Gnutella doesn't suck anymore

[andysocial]

After a conversation with an old friend today, I revisited Gnutella. There's a program called BearShare that acts as a frontend for Gnutella, and allows searches to be performed without the pain of a few months ago. Just played with BearShare tonight, looking for common and obscure tunes, including some George Carlin and Bill Cosby tracks. Great selection, which indicates that all the publicity that CNN et al have given Napster has raised awareness of such things to the point that Gnutella is actually useful finally. They have definitely hit the critical mass needed to be a decent search tool.

Even better, the RIAA can now only sue individuals, cuz there's no server. So, the record companies are going to take their own customers to court? hehe

Comments

[kittles.livejournal.com]

I've been using Bearshare for a few weeks now - I like it *much* better than I ever liked Napster, although I wish there were more unique ways of searching.

[andysocial]

Hey, cool Transformers icon! :-)

[kittles.livejournal.com]

Thank you! There's some links and images and whatnot for transformers at my new journal now if you care to look. :)