eXeem returns: without Cydoor
p2pnet.net News:- eXeem version 0.25 beta is out and it`s completly [sic] ADWARE free, meaning you will not get any additional 3rd party software installed on your computer, is the promise.
For `3rd party software` read Cydoor which says, “We provide strategic direct response advertising for our customers that achieve outstanding results and a unique network of properties with general and contextually targeted advertising opportunities.”
Behind eXeem are the people who once ruled SuprNova which reigned supreme as the largest BitTorrent hub. The movie industry cartel shut it down and not long after, eXeem appeared, firing up a Netwide storm because it was loaded with Cydoor.
A while back Cydoor wanted to advertise in p2pnet, asking about, “purchasing your available advertising inventory” both “domestic and international”. By “adding your site to our buying properties you will join washingtontimes.com, mamma.com, Pal talk, SearchForit.com, and dozens of other respected Internet destinations,” it said.
We pointed out that p2pnet had been “highly critical of Cydoor, with special reference to the fairly recent eXeem debacle”. No problem. But when we said we wanted to see a specific example of what the company had in mind, that was all she wrote.
Anyway, the reaction to the news that eXeem came with Cydoor was enough to eventually force it to back away from the connection and now, “The only ads in the program are html based ads, the kind you see on websites,” says eXeem, adding that its app, “eliminates the need for trackers as nodes in the program will be taking their role”. It also, “features easy publication of files to the network as well as a rating and comments system”.
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See:-
Cydoor – The eXeem thread, p2pnet, Jaunary 24, 2005
shut it down – Hollywood nails SuprNova, p2pnet, December 15, 2004
July 9th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
that’s ok. no-one is gonna use it anyway.
but if a few naive ones straggle in, here’s a good tip:
you can block html ads with ad shield, a free program – google it. it gives you right-click menus to block all html ads.
it worked very well on the early versions of grokster and kazaa that had html ad windows.
you should also be able to block ads using the norton internet security trash can for ads.
either way, exeem is a lost cause. don’t even bother with it.
July 9th, 2005 at 4:40 pm
Soooo, this time… is there gonna be that horrible war over who’s eXeem was the real eXeem?
July 10th, 2005 at 1:21 am
Too little too late. Exeem had their chance when it had the unique selling point of being a (mostly) trackerless bittorrent, but now the official bittorrent (and many third party clients) support true trackerless operation with the well proven Kademelia protocol, Exeem is dead in the water.