p2pnet - rss feed: WinMX goes offline
p2p news / p2pnet:- “Within the last several hours, neither myself nor Smitty have been able to connect to the WPN. It seems that www.winmx.com has dropped off the radar. …it also seems that www.frontcode.com has been taken down as well.”
So says HookedOnFonix in a post on the Vladd44.com WinMX Forum. But, exactly, is happening? At this point, no one seems to know.
However, WinMX was one of the recipients of the recent RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) Cease & Desist letters to seven US p2 file sharing application companies ordering them to, “immediately cease and desist from enabling and inducing the infringement of RIAA member sound recordings".
Meanwhile, "Interestingly enough, if one conducts a DNS whois for ‘WinMX.com’, the result directs owner ship to a ‘WinMX Technology Associates’ - not FrontCode Technologies as it has in the past," says Slyck. "Even more interesting is the geographical relocation from Toronto, Canada to Port Villa, Vanuatu. Many will remember that Sharman Networks pulled a similar stunt to avoid prosecution in the Netherlands and to capitalize on ‘tax efficiencies.’
"FrontCode.com is still registered in Canada. Kevin Hearn, who is usually readily available for comment with Slyck.com, has not responded to inquiries for several weeks."
(Thanks, DaBlade)
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UPDATE: From bogusbob: "We are still alive some supernodes are still connected and we will stay til the bitter end we can not let big biz AKA RIAA to run us out like this we need to stand up and tell them where to go 2 million ppl use WINMX thats a force to be not taken lightly… one pissed off HOST of a caht room thats not going to lie down an die everyone connect to what rooms are still open and keep them alive her is a room
"Canadians 4 ever 420_C11CB4404CF0 - use this copy an paste in winmx connect keep the FAITH"
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
- Mohandas Gandhi
See:-
Cease & Desist - RIAA attacks p2p companies, September 15, 2005
Slyck - WinMX PNP Network Mysteriously Ends Operations, September 21, 2005
September 21st, 2005 at 3:12 pm
We are still alive some supernodes are still connected and we will stay til the bitter end we can not let big biz AKA RIAA to run us out like this we need to stand up and tell them where to go 2 million ppl use WINMX thats a force to be not taken lightly… one pissed off HOST of a caht room thats not going to lie down an die everyone connect to what rooms are still open and keep them alive her is a room
Canadians 4 ever 420_C11CB4404CF0
use this copy an paste in winmx connect keep the FAITH
bogusbob
September 21st, 2005 at 3:23 pm
i think the iraa should pay p2p for their free advertising of their artist songs and albums we should have the right to a free open nap and u can share news tv shows and so forth as long as u dont charge money for them i dont see why they have shut us down and i will fight along side my brothers and sisters for this right we are not going to take it we will fight corporate and big buisness if it means never buying another cd again
this is a slap in the face to ppl every where
big money pushing ppl around again
artist and mainly their producers lawyers and so on make to much money already
u want to take music off the free market so less fortunate ones cannot partake in the pleasure of music
how sad and pathetic but we will fight we will fight we will fight u and we will win killdez2003 yahoo
September 21st, 2005 at 3:24 pm
not a coward its me killdez fek IRAA in the neck u greedy bastards
September 21st, 2005 at 7:26 pm
i got my old version of winmx from
www.oldapps.com
I think this site is pretty helpful in this situations.
September 21st, 2005 at 9:04 pm
What good is the old version if the cache servers are down?
September 21st, 2005 at 9:14 pm
I haven’t used WinMX for a while, bnut last time I checked it didn’t include any kind of advertising, and nowhere did it try to induce anyone to infringe.
What excactly is the supposed case against it?
September 21st, 2005 at 11:07 pm
www.oldversion.com is another useful site ~ mullin (who’s not logged in)
September 22nd, 2005 at 2:41 am
I’d bet this is a direct result of the Kaza case in OZ last month. Kazza lost and had to pay damages, so now the RIAA types around the world think they have turned the tide and can threaten the networks directly.
As the networks are not out to make money - well, those that don’t hide spyware in their programs - then a threat of legal action from RIAA is probably enough to scare them. After all, we live in a world of litigation, where time and money rule.
September 22nd, 2005 at 4:49 am
yea dude………….
www.oldapps.com
is pretty good site.
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:28 am
Downloading ‘illegally’ GENERATES revenue
I did a mini survey about 2 years ago which proved this and I would like the RIAA and MPAA or any other authority to also exercise this same survey.
Personally, whilst having watched numerous movies that I have not paid to see, many of these I would not have gone to watch at the cinema anyway (no loss of revenue,) and the ones I did enjoy I BOUGHT. In the past 2 years I have PAID FOR over 200 DVDs; almost all because I had chance to preview them first.
Ask these 2 questions and decide whether p2p is good or bad…
1. From the CDs / DVDs you have PAID FOR, how many are because you had the opportunity to preview the material first?
2. From the CDs / DVDs you have ‘PIRATED’, if you were unable to download them, how many would you have actually bought?
My survey showed that a HUGE proportion of peoples’ collections were as a result of downloading and that the pirated material they would have paid for was significantly lower, and in many cases zero.
Conclusion: ‘piracy’ pays, and the RIAA and MPAA etc should be supporting p2p not opposing it!!
Please note: from the top 20 ALL TIME grossing international BOX OFFICE takings (not even DVD sales,) 15 are since we have been able to download efficiently.
Blackwolf (mx militia)
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:30 am
Someone should file a lawsuit because this infringest on first amendmant right of free speech…..I can no longer talk with my friends….at least the chat portion of WinMx should be legal….but facism rules the world now.
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:37 am
i agree 101%
just my 2 cents p2p is just free promotion for the product like a screening
September 22nd, 2005 at 6:40 am
you should still be able to connect via OpenNap. Google search for a good .wsx server list and import into WinMX. I don’t think multipoint downloads function in OpenNap mode, but at least the software’s not completely useless.
September 22nd, 2005 at 7:26 am
whatever works! its p2p network! always online
September 22nd, 2005 at 8:37 am
I had been assuming it was a reaction to Grokster, which was held in a US court.
But either way it’s intimidation pure and simple. WinMX is a hobby application, not some big businesss. The Grokster ruling clearly doesn’t apply. Can;t Frontcode counter-sue for intimidation or something?
I wonder if Bram Cohen got one of those letters?
September 22nd, 2005 at 10:47 am
Captain obvious to the rescue!
You must be the 5000th person to say that. Everyone knows it already…
September 22nd, 2005 at 11:36 am
I can mostly say I am not much of a pirate. I have been a user of winmx for seven years, and I loved mx for the envirorement it created. WinMX Is like a home to thosands of users, A few good things have come off of this client, My friend: made money off selling websapce and webdesign to gaming/movies/music clans all alike, many users were programmers. bettering the winmx communite and devoloping there skills, alot of people met there spouce on winmx, belive it or not.
With all this said winmx was the best it possibly could be, and for closing words i would like to say: Thanks Riaa For Taking My Home Away, Now Yours Shall Be Taken. (Not A Threat)
September 22nd, 2005 at 2:26 pm
The recording industry has been ripping us and the artists off for years selling full albums and cd’s with only one good song and the rest junk. Now that we have discovered a way to recover some of our losses which they have dished out to us over the years, it doesn’t seem to settle too well with them. How does it feel to be on the other end for a change. Even the artists themselves are beginning to produce and distribute their own material, which we think is great. The only one that should be absent from the scene relating to creation, production and distribution is the RIAA. They are greedy, dishonest and deceitful, not only taking advantage of the consumer but the artists and creators as well. There are ways around them and we will continue to keep just one step ahead of them and the only way they can shut us down is for them to stop production and get out of the picture all together on their part. We’ve got you and we are not letting go. Oh we will continue to be be disabled temporarily from time to time, however it is only the RIAA that is and will continue to be disabled permanently.
September 22nd, 2005 at 3:31 pm
Who are you? I’m betting you weren’t the first. So STFU, dip.
September 22nd, 2005 at 9:37 pm
all gd and well u givin us room name but for those of us that carnt connect is no use but thx m8
mx gone down just face it gutted :O(
September 23rd, 2005 at 4:02 am
there is a winmx site that operational http://www.winmxsoftware.com/uk/
September 23rd, 2005 at 6:32 am
I can’t get any of this to work . Tried Find .wsx etc … any more suggestions as to how to get winmx back up and functioning?f
September 23rd, 2005 at 2:16 pm
Get a grip, then get a clue.
The First Amendment only (supposedly) prevents the GOVERNMENT from suppressing speech.
September 23rd, 2005 at 8:51 pm
another scammer/phisher site, isn’t that obvious? maybe it is and you are somehow involved in it?
September 24th, 2005 at 12:25 am
WinMx, WinMx These people will see the Pearly Gates. Love and Sharing are the Keys. I am going to support the Independent Artists and Labels Music and Film. Like I said before,”Boycott the Evil, Greedy music and film Co” = curlybudbeaver308
September 24th, 2005 at 9:20 am
Anybody human can make a mistake. I musta missed the blog that had a new impersonal tell where you live new sign you life to a computer away held over your head and worth mega $ web download site. AA SSEE, Cancel my order but Thank-you (Honest Canadian Heart)for the Good Timerangs.= Canadian Man, The True
September 24th, 2005 at 9:56 am
Oh my god!
www.oldapps.com is so nice…………………..
they helped me out…………..
please click on the ad so WE CAN KEEP GETTING ITS SERVICES!!!!! LOL
September 25th, 2005 at 1:34 am
To get the server.wsx go to www. gotnap.com
Once servers are loaded, click (highlight) on what server(s) you want to connect. Then click on the “Connect” button and you are in business!! - ric
1) Login…create a Login and password.
2) Wait for your confirming email.
3) Click on “Clients Formats”
4) Click on ” servers.wsx”
5) Save it in a folder (your winmx folder is a good spot)
6) Open you Winmx program and click on OpenNap Protocal Networks.
7) Click on “Import.WSX and go to the folder where you downloaded servers.wsx. Double click on it and it will load up the list of servers that are shown on the Serverlist at gotnap.com.
September 25th, 2005 at 1:37 am
To get the server.wsx go to www. gotnap.com
Once servers are loaded, click (highlight) on what server(s) you want to connect. Then click on the “Connect” button and you are in business!! - ric
1) Login…create a Login and password.
2) Wait for your confirming email.
3) Click on “Clients Formats”
4) Click on ” servers.wsx”
5) Save it in a folder (your winmx folder is a good spot)
6) Open you Winmx program and click on OpenNap Protocal Networks.
7) Click on “Import.WSX and go to the folder where you downloaded servers.wsx. Double click on it and it will load up the list of servers that are shown on the Serverlist at gotnap.com.
September 26th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
oldversion does not have 3.53 haha…………
use www.oldapps.com they got that too…………..
September 26th, 2005 at 9:17 pm
PLEASE!!! WINMX IS NOT DOWN!!! IS UP AND RUNNING AS USUAL:
1. download the file:
http://archive.winmxworld.com/Drac/hosts.zip
2. Put the extracted hosts file into this folder, overwriting the old
one - C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
***For Win98/Me users file location is C:\windows
3. Restart WinMX
et voila!!! the primary connection works..
More info:
1. the hosts file is just a list of primary hosts needed for winmx to
enter the p2p.
2. Once winmx.com was shut down.. nobody could enter the winmx p2p
network..
3. however, as you can see just manually entering a priming list of
primary hosts is enough to have it running.
So. WINMX IS STILL ALIVE.
More info:
http://www.winmxworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=410
http://www.vladd44.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=26688#26688
September 29th, 2005 at 2:21 am
those friggin links are dead
September 29th, 2005 at 3:34 am
Thanks! This was easy! Worked for me (not a true expert) no problems. Once again….. Thank You. I hope it works for others too. Good luck to all!
September 30th, 2005 at 3:02 am
why is this i scam site?
September 30th, 2005 at 11:33 am
sorry to sound like homer simpson, but just to clarify is Winmx no longer available free. I had it then couldn’t connect recently and assumed I had a problem my end.
October 4th, 2005 at 1:52 pm
WinMX lives. There is a patch which will allow you to log back in to WinMX. It’s a bit slower than before but there are still many active users. Go here for the patch http://www.vladd44.com/
Greets from Silver Fox
October 9th, 2005 at 1:40 am
i can’t bevile winmx goes offline you think it will back up and running someday i hope so
June 27th, 2006 at 6:52 am
winmx is alive and well, the patch is availabe at www.winmxgroup.com
March 13th, 2007 at 11:41 am
June 29th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
see paidzero.com 6/29/07…king marco has pulled the plug.. as i understand it he is tired of the bullshit.. can’t say i blame him.. but i sure miss winmx.. thx king and i sincerly mean that..
July 4th, 2007 at 6:30 am
WinMX peer cache working very nicely chaps. OpenNap networks are powerful too. OpenNap itself is reporting just under 46,000,000 files and/or 2,800,000GBs. The peer cache does not report it’s own stats unfortunately. It would be interesting to know and compare