> We propose an extension to the Gaim chat client that lets users do gnutella-style search & download filesharing, where search requests propagate out to trusted buddies, buddies of buddies, etc. This approach has serveral advantages. First, people will be more altruistic sharing with friends and won't be as worried about RIAA/MPAA lawsuits. At the same time, because they can share with friends-of-friends, and friends-of-friends-of-friends, they'll often be searching a very huge library. This software will be just as simple as an IM client, and it will be easy for people to invite friends (so it spreads virally). No other piece of filesharing software is this well positioned to become hugely popular with the average, not-so-knowledgeable, Windows user. As a bonus, it will convert many users to using the open-source and ad-free client Gaim--a good thing in itself. The immediate goal is creating a working version that is extremely simple but very modular and easy to modify or expand upon.
http://downhillbattle.org/labs/gaim_filesharing_plugin/
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/11/15/0124222.shtml?tid=158&tid=95&tid=8
America's best answer to the lawsuit-rats? Compared to WinNY and Share, this seems like a diametral approach. Any ideas how this system could still be used by lawsuit-rats to track down copyright-infringers?
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I hope they don't plan to build this on top of the AIM filesharing protocol, because it's utter shit.
>I hope they don't plan to build this on top of the AIM filesharing protocol, because it's utter shit.
Well, at least the AIM filesharing works...
I have a friend, I can receive from him thru ICQ but uploading always fails - I never understood why. So I upload to him thru AIM. We don't exchange big files tho, just stuff like home pictures and the like. What is wrong with the AIM filesystem?
What is stopping the MPAA, RIAA and BSA from putting in packet sniffers?
Mmm... Not anonymous enough. I use my IM nicks for IM chat; with this, anyone who could see files on my machine could also easily find my contact information. Unless I set up a fake account just to do filesharing, and that'd probably be more trouble than it's worth -- and defeat the "friends" concept too. I think I prefer just being a random user via Xfactor.
You can't upload to a friend who has a firewall not configured for AIM file transfers.
It may not be his fault. His ISP could be using NAT on it's customers, thus saving money for IP registrations.
ISP's do that? That doesnt make sense to me at all.
Could also be ingress filtering. With all the worms and backdoors floating around the internet, a lot of ISPs are taking a more proactive approach.
Now if only they'd finally get around to egress filtering, we could finally put the DDoS dog to rest.