| From: | James Hunter |
| Date: | 30 Oct 2000 at 16:11:00 |
| Subject: | RE: AMIGEN: Ami-Napster |
For those of you interested a free and open-source file sharing protocol has
been in use for some time, its defeats the "Central user storage" problem of
Napster. Due to its open sourced platform no-one actually owns it and the
industry doesn`t want to sue individual users for using protocol..
The only problem is you will find adverts, etc.. on it - but most good
clients will filter them out.. visit..
please hit http://www.gnutella.co.uk for more information on program,
protocol and look at the client called "ToadNode" there a good Flash
animation of the protocol in action..
Anyone know if an Amiga OS version is being made or planned??
James Hunter
http://www.gamesbasic.com
Coding the scene since '89
> -----Original Message-----
> From: g'o'tz ohnesorge [mailto:gohnesorge@lh-computertechnik.de]
> Sent: 30 October 2000 16:30
> To: general@amiga.com
> Subject: Re: AMIGEN: Ami-Napster
>
>
> Colin Wenzel wrote:
>
> > I thought they closed Napster down ???
> >
> > Now I hear there is an Amiga-Napster client program...
> >
> > Anyone got the whole story..?
>
> Well, first of all, like the internet, Napster is more than a small
> company running a server.
>
> It's a philosophy: I have music files on my harddisk, others
> have, too,
> so we should share. We're also all on a speedy network, so we
> can easily
> use that.
>
> Now while we could do it by hand, or using plain old FTP
> servers, why not
> jsut have a little search engine and clients that register my
> files to a
> central server, and give me a list of other servers that have
> any other
> song I might want to listen to, and then the client would
> just download
> the music from there to me at no further effort.
>
> The original Napster company then made money with ad banners in their
> software (I assume; lacking interest in music, I never tried
> - you just
> can't download silence, yet).
>
> Soon The Music Industry, hated by their employees as much as their
> customers and everybody else, found foul with the scheme, in that they
> fear it might allow people to get music without paying ransom to The
> Industry.
>
> Being utterly American, they went on as usual, trying to sue
> the hell out
> of Napster.
>
> After a trial that should have been on television, and will probably
> become a lengthy movie once Spielberg or Coppola figure out what's
> happening, a judge decided that Napster lends out ships to evil old
> swashbuckler school kids and that this is against the law and that
> Napster has to stop it immediately and thanked The Industry for their
> financial contribution (oops I didn't say that).
>
> But being a legal system, that was never near the end of it. Napster
> rejected the motion on grounds that it'd be bollocks and both parties
> should have another round of making lawyers rich. So Napster
> continues to
> operate, though under some limitations like trying to ban
> users that all
> too obviously offer Metallica CDs or whatever, while trying
> to barter out
> a deal with The Industry in case the next court trial should
> end as bad
> as the prior one and fail to generate prosperous book and
> movie rights.
>
> Now since I can't follow any court affait for longer that ten
> seconds of
> its movie trailer, let's look at the rest of the world. Remember my
> previous line that it's not just a company, but a philosophy of doing
> things once you're connected to a net. You can't stop a
> philosophy, be it
> with courts or bullets.
>
> The kidz figgured out that their one and only Napster might
> go away, so
> they should better have a set of spare ones. Thought and done, they
> hacked the protocol of the original Napster server, and soon
> a bunch of
> other, compatible ones sprung up, on private machines around
> the globe.
>
> Of course the usefulness of such servers depends a bit on how
> many people
> offer stuff on them, so as to cut the confusion where there
> might be yet
> another obscure Napster clone server, a search tool for these was
> created, called Napigator.
>
> And since MP3 files aren't the only thing worth sharing,
> someone came up
> with Wrapster, a proggie which makes all other file types just appear
> like MP3s so you can trade them across the Napster infrastructure.
>
> And so on.
>
> You can find more about Napster and related stuff with a
> focus on music
> at http://www.zeropaid.com , and the broader issue of advanced
> information sharing systems from a technical and free speech point of
> view at http://www.infoanarchy.org .
>
> It's the way things are going. A new mutation of the net as
> we knew it.
>
> Of course, The Industry is running amok over it.
>
> Law suits, and calls for filtering and blocking systems, and
> actual legal
> effort like UCITA, DMCA, RPS, RIP, and what not are being pushed with
> impunity, designed to protect content distribution monopolies of times
> that used to be, and eating away like wildfires at once granted
> constitutional and human freedom rights of the individual.
>
> Over the next couple of years, the internet will see its civil war.
>
>