Mystery P2P
 

In a report from London in today’s New York Times and International Herald Tribune, pirate hunters on the lookout for unauthorized software distributors claim to have stumbled across a new peer to peer site so mysterious it can’t even be Googled!

“The organization recently discovered a P2P site, whose name the investigator declined to make public, that offers verified downloads of innumerable programs and can even locate files invisible to other P2P programs. You will not find it through Google.

‘It's incredible how much you can get,’ he said. ‘It's too easy.’ ”

Since we happen to have a few members with more than a bit of experience in these matters yet so far none have any idea what this guy’s talking about, I’m of the opinion it’s peer-to-peer scareware – something designed to make good copy and rile up clueless lawmakers and nothing more; that it’s most likely a recognized albeit exotic application that may be uncommon but hardly unknown.

Still, I'd like to give them a little credit and assume they know something about their job and unless they’re lying the part about Google throws me. I’m not sure I can think of a client that doesn’t return a hit a from the search engine, not something with a working network stuffed with content anyway.

So I'm throwing it open to the greater P2P brain trust for speculation and comment.


The Details ~


· P2P SITE

· Verified downloads

· Innumerable programs

· Files invisible to other P2P programs (whatever that means)

· Not on Google


Any ideas?

- js.

Hmmm.... dosen't ring any bells.

hmm mystery..what happend to the post on this from yesterday,btw?

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When they say site I hope they don't mean program cuz then they lose all their credibility. That verified thing throws me too. I'm thinking they're referring to some spider program similar to our old friend uCshares. http://www.ucshares.com/ Those programs just troll ports and ip's til they find something, whether it's shared on Kazaa or the victim is inadvertently sharing their entire hard drive.

A spider or something like it is a growing consensus, except for those who think the whole thing’s BS. This Heingartner guy’s been around (worked computer stories for Wired before he started same for Times) but he has a few irons in the fire and things may not be so clear. I don’t know, if I had written that piece it wouldn't've been so subtle. It’s such an effing tease isn’t it. I mean reporters are supposed to enlighten, not obscure.

- js.

I would have to say this is all a bunch of garbage:uu:

For pete's sake anybody can block googles crawler from their website it's not all that hard for any semi intelligent webmaster.

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html

es5.

mystery solved.

any questions?

I amazed these guys made this "big" discovery now, considering es5's very "loud" style of advertising, lol.

i think harb's pulling our leg. :)

- js.

Well now that mystery is solved....is es5 any good? Tried to search site to see if any discussed before but won't let me search with less than 4 characters. So if there is a thread somewhere, let me know.

Thanks

hi smokey, es5 is too well known - no mystery there - it's something else entirely. for info check out an es5 story i did, and napho’s thread too.

- js.

if you search google for es5 you will get about 5 hits for it.

thats funny tho..:D
imagine if they had of kept it a bit more low key during it beta stages..and now emerged with a good working version

they may of very well scooped the pool

Yep, that's unfortunate side effect of premature hype....