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Posted by anthonyberet on 11/05/05 16:16
FinnTroll wrote:
> "Darkstar" <someone@nowhere.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:0E1bf.5181$m81.4503@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
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>>Ken wrote
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>>"At least we seem to have got rid of some of the 'leeches' and
>>slow, lazy learners who used to post problems that were answered over and
>>over so many times."
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>>Let's look at the big picture Ken, Nearly the entire community is gone. Oh sure
>>there are stragglers, those with the patience to tweak their host files daily
>>But the leeches, the newbies, the young and the old and the slow, lazy learners
>>are gone John Hiatt has a song about it I think. It's called "Gone".
>>Hopefully it will come back but I doubt it. It's all about the money for the
>>riaa and their ilk. and once again those with money win. The community is gone,
>>scattered, dispersed. I suspected from the first days of Napster that we really
>>should enjoy this while we have it. because we won't have it very long.
>>
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> Of course you're right, Darkstar, at least if everyone starts thinking in the same
> manner as you do. From my own POV, I can only say that it is no more work to
> install and use WinMX now then before. It is as simple as find, download and
> install, plus configuring ones router/modem ports ... same as before the big
> shutdown a couple weeks ago.
>
> Downloads aren't hard to find, depending on what it is that you're looking for and
> another good thing is that speed, "u/l" aswell as "d/l", has increased severly
>
While I agree it is easy to get winmx running, and that the network
seems improved with less leeches, the population must have been
decimated. The trouble is that most casual users will only know the word
'winmx', and when searching on that, previously one would be directed to
www.winmx.com
Now that the primary download source is gone, there wont be so many new
users. Also, must users of this group used to find it via winmx.com, so
I do think the this group will eventually quieten down.
However, I am still impressed with the numbers that are left.
p2p can't be killed-off, at all.
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