Another great P2P program is Kazaa. Kazaa and Morpheus have been the two most popular so far (since Napster). They were both based on the same technology, but Morpheus recently changed to a "Gnutella" based infrastructure which was a huge mistake. Anyway, without getting into the boring stuff, Kazaa works uniquely in that it allows you to download things from multiple users, increasing your download speed, without taxing their upload speed (so even dialup users can contribute to the network). Basically the Kazaa network digitally marks files. This means that if I search for "PTG.txt" and 100 other people have the exact same file, I can download a small piece from each of them. If each of the 100 people is uploading a chunk of it to me @ 1k, then I receive it at 100k/s. Hope that didn't bore anyone to death :) Anyway, Winmx is great, Kazaa (in my opinion) is a bit better. I have used both though, and either one would be well suited to your purposes. The one advantage I would give Kazaa is that it's a bigger network. Depending on the type of file you're looking for, a bigger network means better results. Anyway, Good luck! Jonathan Finger RPT. -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Robert Goodale Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:23 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Half Topical-- File sharing WinMX is a great PTP network, I've been using it for quite some time now. Beware- almost all PTP networks out there sneak in spyware and pop-up cookies, even if you select "no" that you don't want them when installing it. WinMX does not, (still have to select "no" but in their case "no" really means "no"). It works great and simple to use. You can share any kind of files (mp3, ,jpg, midi, graphics, video, text, programs, etc.). For those of you who missed out on the Napster phenomenon this is actually better. Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV > > I use DC and also enjoy winmx. Try it--freeware winmx.com (and Canadian > too!) *grin* _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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