Talk:Comparison of file-sharing applications

message: I found an old version of Blubster on my hard drive. Wanted to check for information on it, but it's not listed here. There are other discontinued P2P programs, is it worth adding them to the list just for completion's sake?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.253.186.62 (talk) 07:38, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding discontinued programs?

message: Does anybody else think that we also need a comparison of the different file sharing networks?
:Absolutely YES!83.189.85.130 (talk) 12:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. One thing that stands out is that a lot of gnutella clients are open source, but the network server software itself is proprietary. Plus it would be good to have a comparison of speeds from a neutral point of view. --naught101 (talk) 05:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: file sharing networks

message: I wonder on what basis is the info on the column Spyware/Adware determined. I have a source for this  with different info. For example, the free version of BearShare is said to be infected with spyware.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/p2p/
This site should be trustworthy enough, since it povides a spyware removal tool.
:agreed. Bearshare contains spyware. whenu send the browsing information to a centrail point and that is spyware in my opinion. Having a uninstall option does not make it less privacy invading. The bearshare program is even an example of this on the spyware page :Leuk he 11:02, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you honestly expect people to believe that anti-spyware researchers did not closely examine these products? The people behind them are clearly trying to manipulate their image on WP.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.160.13.242 (talk) 14:12, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I actually do.  My reputation and standing in the P2P community is considerable and my experience level in matters of adware, spyware and online security is well respected. In this case an error first introduced in PestPatrol in it's early years stood uncorrected due to lack of interest even as the database was exported to other related applications and continued to remain in error after Microsoft bought it and rebranded it as their own product.  :P  Aaron Walkhouse (talk) 20:44, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spyware?! 

message: Rumors has it that µTorrent supply adware. 
As several of the programs on the list are open source, there's also a an undergrowth of dubious clones. An example is the disraeli version of emule which message other users with seemingly an advertisement for itself and emule.net which looks very much like emule-project.net but different enough to maybe be an adware clone?
:I think there should be a column that says about clients that have had spyware/adware in the past, this could be quite good information.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.145.205.227 (talk) 11:25, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think adding a general warning about it being possible to copy Open Source programs and adding spyware to them should be fine... mfg, OldDeath -  20:29, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  adware rumors and a "caution" header

message: Is not anonymous. The vendor does not claim this. on the contrary, it uses strong encryption to veryfy the identity of a user. I think it still discloses the ip of the sender (there is something about relay servers in the documentation, but i doubt it is for anonimysation)  :Leuk he 16:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  verosee 

message: Where's bitcomet and DC++ on the list? 128.6.176.14 21:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing apps 

message: I think we should organize this by protocol/network for example have all the Gnutella clients in one section, etc. MattTheMan 04:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: Why does this article exist? It is completely unencyclopedic and totally unsourced. It seems to be entirely original research. Wikipedia is not Consumer Reports. --Tysto 22:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Original research is a term used in Wikipedia to refer to material that has not been published by a reliable source. It includes unpublished facts, arguments, concepts, statements, or theories, or any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that appears to advance a position — or which, in the words of Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales, would amount to a "novel narrative or historical interpretation."   Please use correct arguments.... :Leuk he 12:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete this article

message: Some of the other technology lists limit entries to those that have their own article. This ensures notability, of the application in this case, and eliminates the temptation of link spammers to add a URL just to increase their google ranking. Another advantage is that the discussion of notability happens at the article level, not here. Does any other editor have a problem if we start eliminating entries that don't have an article (blue link) associated with them? JonHarder talk 21:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fully for the idea. Keep the list clear of cruft. Ultra-Loser [  T  ] [  C  ]   09:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

text: A quick count seems to indicate only 5 entries will be removed by those criteria (no article or external link).  I think it's a good way to ensure notability, though, so I'm in favor of it.  --GargoyleMT 16:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

text: hydranode & lphant do not have own articles, but if you search for them you will see that they are named in some other articles.  So please add them again. mybe they deserve their own article, or a list a link into comparison of edonkey software.   :Leuk he 13:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That runs counter to the purpose of the cleanup, doesn't it?  Once they have articles that withstand people looking them over for notability, then adding them again makes sense.  --GargoyleMT 22:46, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: You really need a column with some assessment of popularity.  Number of users, number of unique files, amount of bandwidth used by everyone in a given day, etc.  Number of users is probably best. — Omegatron 18:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, that would be better in a list of networks, I guess; not applications.  Peer-to-peer#Networks.2C_protocols_and_applications — Omegatron 20:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  +1. you could have both; "Gnutella (xxxxx users)"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.225.174.243 (talk) 23:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Given the highly chaotic and transient nature of P2P networks, even a rough estimate of usage numbers would be highly unreliable and speculative.  Sufficient to say that even the smallest network has hundreds of thousands of users and the upper limits are unknowable.  LimeWire claims ten million, but that is still a guess.  The Pirate Bay puts out big numbers, but they only represent one corner of bittorrent.  It's a large corner, sure, but not the whole.  Aaron Walkhouse (talk) 20:52, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of users 

message: Does that include limeware pro or do they remove the spyware when you pay the money? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.195.132.253 (talk) 22:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Limewire likely has some support forum or email address that can help you.  Best of luck!  --GargoyleMT 21:54, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No form of LimeWire has ever had spyware of any form, not even the most recent versions which give you the option to filter out unlicensed, copyrighted music files. :P Aaron Walkhouse 08:33, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 68.195.132.253 don't use ALL CAPS. Odessaukrain 00:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Acutally limewire has had some adware in the past. It is not relevant in this article nowadays.:Leuk he 08:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spyware question 

message: This article fails to show that BearShare supports ed2k and magnet links. All Gnutella clients if I recall support magnet, with the exception of MAYBE one. I've edited to reflect this change.
Limefan913 18:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  BearShare link compatibility  

message: I hadn't heard that Limewire had been sued and disabled!  Mine is working just fine...216.227.73.185 21:42, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Arista v. LimeWire has been dragging on since 2006.  It looks like LimeWire will win.  Aaron Walkhouse (talk) 20:56, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limewire sued? 

message: Author or editor should be added  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.68.124.87 (talk) 12:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Author / Editor missing 

message: It is a clone of limewire, and frostwire, they say it is better than lime wire  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.108.205 (talk) 22:12, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about mp3 rocket 

message: I think this kind of list ought to have a button to filter applications by contents in a column (e. g. anonimity: Yes). What do you think?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 512upload (talk • contribs) 15:17, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It does.  There's a sorting box next to each header title. Rurik (talk) 17:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navigatability 

message: Is there not any more recent data for the userbase of the largest filesharing networks? AFAIK, Fasttrack has gone downhill while Gnutella has almost caught up eDonkey...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Old Death (talk • contribs) 10:59, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Was there ever proper data? The networks have strong fluctuations with users logging on and off all the time, serversupported networks present fakeusers... Even if you were able to log the number of users at a certain time, 5 minutes later you might log the same number but they may be all different ppl. Consequentially, so called "surveys" have always contradicted e.o. wildly. --Echosmoke (talk) 00:08, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: At least for G2, I know there is for example a crawler able to determine the people online on the network with a precision of +/-100 or something similar (currently, there are only stats for the number of Hubs but the other graphs will be added again at a later time...) I don't know if there is a crawler currently active on gnutella but there were several in the past making it possible to determine the number of users at a given time with a precision below +/-1k. Greetings, Old Death (talk) 21:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Users of the different filesharing networks 

message: I don't know if i should just jump in and change the errors, or should i discuss it here first. I'll be polite and wait a day or so before doing a change. Freenet and GNUnet are not filesharing applications, they have file sharing applications running on top of them but both are networks, you wouldn't call Samba a file-sharing application, would you? Freenet has two file sharing applications: Frost (which is under active development, and is a news-group + file sharing app) and Thaw (which is currently unmaintained), there also was FreeMulET, but that is largely dead now. Anyhow, if nobody objects i will do some research about GNUnet also and change the article. 141.241.202.33 (talk) 12:15, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Several errors 

message: From your friends at peer-to-peer - probably duplicates most of this list.    M   20:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of file sharing programs 

message: The software Nakido - you use it at the background and search & download files at the website (it's like to search torrent but you don't see the software) 8-) 85.250.162.224 (talk) 11:00, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This project is dead (web site http://www.nakido.com down on 2015-09-07) --Dadu (talk) 06:38, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nakido - filehosting sofrware 

message: Hello, do you know a trick to display only the year ? from : 
  --Dadu (talk) 09:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making column ''Latest release version'' more readable by displaying year only 

message: I've always used Halite as a BitTorrent Client. It's multi plataform, comes in all 32bit and 64bit permutations for the various platforms, it's lightning fast and has a couple of nifty features you don't find everywhere. Plus, is fast and has a very reduced memory footprint. I think it should be included in the list. Or at least an article should be written  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.174.45.156 (talk) 18:20, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an other page for bittorrent-only clients: Comparison of BitTorrent software. --Dadu (talk) 06:40, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halite 

message: I am not OK with the 'Cleanups' done by 'User:FockeWulf FW 190' in october 2017 (he removed several softwares: anchor, Datawire, ExoSee, NeoLoader, Sharing Max, SoMud, and the section 'File sharing web applications'). If the comment was something else than 'Cleanup' I may accept some, but the way this is done does not please me. Am I the only one ? --Dadu (talk) 14:19, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Cleanups' by [[User:FockeWulf FW 190]], october 2017 

message: Many of the file sharing apps run under Linux, but Linux is not mentioned. Instead, there is "GNU". Is that supposed to refer to Linux?  If so, this seems to be a very politically charged article, in urgent need of being fixed. Sad to see something like this in Wikipedia.
If not, then Linux should definitely need to be included in the list of OS.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sciken (talk • contribs) 06:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The explanation ?: GNU/Linux naming controversy. --Dadu (talk) 08:30, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNU? Really?