Posted by ChenHA on 09/26/05 22:31

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:06:08 +0100, "db" <@ .> wrote:

>
>"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)...
>

How so?

Is there a germ of an interesting idea?

>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.

I don't have any particular opinion one way or the other. I think
that it is likely to be temporary thing until someone else come up
with a better solution, and I do also think that fragmentation of the
network is a very likely scenario with different people running
different WinMX networks.


>
>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).
>

Trust in whom? Frontcode or the people running peer caches? I do
wonder if I can trust the people running peer caches, but we'll see.

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