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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by CamZak:
After installing and running it is was blown away.. There's over 100 TBs of stuff, but the downloads are slow. And you get non-stop searches for filth that jam up your downloads.
Then I got to thinking, why not put a filter in a client, that filters out searches of text that a user has pre-specified, and then drops the search so it won't get sent any further to other computers, thus saving about %50 of the bandwidth for legit purposes.</font>
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You all, and by all I would like to include each post in this topic, have missed the point. The whole point of Gnutella was free distribution of data, and filters will change that. Who decides what is 'legitimate', who should dictate what searches should be passed along?
Also, on a more serious note, what will keep a record company from sticking dummy clients in the network? These dummy clients applying filtering technology could filter part, or all search requests. Such things, to me, are unacceptable, especially when you think about what Gnutella really means.