You mean WinMX still Works?

[anon]

There was a time when WinMX was the king of file-sharing. For a brief time, it was arguably larger than FastTrack (Kazaa, Grokster), eDonkey2000, and Gnutella. But that was a long time ago, when the P2P community actually meant something. When FrontCode Technologies, the company behind WinMX, received a “cease and desist” letter from the music industry in 2005, the entire project was abandoned.

The WinMX decentralized network, as it turned out, wasn’t so decentralized. The WinMX client depended on active IP addresses to connect to the network, which were stored on cache servers maintained by FrontCode Technologies. Once these servers went offline, it was impossible to connect, trade, or share files. Although WinMX had been in a slow state of decline for about a year, thanks to the unfulfilled promises of WinMX 4.0 and the arrival of BitTorrent, it remained an excellent resource for MP3s.

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[zatoicchi]

that was ages ago using winmx..it was so popular then and everyone used it..
bring back old memories.. i dont think i would ever used it again

[Aurion]

thanks to the unfulfilled promises of WinMX 4.0 and the arrival of BitTorrent, it remained an excellent resource for MP3s.

yeah the invention of the Bittorrent service eased up lots of p2p users pains regarding sharing/getting new music,movies,games ..etc after most of the p2p clients (ares,kazaa,limewire) became weak tho !!

[anon]

@zat: now you can bring back the nice memories ^^

@Reppy: yes, the fact the Mediadefender and other ap2p companies have greatly screwed the Gnutella and Ares networks is undeniable But Gnutella is still "usable" if you filter certain keywords (in search results), use an IP blocker, and only download MP3s.

[Aurion]

I did not use Ares since 6 years or so,I first used that p2p client when I first knew about p2ps then I switched to more resources based clients such as DC++ (I remember having such great memories with that client,Huge I mean Huge data base of everything & anything) along with bittorrent clients,anyway some one should really try to make something for p2p users like hosting the client on a fake server that no one have access to it but its coder (like what happened with DC++ they changed even the name to Rev++,u can leech from any user without worrying about sharing some hash files + downloading from multiple locations @ the same time instead of getting data from ONLY 1 user as the official DC++ did)

[anon]

That's true, if you're connected to the right DC++ hub, you can find almost anything...
And here Ares is still widely used (I use it myself to download some tracks from time to time), mainly to get local content for which MD, BayTSP, etc... hasn't set up fake files. You can also find nice SFX rips/versions of popular programs and games.

[Aurion]

Ares was a Legend p2p application back then 7 years ago,really it was my no.1 tool for getting anything (especially MP3,since I was a maniac back then),but with the widely used BT clients lately,those tiny weak p2p appz got behind lines that you barely use them once you remember you have them installed & ready for a single Run every 1 year

[anon]

It's still good if you need to get a single track fast, like Lime/Frostwire (if setup correctly)

And here it's definitely not used once a year, just go to a cafe and 90% of people have it open ... sometimes waiting for it to connect though -_-
Solution: carry a SNodes.dat file from home to the cafe's PC

[Aurion]

nah,I was working here perfectly without any glitches but u know the more u get familiar with alternatives the more u forget old days

[anon]

the more u get familiar with alternatives the more u forget old days

And Sharman Networks tries to exploit that selling Kazaa "Pro", when we all know the only good remaining thing about Kazaa are the good old memories, because the network itself is fake-flooded now

[Aurion]

yeah lots of people gave up Kazaa long time ago back then when Limewire showed up (I guess its the most decent p2p app lately along with eMule ofcourse)

[anon]

It has a very small userbase now, mainly people who still share lots of content so as to try to counter the fake files, but Kazaa's hash system (UUHash) exploitability is an obstacle impossible to overcome Their best bet is to move to newer networks IMO.

[Aurion]

hmm,well let me tell you something negative about that lousey p2p application !! we all know that what made it no.1 p2p app back then (at least for the first year till Ares showed up along with DC++) that it had the largest p0rn contents ever existed in any p2p app back then !! so anyway,its good that it went down IMO since most of the its users were infected with very new invented spywares/viruses back then

[anon]

anyway,its good that it went down IMO since most of the its users were infected with very new invented spywares/viruses back then

Yea, that's right, it's just there for "historical purposes" I think
Most of what you can find are viruses/trojans, empty/fake MP3s and p0rn... it can be actually harmful to use it

[Aurion]

That's the point that people stopped dealing in Kazaa & other old p2p appz,now its security-wise to use specific p2p appz such as DC++ & eMule if you got bored of torrenting