Re: Napster, Gnutella: URN lookup services?

From: Joseph Reagle (reagle@alum.mit.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 07:40:17 PDT

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At 09:51 6/28/00 -0700, Jim Whitehead wrote:
>So, it dawned on me today that the name of a song, along with its band
name,
>acts as an identifier for the song.

And I assume you've seen the 'service' that resolves every single gnutella
query to a spam .html page (with a declared bandwidth of 10000). In time, we
will need methods to avoid that sort of shit or you won't be able to
download without grabbing advertisements, virus filled executables, and such.

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