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Old 04-06-03, 02:44 PM   #20
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Originally posted by multi
Now not everybody qualifies to be a SUN. To be a SUN, you must have over 5,000 files.
Well, isn't that the most retarded thing I've heard in ages! A Sun (a supernode in other words) needs lots of bandwidth and cpu. Why would the number of files shared matter at all? In fact, the fewer the better, as the cpu and bandwidth can be dedicated to running searches.

Also, your (which is to say monyak's) claim that ES5 is the only P2P able to get through firewalls is clearly specious; I've used at some point just about every P2P app ever created, and none had problems getting through firewalls. Going as far as Napster you had pull/push to get around the problem. And firewalled-to-firewalled client connections are only possible with the help of a non-firewalled proxy, which is nice to have, but you won't be getting anything over a few megs in a reasonable time with this method. A better solution is to use a popular client which will provide plenty of non-firewalled sources.

All the noise about Kazaa, SoulSeek, Gnutella, WinMX, eDonkey, DirectConnect and others users migrating em masse to ES5, is pure bullshit, and shows a clear lack of understanding of the scene. The two by far largest migrations happened because the network folded (Napster, but then OpenNap still lives on) or the client switched (Morpheus moved to Gnutella). There is no case where a new cvlient of ANY sort stole users from other networks.

And streaming porn isn't going to put any porn sites out of business. First of all, the idea sucks. No one 'schedules' their porn viewings, certainly not to anybody else's terms. Second, virtually every single adult movie ever put out is available on P2P, and many adult sites are being ripped and shared already. This has been going on for years, and hasn't made any difference. Porn sites don't live on movie sales.
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