Grouper????
 

Is anybody familiar with this/have experience with this? I guess it could be considered the "new" way to P2P and bypass the RIAA and MPAA.

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A good friend of mine last night sent me an invitation to join his "group". We normally share files via FTP but that hasn't worked as well as we would like, so he found this as an alternative. Since I haven't heard of this before, and it opens some of my files up for sharing, I am naturally a little suspicious.

It seems to be fairly secure and I haven't found anything negative about it using Google, so I thought I would check here for opinions as well.

Anybody used it?
Like it---don't like it?
Secure---unsecure?

Wow. Someone took WASTE and put a little clip art here and there.

Gee, this hasn't been done before. *rolls eyes*. </sarcasm> Maybe I'm just getting really sick of people who create entirely new applications that pretty much rip off someone elses ideas.

The fact of the matter is: anyone can make a DarkNet. Create strong firewall rules and authentication routines, and anyone can share anything within a small number of people.

Hell, even using BitTorrent would work. And with that, it would work even better because of the way the protocol works. E-mail someone a torrent, have them download it and then keep the torrent seeding. Bandwidth isn't neccessarily being chewed up because at certain times, no one will be downloading from a certain torrent.

I have begun not to trust anything I can't find the source too, and the same rule applies for me with this application. I would use WASTE if I were you. At the very least, the source code is out there for you to modify to your liking. :)

I would say it sounds exactly like WASTE. Not sure if the encryption is the same (or even if there is any), but the concept has already been done.

sounds exactly like waste with some more UI bloat...personally I trust waste more because of the fact that it is LGPL and it compiles well with winelib...but to each his own.

someone should check to see if some of these waste type setups are a copy of waste... with a nice new frontend...if so we got some GPL issues...


on the same note...anyone willing to join and help out with the waste project is welcome. I think it could use some help lotta projects related are kinda lifeless...including the linux client port..