So, Napster has been shut down. This is probably bad news from a freenet point-of-view since it means that we will probably see a marked increase in downloads as-of Friday, despite Freenet still being incomplete.
There is, however, an opportunity for someone here to take advantage of this using Freenet. I am not saying it is nescessarily a great idea, but if someone is going to do it, I would rather they do it in cooperation with us (since, because Freenet is GPL, there is nothing to stop someone from doing this without our say-so). If someone created a simple (initially Windows) piece of software based around 0.2 specifically designed for distribution of mp3s (as has been discussed in the "LARS" thread), then at least it would serve as an effective test of Freenet. We should be cautious, however, to ensure that people are encouraged to upgrade it when Freenet 0.3 comes out, possibly by making it time-limited to 1st September or something. It should, of course, run a server if possible. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
