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New P2P software Grouper to solve illegal music squabbles

By Derek Sooman

On September 13, 2004, 2:54 PM

Offering users the ability to set up mini-P2P networks and open up their photos, music, movies and documents, Grouper does not let users download each others' music. Rather, it permits only streaming of music files, whilst allowing downloads of other content. Quite what happens when you remain a .mp3 file to a .zip or something remains to be seen, maybe someone really smart has thought of that, I don't know. Grouper aims and promises to make the process of P2P totally easy, but only works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP at the moment. Grouper has a nice GUI that shows all the available files, the users linked in, the transfers and a Microsoft media player. It should officially launch in about 10 days time.

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  1. September 13, 2004 5:10 PM
    Phantasm66 said:
    Sounds like its kind of crappy if you ask me.;)
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  2. September 14, 2004 4:03 AM
    MrGaribaldi said:
    Interesting...But what about movies? They seem to be shared freely, so I'm not sure if the MPAA will like this too much...
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  3. September 15, 2004 10:27 AM
    Unregistered said:
    [quote][i]Originally posted by Phantasm66 [/i]Sounds like its kind of crappy if you ask me.;) [/quote] what makes it sound "crappy". I used it and within a few minutes was sharing songs with my friends. The instant gratification of hearing the MP3 worked for me. I agree it would be cooler if I could also download MP3s.[SIZE=1][color=red]Edited: Language[/SIZE] [/color]
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