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This is a repeat of what I wrote in the "Did it happend now? is AG down!?" thread:
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In this situation, the sensible man would realise that the targets of the RIAA are large organisations that provide a server for the public's use.
So, AG has all its servers in one place, and the satellite knows instantly where to connect to, downloads start nice and quickly. But it can be targeted.
As I say, the sensible man would realise that similar services like Kazaa (bleugh) will also be targeted very quickly.
So the best solution is ... go for a service that really is distributed over everywhere. That means something like DirectConnect or eDonkey. Personally I use eDonkey.
There is a drawback to these distributed services, that you must find servers yourself, and these often only run for a few days at a time... however I think this is no problem as there are quite a good few coordinated ServerLists floating around. I've managed to find tons of fantastic stuff over the donkey already.
Did anybody else here really like AG's lovely search facility? It was fantastic, and I don't like the search facility of Kazaa, for example. There are loads of cataloging websites that provide identifying links for files all over the web. And I'm sure that ain't illegal.
Think of this from the RIAA's point of view: People are starting up and shutting down file sharing servers all over the globe, all the time ... how on earth do you trace or police that? You can't, quite simply. They would probably attempt to stop use of the client program altogether, but once it's out then there's not much stopping it.
I still stand by my decision that using Kazaa is like living in the house built on sand, since that will be under fire soon enough as well. Time for a proper distributed server, I reckon. Maybe the future role of trancEaddict.com will be an indexing service?
Let's hope this post doesn't go unnoticed in the barrage of anti-RIAA flame...
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