Mike Arrington says (via Scripting News) that AllPeers is going to be Firefox’s killer app. It’s a plugin that will allow you to share files with people on a buddy list.
I think it’s an absolutely brilliant idea. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Anyone want to make a guess at how long it will be before the copyright cartels attack AllPeers?
Let the suing begin! Once the search is actually working, that is. (via Slashdot)
From Wired News:
Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent protocol.
Very cool. I hope they have excellent lawyers.
BitTorrent 4.1.0 beta includes support for trackerless torrents. Very cool.
