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Old 05-07-2003, 11:38 AM   #19
WillowIX
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Join Date: July 10, 2001
Location: By a big blue lake, Canada
Age: 51
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Actually, I'm not very up on it at all, Willow. What exactly do you mean by p2p software? Software that lets one CPU view another. Sorry .... I really am not trolling, but am uninformed.

Now, if you are telling me that Morpheus exists for some reason other than letting people swap copyrighted or licensed material or hacks for such material, I must say I am dubious. Which is why they're coming under fire from the lawyers.
Andrewas can probably explain it better than me but your computer acts as both a client and a server. Now I agree that most people use this kind of software to download copyrighted material. But downloading copyrighted material is not illegal in all countries. Sharing is though. My hubby uses direct connect, I assume itīs called that since lethoso typed that, to get game patches and freeware (download speed about 1-2Mb/s instead of 10-500kB/s from the internet). You see the possibilities? And since he is in the computer software business I can tell you he sends out a lot of angry PMs a day.
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