Half Topical-- File sharing

[Jonathan Finger]

Another great P2P program is Kazaa.  Kazaa and Morpheus have been the
two most popular so far (since Napster).  They were both based on the
same technology, but Morpheus recently changed to a "Gnutella" based
infrastructure which was a huge mistake.  Anyway, without getting into
the boring stuff, Kazaa works uniquely in that it allows you to download
things from multiple users, increasing your download speed, without
taxing their upload speed (so even dialup users can contribute to the
network).  Basically the Kazaa network digitally marks files.  This
means that if I search for "PTG.txt" and 100 other people have the exact
same file, I can download a small piece from each of them.  If each of
the 100 people is uploading a chunk of it to me @ 1k, then I receive it
at 100k/s.  

Hope that didn't bore anyone to death :)  

Anyway, Winmx is great, Kazaa (in my opinion) is a bit better.  I have
used both though, and either one would be well suited to your purposes.
The one advantage I would give Kazaa is that it's a bigger network.
Depending on the type of file you're looking for, a bigger network means
better results.

Anyway,

Good luck!

Jonathan Finger RPT.



-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Goodale
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:23 PM
To: Pianotech
Subject: Re: Half Topical-- File sharing

WinMX is a great PTP network, I've been using it for quite some time
now.
Beware- almost all PTP networks out there sneak in spyware and pop-up
cookies, even if you select "no" that you don't want them when
installing
it.  WinMX does not, (still have to select "no" but in their case "no"
really means "no").  It works great and simple to use.  You can share
any
kind of files (mp3, ,jpg, midi, graphics, video, text, programs, etc.).
For
those of you who missed out on the Napster phenomenon this is actually
better.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV


>
> I use DC and also enjoy winmx. Try it--freeware winmx.com (and
Canadian
> too!) *grin*



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