Posted by db on 09/26/05 21:06

"ChenHA" <hzhen@freeuk.com> wrote in message
news:suhgj1d5pva21psu9a4sm4d1la5omg960m@4ax.com...
> Barring Frontcode deciding to do something about WinMX future, it
> looks like people using the program is actually taking over the
> running of the network. It's an accidental people's revolution. I
> see advantages and problems - for example, it would be easier to
> control the fake files since the people using it are the more
> "computer savvy" type, and so it might be easier to identify and block
> the fakers, it may also means that the people running the servers
> might become subject to legal action.

Assuming they even need to use the peer caches for access (which I don't
believe they necessarily do)...

> So where do we go from here? There are many interesting questions

I'm not sure about 'where do we go from here' as I'm not too confident that
things are going to turn out well at all given some of what I've been seeing
lately (concerns with the new 'operators' attitudes, in-fighting, the jostle
for authority, etc, etc (power, and all it entails)). I keep alternating
between a positive & negative outlook about the future of the network so
far, though probably biased towards the negative.

The way I'm looking at it is that WinMX and the WPN was effectively put down
when FC's caches went offline, though, has been resusitated in a new guise
to whose future is uncertain. Trust ended on that day, for me, to be
replaced by concern (or something).

> It is possible that Frontcode may want to regain control of the
> software (they are relocating to Vanuatu according to Slyck), and put
> out the long-awaited new version of WinMX. Interesting times
> whatever happens.

Indeed.

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