Well, I guess I found out why the selecton here sucks. With my files making up normally 10% of what is connected in the statistics, I am beyond frustrated at not only the lack of files, but the lack of the few files that I find, few if any download at all. What are we suppose to do now??? Why should I stay & make this better, if there is nothing to make better? Where are other post Audio Galaxy users going to find the music they can't find on Limewire/Gnutella???

Here is the info: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/is...dar/index.html

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An extensive analysis of user traffic on Gnutella shows a significant amount of free riding in the system. By sampling messages on the Gnutella network over a 24-hour period, we established that almost 70% of Gnutella users share no files, and nearly 50% of all responses are returned by the top 1% of sharing hosts. Furthermore, we found out that free riding is distributed evenly between domains, so that no one group contributes significantly more than others, and that peers that volunteer to share files are not necessarily those who have desirable ones. We argue that free riding leads to degradation of the system performance and adds vulnerability to the system. If this trend continues copyright issues might become moot compared to the possible collapse of such systems.