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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Napster client that is capable of handling vorbis (ogg) files
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Terry Lambert wrote:
 
> > > Try GNUtella; it can do files without needing to look at their
> > > extension to tell what type they are.
> >
> > Series: "Articles, we don't want to see." Today:
> >
> > <http://music.zdnet.com/features/highnote/092100_gnutella_dead.html>
> 
> So it has bad architecture; most free software does.  If it
> didn't, it would have cost a lot to develop, the people who
> did the work would be looking to recoup their costs, and it
> wouldn't be free software.
> 
> The question I was answering had to do with distribution of
> arbitrary file formats (in this case, one using a codec that
> is so unknown to most people, that it wouldn't make sense to
> try to support it, unless there started a Windows version,
> and someone put up a recoding gateway to turn things that
> were encoded using it back into MP3s).

Mojonation looks interesting: www.mojonation.net. A slightly different
model, users get paid "mojo" for providing servers and have to pay it to
download files. It's still in beta and there's no BSD port yet (but
they're working on it).

					-- C.


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