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Saturday, January 22, 2005

The Next BitTorrent?
"We have not created BitTorrent, but a totally new P2P, which is a lot different from BitTorrent," said Andrej "Sloncek" Preston, who represents Swarm Systems and operated the now-defunct SuprNova site. "I think it's a fresh approach. Only time will tell if it's going to work." So saying, the new software, Called eXeem, aims to merge the speedy downloads of BitTorrent with the powerful global search capabilities of Kazaa or eDonkey.

Only time, the FCC (sans Michael Powell), and the RIAA will tell...

(For a larger look at the exeem interface, right click the image and select "view image" from the options.)
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Being that it is ad driven keeps it off my 'puter. Sorry but anything that pushes ads at me for some reason rubs me the wrong way.

Thumbs down from this Todd.

# posted by JD 5:55 AM

I heard that this software includes spyware and/or adware, so I'm definitely not installing it. I just need a regular BT client as I don't do P2P except when a site provides me a link to something (like Linux ISO's and the like).

# posted by David 7:24 AM

More trash from the ilk of P2P bundled with Cydoor and providing no protection for the users according to BayTSP. Just more junk.... my opinion anyway.

Dale Medley
compHobby.org

# posted by Anonymous 8:33 AM

I think people who use Kazaa or eDonkey should go ahead and use it. Those people probably don't use BT anyway. It's being pushed at the wrong people. I don't see the immediate need for a BT replacement. But the guys who ran Suprnova might!

# posted by Anonymous 9:08 AM

I am shaking my head at the fact that BT (the technology not the program covered here) is getting a bad name because of illegal file sharing. It's just like P2P, which is a great concept, being assiciated with Napster when there are many other uses, included Skype. BT is even more powerful and elegant and someday all large movies will be distrubuted this way, legally and illegally.

# posted by Alice 9:45 AM

Kazaa has shut down it's servers. If you have it installed and it is working then it will continue to work but if for some reason you need to reinstall it the program never connects. illegal or legal the genie is out of the bottle and it is left up to your morale views on the subject about sharing, trading, swapping.

# posted by JD 9:49 AM

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