The Newspaper Shop -- Wednesday edition

[TankGirl]

Thanks for the news WT sweetie!

Originally posted by walktalker
Outage points to depth of P2P arsenal
The sudden shutdown of the Morpheus network last week has file swappers trolling for new sources of free music -- and they're finding plenty of alternatives. Although Morpheus and rival Kazaa Media Desktop remain the file-swapping tools of choice, a raft of second-tier peer-to-peer products together drew more than 1 million downloads in the past week, according to CNET Download.com, a software aggregation site operated by CNET Networks, publisher of News.com.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-854085.html

Think about those numbers: 1 million downloads of second-tier p2p programs in a week! You can only guess how many more songs and movies those programs will help people to share and download and how many new rewarding trading contacts they will help to create. The RIAA may try to knock down some p2p enterprises and some of them may try to knock down each other but none of that will stop the process and the phenomenon itself. Free filesharing is becoming increasingly popular and commonplace, a natural part of the modern social and technical scenery.

- tg

PS. here are the interesting statistics for last week's CNet downloads:

382,000 iMesh
214,487 BearShare
205,274 LimeWire
161,152 Grokster
105,339 Audiogalaxy
....
7,812 Napster (the new test version)