Wish the original Napster source code could be displayed but I doubt it will happen.

Want a hand in replacing it? Might be able to help. I still have the original webpage in it’s original form as well as older forms too. Don’t have the technical info but I do have most of the documents, release 0.44 of the source code and that’s about it.

What Wayne Facer did may have been, to him, in good intentions. However, as an important piece of peer2peer history, I believe that OpenNap in its original form needs to be preserved. Without preservation, it becomes lost to all.

Since Facer had deleted the project outright, I re-registered it and have been trying to restore what I can piecemeal. Unfortunately, there is a plethora of information that may very well be lost for good, thanks to him.

I stopped using it because it was outdated and the threats of legal action were looming. If people would get together and work on updating these old projects we wouldn’t have any problems. Do you see anybody complaining about old linux code or C code not being used? Do you see people complaining about Windows 2 when Windows 7 is out the door?

I’m not saying it was wrong, it was. I was able to find the old technical info out there and maybe someone else will put it on a new web page.

If Wayne Facer was so intent on developing an open source Napster server using OpenNap as its base, he could have very well done so by creating his own project and calling it something other than OpenNap. When drscholl went dormant and the community shrunk to what is left, the project itself became more of a museum exhibit than an actual feasible project. Wayne Facer should have acknowledged this and left well enough alone. I’ll give you a B for effort and an F for failure to acknowledge any historic significance of leaving the original work intact.

I was able to find the technical specs on it so it’s not gone for good. The old page is gone but alteast it still lives and never will die.

BTW: I wouldn’t have advertised that there are over 20,000 users. The RIAA could be watching

Besides, there are still OpenNap servers around with more than 20000 users, so it’s still being used even if drscholl abandoned the project. That’s the beauty of free software, server admins keep playing with it, making changes when they think it’s necessary.

Finally, as for the last laugh the so called “developer” or “owner” was talking about, Archive.org has a copy of the tech doc. Who’s laughing now?

Sending notices to people is dangerous.

Also heard about the RIAA shutting down an entire town because one person downloaded a movie. What is going on here?

Saw an archive of the original opennap page. I do agree that it needed an update but if nobody is using it, then why bother. I use other program like Limewire or Bittorrents myself.

BTW: I wanted to get both points of view and figured someone needed to say something positive about this.

Now, what about leaving the project site as you found it before leaving and doing your stuff elsewhere? Doing the contrary would only prove that you never respected the original OpenNap and never intended to do something for the community to begin with. I’m sure you’ll delete everything, but if you don’t I’d happily apologize here.