LimeWire Brings Darknets To All 126
An anonymous reader writes "LimeWire's new version lets people create private darknets with contacts on any Jabber server (like GMail or LiveJournal). It's different than the recent p2p darknet announcement because it doesn't use onion routing. Sharing with a friend connects directly to that friend. If you're worried about exposing personal information, LW5 doesn't share documents with the p2p network by default."
Funny (Score:3, Insightful)
I thought we had gotten past this whole INVITE PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ business years ago.
Darknet != Freedom (Score:4, Insightful)
Being anonymous is not the same as being free.
To that end, using a darknet is actually reducing how free you are because you're not standing up to the authority or laws you're circumventing. Freedom is being able to do what you want to do without having to hide it.
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Great idea... (Score:1, Insightful)
As for Limewire they are basically forcing the hand of the RIAA/MPAA... With a darknet how can you detect who is sharing what? You can't if you choose your friends wisely.
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, people still fileshare. I like streaming (youtube) but I still want high quality copies on my local machine which I can have access to even when the network/stream service goes down. And filesharing is useful for rare stuff.
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Sounds like a good idea (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
Everything I want to listen to and watch can be streamed now. Thanks to Hulu and Netflix and iTunes I can get the latest movies and just about everything else! The costs for these activities are no longer prohibitive.
Lucky for you, Windows using American. I as a Linux using European can use none of the aforementioned services. Arrrhhh. Off to the bay where they don't geo-judge.
Segmenting the internet back into region specific chunks is probably the worst thing that happened since MySpace.
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
Segmenting the internet back into region specific chunks is probably the worst thing that happened since MySpace.
So you'd rather Hulu and Netflix be sued into bankruptcy for streaming content to places in the world they have no right to do so? Yeah, that'd be a much greater idea...
Re:Great idea... (Score:2, Insightful)
Somewhat unimpressed .. (Score:4, Insightful)
So basically it allows encrypted file transfers between people who are communicating on a chat / IM network? Is it me or is that not exactly a huge innovation [wikipedia.org]?
Re:Great idea... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Darknet != Freedom (Score:2, Insightful)
Freedom is being able to do what you want to do without having to hide it.
Hiding is what precedes [wikipedia.org] freedom [wikipedia.org].
Otherwise premature [wikipedia.org] openness can get you shot down [wikipedia.org].
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
So you'd rather Hulu and Netflix be sued into bankruptcy for streaming content
You missed his point... he doesn't care what happens to Hulu or Netflix. They don't exist as far as he's concerned.
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
And filesharing is useful for rare stuff.
Filesharing on a small darknet may not be useful for rare stuff, unless your friends happen to have it. -1 Downside.
Re:Those services are not international (Score:5, Insightful)
iTunes doesn't work with Linux, as jopsen says Hulu is US only (and the BBC iPlayer is UK only), and Moonlight is never going to gain any traction under Linux. Even Flash has only just arrived for 64-bit computers recently. The only reliable cross-platform and international way to watch movies is to download them via file-sharing.
Phillip.
Re:Great idea... (Score:3, Insightful)
People still fileshare? Everything I want to listen to and watch can be streamed now.
Yeah, nothing like low-quality, [BUFFERING] media that can suddenly "become unavailable" with no warning! That's the best!
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
The first rule of u*****: never talk about u*****.
Re:Great idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
So how's last year's season of movies and independent music artists who are not crap, working out for you? Can't find them on the streaming websites? Enjoying your guns n roses, aerosmith, metallica etc? I'm not saying those are great artists but just easy examples.
The only way to get the stuff at the real cost of distribution is to instead get it at completely scam-worthy prices online (10$ for a digital CD? 4$ for a movie?) simply because you didn't record it yourself and/or get it off filesharing networks for free, which is what it's truly worth: 0$. Honestly why should you pay later for something that you could have recorded yourself for free?
whoops.
Guess you can't do that, because they're all taken down or removed due to licensing issues, or label you a pirate for daring to fileshare.
Re:Great idea... (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm certain that Hulu at least has tried to get international distribution... most likely it is because the organization which holds the rights to that is not interested.... often each country will have a company which has previously negotiated distribution rights for various content. The details of these contracts are likely very convoluted due to some special circumstance.
I can imagine a scenario where a media company gives some other media company distribution rights to general content so that they can get Brittany Spears concerts approved or so they can get Olympics coverage set up for 4 years in the future, etc.
Yeah, but... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Great idea... (Score:4, Insightful)
Filesharing on a small darknet may not be useful for rare stuff, unless your friends happen to have it. -1 Downside.
Luckily, noone targets the rare stuff with lawsuits.
Silverlight 2 vs. Moonlight 1 (Score:4, Insightful)
Moonlight is never going to gain any traction under Linux.
And let me guess, somehow this will not be the fault of Linux, and the blame will be squarely leveled at Microsoft.
It'll be the fault of Microsoft if Microsoft continues to make questionably necessary additions to the Silverlight spec to make the Moonlight developers fall behind, and then continues to push Silverlight app developers to "take advantage" of those additions.