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by BurningCycles 2121 days ago
Anyone know what the state of the network is these days ? I haven't used it for at least 8+ years, I remember servers drying up but with kademlia that's not really a problem.
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I have to think a lot of people left it behind because of all of the malware that was masquerading as something else.
Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ?

Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the network is.

> Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right?

From what I recall of the time when these networks were popular, that wasn't the case; there was some way to make Windows Media Player download malicious executable files when playing a video file.