Hello!

It feels good to be back here it was a while since the last time I was here.!

This is the story:

Some of you veterans here on the forum might remember my popular post I wrote back in July(Seems to be deleted by now) about me beeing a victim of an Interdiction attack from Warner Music.Meaning they started downloading lots of files at the same time to occupy all of my available upload slots so that no one else could download from me.It is a part of the record industrys last attempt to cause disturbance on Gnutella.Now it turned out to be more then that they where gathering evidence in an attempt to get me off line.They later contacted my ISP which resulted in that my ISP started spying on my connection.And when they found out that about 6000MB of data left my computer every day they decided to send me a notification about it and told me that it is in violation of their Terms of Use to use your connection for server purposes and that if I did not stop with my activitys they would be forced to shut me down.So I was forced to significantly cut down on the number of files I was sharing and create a system with lots of new folders(Shared Directorys) with maximum 100 files in each so that the amount of data that left my computer would not cause attention.And then shift between one folder at the time(I changed the Shared Directory/folder about once a week) so that all of my 6000 files still becomes available on the network just not all of them at once.

I have now moved to a different location and no longer uses that ISP instead I am on a ordinary Modem connection temporarily and I expect to get broadband again early next year.I will definetly change ISP and not use the same as before.

This problem would not have occured if WM did not notify my ISP of my activitys.So it seems that RIAA and Media Enforcer and the big five labels etc are turning the screws harder against big sharers that provides 90% of the content on Gnutella and other filesharing networks.This is potentionally becoming a major problem on Gnutella that can have a big effect because if many big sharers stop sharing and some of them starts to share less then the network will loose lots of its good contents and that will lead to loss of users because they no longer find the stuff they are looking for and then it becomes an evil spiral and Gnutella will die.

It is definetly time that all of you Gnutella developers out there starts working on the anonymity issue on Gnutella.Especially different measures to prevent anyone from finding out someones true IP number is important.

I hope that the future of Gnutella is a bright one!Cause I sure love it!

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<img src="http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/blob16.gif">Sincerely Joakim Agren!