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lythoboy

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« on: September 11, 2002, 08:04:00 PM »
it would be nice but I dont think it should be here, these are a really good source of information for a lot of people, it'd be a shame if the whole thing had to go offline (even for a few days) just coz of some suit seeing the links to illegal software.

maybe someone out there will do a companion site, non-affiliated but with links to the files.
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PsychoZX

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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2002, 06:36:00 AM »
Why do you think www.sharereactor.com is still online. I think If we use anything we should use edonkey2000 links.
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« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2002, 08:47:00 AM »
I think it would be fine to have both but edonkey is no longer under development, its a smaller network, and personally the performance has been horrible for me. There is no reason not to create links for both edk2 and gnutella though. Its easy and legal.
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PsychoZX

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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2002, 08:10:00 AM »
QUOTE (gnutellafan @ Sep 13 2002, 02:47 PM)
I think it would be fine to have both but edonkey is no longer under development, its a smaller network, and personally the performance has been horrible for me. There is no reason not to create links for both edk2 and gnutella though. Its easy and legal.

                                    It isn't under devlopment for now. Once they are done working out the major stuff in overnet development for edonkey will resume. Also I get a bout speeds of 3-80 kybtes a sec (depending on the file). I just leave it on overnight.
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« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2002, 11:49:00 AM »
Nothing has been hard to find at all for me with a little bit of reading/searching.
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« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2002, 01:22:00 AM »
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painlord2k

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« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2002, 12:12:00 PM »
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Gnutellafan said many right thing about gnutella and magnet link, but he miss a few of fundamental points.  wink.gif

1) The Magnet link technology is from Bitzi.
That site mantain a database of metadata (data about data) of files.
Go there and see and use the search engine. smile.gif

2) The Magnet link technology use the SHA1 hash to identify a file (hashes are numbers that identify in a unique way a file). The SHA1 hash is very strong and can not be forged (so no one can take a SHA1 hash and build a file with the corresponding hash).   tongue.gif

3) Bitzi NOW distribute a little program called "Bitcollider" that do the SHA1 and TigerTree (explaining later) hashes and extract metadata about a file (e.g. the ID3 tag in MP3, etc.) and submit them to Bitzi (or print them for you). Also it compute the edonkey hash and the fasttrack hash.  cool.gif

So if you go to Bitzi, you can obtain the link to a file in FastTrak, Edonkey and Gnutella.

4) The TigerTree hash is there for a good purpose.
The TigerTree specification enable to create a "tree of hashes" so when you download a file you must not wait the end of the download to kwon if the file is corrupted or not. You (your program) can check every chunk of the file was downloaded and verify it.
So a third party can not "poison" a file during a multiple download. ph34r.gif

So if there is a release of a DVD or CD for X-box it can be searched and finded in all the three networks
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