as title, which peer to peer community options are there and how would you rate them?

Gareth 'got adsl yesterday and downloaded 0.5 gb of rubbish already'

The only decent p2p community out there is Direct Connect, but you need to find a decent hub network. Since the demise of -=E.V.I.L.=- it has gone downhill in terms on community value.

Kazza etc are not really classed as a community, its just a straight forward file sharing program. There is no real interaction with a community.

The best overall communitys are on IRC. Not only for the spirit of it, but also because it helps people learn a bit to. If you wanna take a step into programming, why not start on scripting for IRC clients. Loads of fun to be had with them.

Agree with the above. In addition to Direct Connect I also use Listbox, E-Donkey2000, Kazaa Lite, mIRC and a few FTP forums.

I've been keeping clear of P2P but have you seen these articles?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3095181.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3095385.stm
(see 3rd paragraph after 'Cash Call'

Do you have to be sharing hundreds of MB's of files for direct connect?

Bit torrent mail me if interersted.

Si

I use winmx but i did like the look of direct Connect, but when i tried to use it, it told me i need to share 40Gb.

So it would not connect.

Chel xxx