Of ‘dumbed down apps’
p2p news / p2pnet:- Under our eDonkey joins Sharman Networks post, carpefile comments: “This to me is actually a silver lining. As more of the commercial apps go the pay to peer route, more and more users will move to opensource, adware free, spyware free, apps that provide better protections.
“Maybe some of the fine apps developed in opensource that have starved for lack of users will finally take off.
“By getting rid of the more dumbed down apps, users will be forced to move to apps with a longer learning curve.
“This could lead to a smarter p2p community all around.”
Absolutely.
It’ll take a while but eventually, on the one hand we’ll have:
A) that small coterie of sterile, muscle-bound and extremely venal enterprises run by DRM dinosaurs who’ll continue to savage each other as they compete for a share in a tiny market dominated by iTunes, which isn’t really a music ‘service’ at all. Rather, it’s a self-funding promo vehicle for iPod;
and, on the other,
B) The vast, thriving and expanding world of real online music where millions upon millions of people are discovering ‘Free’ which, as has been frequently emphasised, means Free as in Free Speech, Free Market, Free Society, Free Culture, Free Software and Freedom —— not "free lunch", "free beer", or freeloading.
But sadly, for the moment, innocent men, women and children are still being relentlessly persecuted in the literal sense of the word while the DRM dinosaurs currently running the music and other industries try to bludgeon people into buying ‘product’.
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September 21st, 2005 at 1:47 am
Open source p2p apps will eventually dominate. And so they should. They are well coded, peer reviewed and respond to user requirements better than their commercial counterparts.
Emule, Azureus, Shareaza are all good clients providing access to any files you could ever want. I find the advantage with apps like Emule and Azureus, they actually reward uploaders, so it reduces the leecher factor.
Bitcomet is another good torrent client, although it’s not open source.
I don’t actually think the learning curve is that high for these types of apps. I mean for emule, it’s simply a matter of selecting a ed2k server with a high number of users and files (razorback 2.0 is a good one). And connecting to kad. Although emule can be slow at times, the more users that come and share the faster it will be for everyone. If you don’t share you don’t gain reward points. Bittorrent uses a tit for tat system, which effectively does the same thing.
you get a bunch of bad users in a torrent swarm, then the whole swarm will die out as people leave it.
The RIAA/MPAA knows it can’t shut down open source projects, thats why it’s only targeting registered companies. Like the article says, they are actually helping us by moving people onto open source based p2p apps.