Why did ed2k die? It's one of the handful of truly p2p networks,

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2016-05-10 14:31:02 Post No. 54477821
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:31:02 Post No. 54477821 [Report]

Why did ed2k die? It's one of the handful of truly p2p networks, no hubs, content indexing servers or trackers needed.
I can understand normies moving to torrents and DDL as they're only interested in the latest summer blockbuster or Kanye album and those offer faster speeds, but those services offer no file longevity at all. It's next to impossible to find a 3 year old torrent that still has seeds on public trackers, private ones aren't much better. File hosting sites are even more volatile, it's usually pointless to check links posted more than a couple of months ago.
Meanwhile I just fired up emule and a file I uploaded ~10 years ago is still there with 4 full sources. Sure it would probably download at 5 KB/s but I would get it eventually if I really wanted it. Is that not worth anything anymore?

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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:33:24 Post No.54477848
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:33:24 Post No.54477848 [Report]

>>54477821
i miss that donkey :^(

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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:34:23 Post No.54477861
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:34:23 Post No.54477861 [Report]

>>54477821
There's only one reason anyone still uses it, and it's not for muh music and movies.

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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:35:58 Post No.54477874
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:35:58 Post No.54477874 [Report]

>>54477821
i just use soulseek

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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:41:01 Post No.54477934
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:41:01 Post No.54477934 [Report]

>>54477821
>Why did ed2k die?
Because it was the mail order version of P2P.

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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:43:57 Post No.54477961
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Anonymous 2016-05-10 14:43:57 Post No.54477961 [Report]

>>54477861
Well yeah after combing the internet for 2 days for a rip of a porn site from 2004 I started up emule in an act of desperation, and of course it's there. It's like an archive of everything you remember fapping to as a kid but can't find anywhere beyond a couple of screens and links to dead file sites.