File Sharing - Peer to Peer
General:
CPU cycle sharing for general good
folding proteins
Media Sharing Software:
Grokster is gone, but no loss as better alternatives. I tried it for a few months way back and it caused problems.
I tried MyNapster and it big brother Gnucleus (open source and ad free) instead which uses the Gnutella network. I found people set up client to serve up false files to search requests that contian webpage redirect from MPEG/MP3 files. Gnucleus comes with a screen out list of know nodes that do this, and both can add IP manually.
Also Gnutella network does not it seems have ability to add file info, keywords and description other than in file name, which means searchs tend to bring up files that have been created to be picked up in searchs, which are not necessary the files you want. I seem to get better search results with Grokster. But Gnutella is more durable a network in long term.
Having moved to using Linux I started to use GTK-gnutella but now use amule
other p2p clients
Video file sharing
If you want to share high quality large video which can be freely distributed legally then check out v2v.cc and IndyPeer
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Players:
FooBar 2000