Audi movies available via iMesh service

Brett Dikeman quattro at brettd.dsl.speakeasy.net
Sun Mar 18 16:34:30 EST 2001


This is actually on-topic...via a new peer-to-peer service,
iMesh(www.imesh.com; the client is available from CNET downloads, NOT
imesh.com, so if you just want to grab the client, go to CNET; I think
they're download.com), I've made available a bunch of the movies off
RS4.org, and a bunch of others I had hanging around.  I've also made an
effort to seek out new Audi/Quattro movies on iMesh, and have them
available on my system.

iMesh is kind of spiffy; the more people that have a file, the faster the
download you'll get(up to, of course, the max speed of your
connection.)  iMesh rates files by how "accessible" they are(4 stars=very
accessible, 1 star=forget about it.)  If iMesh finds 3 people that have
the same file, and who have available upload slots, you'll get the file
from all three.  So, search for all things Audi/Quattro, mirror them on
your system...if you have the capability to digitize some Audi
commercials, iMesh would be a great way to put 'em up.  Let me know if you
do, and I'll also host them via my iMesh account.

If you don't get the file immediately, just be patient, leave the iMesh
client running if you have a dedicated connection, and come back a few
hours later, you'll have the file.  As iMesh takes off and they improve
their directory servers, the service should get really interesting...and,
rumor has it, they're an Israeli company, and the Israeli courts, in
BigForeignCo vs LittleIrsaeliCo, has been supposedly very
citizen-friendly...so the hope is that certain big "associations" won't be
able to go after them.

Kind of funny.  People with usernames like "Dave_TT" have been going after
the Audi stuff :-)

Remember, the key here is to leave content on your machine if you have the
disk space and the bandwidth to allow a few people to download from your
system; if everybody did this, downloads would be incredibly fast yet
individual load on each person's connection would be very low.  It's like
RAID for peer-to-peer services :-)

Brett




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