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>>61865019
users

>>61865062
Dis

>>61865019

if we assume no central index server is needed/used, then we likely would have an entirely different internet today.

Since there is no one entity to take blame, and since governments cant arrest the entire userbase, i would think it likely all of media would go apeshit, lobby the mortal fuck out of congress, and all filesharing would be banned entirely.
or congress would force all internet users to install a root certificate issued by their ISP in order to use the internet. such a certificate would log every byte transferred by the user.

Probably the same thing that happened to emule and kedmlia.

>>61865143
what happened to them

>>61865143
>emule
huh?
i thought it died due to low use/age
most people just moved to more reliable torrents or just made the switch entirely to streaming service.

The centralized tracker which made it useful would have been targeted, the same as public-over-internet Direct Connect and Hotline clusters were.

If it went full mesh networking, it would have failed miserably, as the average user's machine of a Pentium connected over dialup simply isn't up to that. A successor would have made it functional by adding centralized trackers, and the group which developed and operated those trackers would have been targeted with the same results.

>>61865204
Emule didn't use torrents dumbass

>>61865204
Emule is still alive and has an active community

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>>61865340
>Emule is still alive
but why?
other than the acquisition of Content Protected under law, what use is there when you have torrents and usenet?

>>61865970
>but why?
Chinks, who also maintain mods and forks.

>>61865970
emule has distrubuted search built-in unlike torrents or usenet

>>61865195
nothing. they still exist and are used. but they're kind of scene and not really comparable to contemporary p2p solutions.

also, I have no idea what I meant by kedmlia. I think I meant to say the kad network, but my mind trailed off.

>>61865970
amule and kad is probably the most actively used and reliable protocol of all of the services popularly used on top of i2p. also, neither streaming and BitTorrent are similar enough that you could, unless you were ignorant, compare them to emule.

>>61865970
What use is there for torrents when you have emule and usenet?
What use is there for usenet when you have torrents and emule?
The more the merrier.

Emule is utterly superior to torrents, but normie's like torrents cause they have easy little http links to click, hence why its popular today. Torrents are like soda cans, and after they are used up, they litter the internet as fucking dead links. Disgusting!

>>61866275
all those zero seeders

>>61867700
Why has eMule/eDonkey never caught on except China (until recently)? Technological limitations compared to torrent.

I remember using Kazaa, Limewire, Bearshare and then DC++

I think the main problem was the speeds. Torrents relied on seeds of course, but my downloads were at least 10 times faster than any of the other networks.

>>61867741
it has caught on.
its just not mainstream caught on

casuals if a casual cant figure it out inside of 5 minutes, then they dont use it. hence why torrents are so popular.
>install client
>find tracker
>click link
>download

eMule requires a few more steps, and even more if you get low id issues (usually needing to forward ports which nearly all casuals have zero clue on how to do right)

>>61867741
>Why has eMule/eDonkey never caught on except China (until recently)?
Because it relied on a credit system that penalized clients who didn't upload.
Because of lowid.
Because torrent came out and it was infinitely better.