Originally posted by Klostrophobic
The ability to connect to billions of users
That's basically my first idea. Nearly every P2P application runs on either the Fast Track network or the Gnutella network. There a millions of users on both networks alone. If you had a P2P that ran both the Fast Track and Gnutella network, you would get more users and thus more chances of finding what you want.
Unfortunately, there is no P2P that does this yet...that I know of. As I was reading out of an MP3 article in a computer magazine, you should have two P2P applications - one running the Gnutella network (
Limewire or
Bearshare) and one running the Fast Track network (
Kazaa or
Grokster).
And then, there is another P2P app that doesn't run neither the Gnutella or Fast Track network.
Audiogalaxy, although it doesn't have as many users as the Fast Track and Gnutella networks, has got one hell of a [+]. Once you have downloaded the Audiogalaxy client and registered, all of a user's files in his/her share file are uploaded and saved to Audiogalaxy's database. That way a user can be offline and his/her files still be downloadable, or vise-versa. A user can download files off another user that is offline. This is great as you don't have to worry about the person your downloading from go offline and leave you in mid-download....especially if there is only the one user with that file.
There is also P2P applications like
DCPlusPlus which I don't know a great deal about. Klostrophic is probably the one to ask about these kind of peer-to-peer apps.
And finally, I thought I'd finish with a list of other P2Ps:
Opennap,
Blubster,
iMesh,
Swaptor,
Filetopia and
WinMX. The list goes on and so could I with this post but I think I've said enough.
Sorry for breaking out into a whole P2P explaination, but I just felt like it had to be there.
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