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...honest here - they all pretty much sucked (unlike Napster). Not one of them was likely to pick up 60 million users and the kind of dazzlingly diverse and comprehensive music choice you get on a network that size. BearShare was the best of a crop of programs that used Gnutella technology; but the way Gnutella works means you're largely limited to rifling through the collections of 25,000 virtual neighbors. Close but no cigar, as Thomas Dolby sang (and you'd have little chance of finding that track, for one). Aimster had the neat idea of piggybacking...
...This is probably a temporary Balkanization. The big labels will be very stupid if they don't get together eventually, and I think that's inevitable, even if there are separate distribution channels. If people have to shop by label, they're going to go to Gnutella. I think this acquisition by Vivendi is probably just strengthening their hand for the big negotiations to come...
...Over the course of its yearlong court battle to squash music-swapper Napster, the RIAA was not known for its futurism. And with a host of other free-music sites out there - BearShare, Gnutella, Aimster, yada, yada, yada, - snapping up downloaders as we speak, Rosen's optimism for a more moral world of online music (or merely a more lucrative one for the record companies, whichever you prefer) may be a bit premature. But she's right about one thing - the Senate wasn't doing much more than holding a star-studded wake...
...even now that the recording companies have muzzled Napster, their real solution is nowhere in sight. Computer nerds, bless their souls, seem to have an unyielding desire to boast their virtual manhood. Encryption codes will be broken; system will be beaten. Gnutella, for example, is a small, mysterious little file sharing program that has no central servers to blame and will probably allow piracy to thrive as long as the Internet exists. No one can stop the wave...
...Because file-swapping, like nature, seems destined to always find a way. Because decentralized operations like Aimster, BearShare and Gnutella don't have Napster's tragic flaw - those 12 central servers - they're legally bulletproof...