Friday May 04 10:00 AM EDT
File traders pick up sidekick
By Stefanie Olsen CNET News.com
A new tool piggybacking on popular file-sharing services such as
Napster (news - web sites) aims to help music fans ignore bogus files
by
letting them rate and review downloads.
The software, being tested by
Charlottesville, Va.-based
FileFreedom.com, addresses one of the
biggest problems apart from filters for
people using file-sharing services: faulty or
poor-quality files. It lets people avoid such
files by reading reviews or ratings for
downloads such as they might for a book
or CD bought at Amazon.com. Called SideKick, the tool is compatible
with file-sharing networks such as Napster, BearShare, iMesh and
Audiogalaxy.
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