What file-sharing program do you use?

That's the spirit Olympus, a voice of reason amongst all this deplorable talk of filesharing


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Newsgroups and on occaison torrents.

Thanks for sharing that fender101....

goose wrote: A filesharing system, but one where you can only connect to specific users on it - that's not entirely accurate but in this instance it'll do, because it means only those on campus can connect to it, so as long as no one from the RIAA is studying at Surrey, we're pretty safe

It's not the RIAA you have to worry about. England will have it's own Record Industry Association. In Australia it is ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) and they certainly go out of their way to shut down file sharing in Uni's. All these industry association people know that universities are just a hot-bed of filthy little filesharing geeks who don't want to pay a cent for the right to play music, ignoring the fact that most of them wouldn't have two cents to rub together anyway. I still find it amusing to think that all these RIA's think that just because so and so has all these music files on his computer that were downloaded, then the music industry is out of pocket. They fail to realise that so and so would probably never have gone out and bought these because so and so can't afford it anyway.

goose wrote: Same here, but we still have internal sharing on DC++

Forgive my ignorance but whats that?

Same here, but we still have internal sharing on DC++

Emule.

Dennis wrote: WinMx is no doubt the best (yes the patch works) because you can find so many prog-related rareities from various continents. Nothing comes near it for these type of finds, not that I keep those files, mind you! I also use Soulseek where I found goodies not found elsewhere too, but it's much more limited than WinMx.

Have to agree Dennis. The shutting down of the WinMx Peer network didn't affect me because I haven't connected to it for about a year. Using the OpenNap network connection only I have not been dissapointed- seems to be full of prog lovers.

WinMx is no doubt the best (yes the patch works) because you can find so many prog-related rareities from various continents. Nothing comes near it for these type of finds, not that I keep those files, mind you! I also use Soulseek where I found goodies not found elsewhere too, but it's much more limited than WinMx. 

TheProgtologist wrote: Why am I the only one who has problems with Soulseek?I get good search results but actually getting something to DL is another story. Oh well....I have found a ton of good prog using Shareaza.

Not that I use or know anything about this program, but-

Do you use a router to connect. If so you need to do some port forwarding on port 2234.