Wasted all day looking for a suitable P2P candidate.
Ultimately I would like to be able to throw away all my decaying old tapes and records, and have all that old music, which I never listen to anyway, on a device which serves as my jukebox/music server. Does the music industry object to this kind of activity? Surely, since I’ve already paid for that music, I can continue to retain a copy of it? No, you’re right, they probably do.
Anyway, my requirement for something vaguely secure seems too much to ask at this time. giFT looked promising; but they have yet to release, and it didn’t compile on openBSD anyway. I can’t find much evidence of people writing expoits for the P2P networks. Probably since such-minded people still see them as friendly; but give it time… there’s always a deviant.
The vast bulk of P2P seems to be happening on win32 clients produced by entities with commercial interests – advertising and spyware. I make a careful note of the participants however… primarily non-computing types. Is P2P the new killer application? Move over lotus-123 and email… a new prime mover of computing for the masses may be on arrival.
