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https://sourceforge.net/projects/konspire/
http://konspire.sourceforge.net/

A peer-to-peer file sharing program which instead lets you subscribe to people to get files in a “sink-discovery” system.

Had a lot of potential, and is significantly better than other systems and programs. Was stillborn.

• I know I used this in 2003, but I used it earlier than that.

• Its first betas were released in 2000.

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• https://sourceforge.net/p/konspire/bugs/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/konspire/feature-requests/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/konspire/mailman/konspire-developer/

• http://konspire.cvs.sourceforge.net/

What it is ∞

• http://konspire.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?short_description_of_konspire2b

• http://konspire.sourceforge.net/revolution.shtml

For the first time in human history, an individual could distribute high-quality content to a massive audience without expending large amounts of time, money, or other resources.

with other file sharing apps, you ∞

1. figure out what you want to look for
2. come up with search terms to describe what you’re looking for
3. run a search
4. wait for search results to trickle back
5. repeat steps 2 through 4 until you get search results
6. comb through a list of possible downloads
7. start a download
8. repeat steps 6 and 7 until you find a source that is not [behind a firewall, swamped, fake]
9. repeat steps 6 through 8 until you find a source that doesn’t cut you off mid-download
10. check out the file that you downloaded

11. repeat steps 1 through 10 until you find a file that you actually like

with konspire2b-based apps, you ∞

1. subscribe to channels that match your interests
2. go to bed
3. wake up in the morning to the files that have arrived on your subscribed channels
4. feel certain that the files are legit, thanks to konspire2b’s heavy-duty, automatic, digital signatures
5. unsubscribe from channels that disappoint you
6. build trust for a channel owner’s tastes over time (owners are completely responsible for what goes out on their channels)
7. spend the time that you used to spend searching doing other less frustrating things (see 8 for a suggestion)

8. start a channel to broadcast your own files