Blubster 2.5 promises anonymous downloads, RIAA protection

30 Jun 03 14:59 by DoMiN8ToR in category Uncategorized To news archive

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Blubster 2.5 promises anonymous downloads for
its users. The music sharing service based in Spain has developed a new
technology that should protect its users from being traced by organisations like
the RIAA. The secure, decentralized network of href="http://www.blubster.com" target=_new> size=2>Blubster has currently about 100.000
users connected any time and the users share over 20 million songs. The software
has support for both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files, supports multi source
downloading, and support for web-links. The new secure transer system can best
be explained like this:

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width=211 align=right border=0>If other means of delivering media files
could be compared to a postal system with an identifiable sender and
receiver, then Blubster’s proprietary MP2P network could be likened to
throwing a bottled message into the vast ocean,” said Pablo Soto. “The
message may get to a destination, but no one knows the full path of its
journey nor what is in each bottle.”

The
software has been praised by many even before this release, but has a large
disadvantage. The software is bundeld with the much hated Gator software which
is considered one of the worst spyware applications available on the
internet. Make sure you can opt-out for this software. More information
and downloads can be found on the target=_new>Blubster Website.

Source: Blubster

5 Comments

Phr0gster: Posts: 47; Posted on: 30 Jun 03 17:55

Blubster Lite anyone?

Music Pirate: Posts: 2; Posted on: 30 Jun 03 17:59

Blubster at one time was a great piece of software. Sometime back the creator Pablo Soto parted ways with his partners due difference. Pablo owns the code for the software and the protocol that it uses. So he create a new software called Piolet, www.piolet.com, which was going to be the new Blubster 2.0 at the time. But the company that owns Blubster has now bundled it with spyware Gator. Blubster from what I have seen doesn't have any improvement or anything new. So I would suggestion to get Piolet, created by the same guy who created Blubster and doesn't have spyware in it.

compu44: Posts: 341; Posted on: 01 Jul 03 05:43

download speeds and search results on piolet and blubster seem to be very good. it's a shame that it's music only.

debro: Posts: 11638; Posted on: 01 Jul 03 12:42

I dunno if anyone noticed, but the gator software can be provented from being started by renaming the exe's and renaming some .txt files to the exe's names. Checks for the software only seem to check that the executables are there, and not the file sizes

icepax: Posts: 189; Posted on: 01 Jul 03 15:04

yeah, it works when you renaming files. Oh well, next release GATOR will do a CRC check to run the files even though they are renamed.

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