What The New Year Brings For P2p!

[Yoda]

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Josh Avedisian 7:40 PM 12/24/03

A tough year for p2p is almost over. 2003 brung lawsuits against p2p users in the summer. But in a way P2P made some accomplishments, from Gnutella2 to Shareaza's Multi-Network connections. This year could of been one of p2p's finest years if it wasnt for the dreaded RIAA. So with the recent ruling against the RIAA that says that they cannot sue p2p users anymore will 2004 be the year p2p makes strides to improvments.

But in a recent article the RIAA stated the fight was not over. So will p2p be faced with more lawsuits in the year 2004? This may be one of the most exciting years for p2p. Like we stated in our recent article what features will be added to p2p in this up coming year?

This could be a great year for p2p, What new programs will be created and what features will be added to them? Will Fasttrack die off this year? Will new users to p2p figure out the dirty secrete of Kazaa? Some information to look forward to in the future a new fasttrack client is in the making from the creators of Ares. The rise of Peeranha is coming soon.

Or will this be a bad year for p2p. The RIAA drops another bomb or keeps to its same plan and sues users one by one. What does the RIAA have instore for p2p this year? We are guessing they will have something in this ongoing battle p2p verus RIAA.

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[DudeAsInCool]

I think the trend will be towards applications like Mute and other types of encryption. And expect to see the commericalization of P2P...coming soon...

[HolyMoly]

I think the trend will be towards applications like Mute and other types of encryption. And expect to see the commericalization of P2P...coming soon...

Isn't Kazaa already commercialized??? Or do you mean the "legal" commercialization of file-sharing? That's the way it should have been done all along.

[DudeAsInCool]

Legal and user friendly.

[HolyMoly]

Legal and user friendly.

It can't come soon enough for me. But, it would require the RIAA to eat a lot of crow on their past practices. The "old" Napster was the answer to their prayers. But, they didn't realize this back in 2000. I hope smarter leadership arises in the future.

[ASUmusicMAN]

I dunno...i'm guessing the year will bring much sharing and dling...i can't wait to litter my hard drive

[HolyMoly]

Slower, too, maybe (grin). Jeez ... I was online today and searches on KLite, Filetopia, iMesh, Shareza, Limewire, and Ares were dead slow .... and Bearshare didn't connect at all. Must have been some new computers under a lot of trees this year, hehe.

[Yoda]

Bearshare? Limewire? iMesh? you got a spyware cleaner right?

[HolyMoly]

Bearshare? Limewire? iMesh?  you got a spyware cleaner right?

I have older versions of Bearshare and Limewire and have used (ahem) methods to clean them. BTW, there is an "iMesh lite" out there:

PC version only