been removed and destroyed to comply with the RIAA legal challenge. No attempt will be made to use the original code.” Yet on the revamped page at opennap.sourceforge.net, they say “We also wish to acknowledge the work of DrScholl. He was the original programmer and developer of the original OpenNap. Without this work we couldn’t proceed on a new version.” Not using the original code?
Be sure to go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennap/ and leave a nice, cheesy honest review!
November 5th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Opennap 0.44 still available at these locations:
http://216.40.32.32/preview/52219
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/opennap-0.44p0.tgz.126150.0.0.html
http://www.sourcefiles.org/System/Servers/opennap-0.44.tar.gz
http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/vax/opennap-0.44p0.tgz-long.html
I’m sure theres several more, use google
November 5th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I have archived copies of opennap software and src’s from 3 years ago when I decided no “midnight bureaucrat” was going to steal anything from me in terms of big brother style historical reworkings and disappearing software.
This has more the look of a hijacked page than any real substance to it it , the grammar is poor and as for the protocol if they are changing it then its not opennap its a cheap knock off, I know hundreds of opennap users and they are probably lauging at this lame attempt to hijack the name of the network they use by some group of riaa suck-ups.
For those who don’t understand what open nap is its whats called a centralised network because all the indexing is done by a single users machine and thus such networks have fallen out of favour after a few folks where sued for being the server operator some years ago, its still alive as a semi-underground network and using the slavanap software folk have been able to lock their servers together to create a bigger network, however in legal terms they are a liability as the server operator is directly facilitating infringement and a court can be shown he is able to see who s downloading what and when so if there is some effort to improve that aspect I,m all for it but then be sure we shouldn’t call it opennap and nor should it be centralised in the current fashion.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:00 am
First I wish to address that we are aware of problems on the page. There are problems yes. Is there going to be a rewrite, yes.
We have not hijacked the domain. We are members of sourceforge and wanted to do something about an application which was not updated in a long time. There are going to be problems along the way.
If there are still systems using it then we want to know about it so that we can post it on our page. We also want to contribute updates for those programs using it. Over the weekend we have made some changes which may appease some of you. While we recognize that we cannot appease everyone, we will do what we can to make sure that everyone knows our real intent.
In the next few weeks we will be releasing updated versions of the OpenNap program. Beginning with version 0.44.1 which we took apart and cleaned it up. We made it more compatible with today’s compilers and made it a bit faster. We have no plans right now to include anything new until we start development on version 0.50. For reference purposes we have 0.44 still on the code and have restored the original link.
There’s also complaints that we didn’t recognize DRScholls work. We did and have such have made it clear that his name must be associated with any updates as well as documentation.
We will also merge it with OpenNap NG. We don’t know if it’s still being updated but if it is we can and will use it. From there we will proceed with the updates.
All of us take this project seriously. This is not a “LAME JOKE” to use this name and have it mean something else. We want to do this and make it work for everyone. If you wish to help out on this project then help out.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Quote:
“If you wish to help out on this project then help out.”
which way did you come in?
Quote:
“This is not a “LAME JOKE””
who are you trying to kid?
It compiles just fine, nobody has had trouble compiling it but you. Packages are back now, huh? Can’t keep an opensource project opensource by closing it.
The folks still using Opennap and Opennap-NG servers will continue to use what they already have and will probably never even be aware of how you are making us that are laugh hysterically at you
November 12th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Sorry you feel that way. As of November 26, OpenNap will be shut down. You win but in a way we all lose. I’ve taken the liberty of removing all technical information from the page as well as the source code. While the code is still circulating out there, the original page housing it will be taken down. Sorry you think it was a joke but then again, I guess we have the last laugh afterall.
November 13th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Not as hard as all of us are laughing at $121 million being wasted on a rotten carcass that won’t ever go anywhere!
Nobody still uses the server software project that you more or less ruined anyway. There is barely 2000 folks left using the Opennap protocol, and the majority of them are in private communities that you will never find, and they’re using server software that will never give someone like you access to the project. So when you say WE, do you have a mouse in your pocket??
November 14th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
It’s pretty sad that some random idiot would come in, take over the project page, attempt to do something stupid with it, then shut down the page. The net effect is the original project page is gone. Honestly I doubt that many folks still run the original code but it was a nice piece of history there and now it’s gone. Wayne Facer sucks…. As mentioned there are original copies on mirrors etc out there, and I still have copies of the original and the latest Opennap NG code (not the reverted trash on opennap-ng.sf.net). We don’t have it in SVN anymore, but I still have a tarball and anyone is welcome to it.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I only have one question. Going through these archives now I’ve noticed that nobody updated the program since 2001. Yet there have been alot of fixes but no releases. We also saw the fork OpenNap-NG which according to its webpage hasn’t been updated since 2005. So why is everyone complaining about a program which hasn’t been updated since 2001? I think if the project owner wanted to take it down, they had the right to do so. Even worse is when the original author abandoned the page and couldn’t be contacted. The effort was noble yes, stupid, no.
Come on people, where were you when nobody updated it? Granted there are other better sites out there. Maybe the new author wants to take it down and start on something new. It’s their right to do so. I commend the new author on doing so. Taking something and rewriting it is a great challenge.
If you abandoned something and someone else wanted it would you stand in the way? It works both ways you know