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OpenNap suffered the same fate as Napster, closing shop after being threatened by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA, but it’s now being brought back to life as OpenNap 2.0 and is  slated to start development next year, said p2pet at the start of the month, also noting:

“But only if it satisfies the RIAA.”

Many (most?) p2pnet readers were, well, just a little skeptical.

Observed Spike »»»

The OpenNap protocol was never shut down, contrary to what the “revival” states. Some OpenNap/SlavaNap servers still exist, look for them on http://gotnap.com
I still connect to a certain OpenNap server to speak to all my oldtime online friends (known for 10+ years to this day).

This “revival” looks to be some kind of joke, its as if some idiot got access to the original OpenNap sourceforge account somehow.

“Looks like utter bullshit to me, especially the removal of former packages,” said another comment. “Anyway, there are plenty of copies on ftp servers all around the world, and there’s still an updated fork of OpenNap at http://opennap-ng.sourceforge.net/.”

Said Biff »»»

Here they say “Original downloads of the OpenNap protcol have been removed and destroyed to comply with the RIAA legal challenge. No attempt will be made to use the original code.” Yet on the revamped page at opennap.sourceforge.net, they say “We also wish to acknowledge the work of DrScholl. He was the original programmer and developer of the original OpenNap. Without this work we couldn’t proceed on a new version.” Not using the original code?

Be sure to go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennap/ and leave a nice, cheesy honest review!

Quartz said he had, “archived copies of opennap software and src’s from 3 years ago when I decided no “’midnight bureaucrat’ was going to steal anything from me in terms of big brother style historical reworkings and disappearing software, continuing »»»

This has more the look of a hijacked page than any real substance to it it , the grammar is poor and as for the protocol if they are changing it then its not opennap its a cheap knock off, I know hundreds of opennap users and they are probably lauging at this lame attempt to hijack the name of the network they use by some group of riaa suck-ups.
For those who don’t understand what open nap is its whats called a centralised network because all the indexing is done by a single users machine and thus such networks have fallen out of favour after a few folks where sued for being the server operator some years ago, its still alive as a semi-underground network and using the slavanap software folk have been able to lock their servers together to create a bigger network, however in legal terms they are a liability as the server operator is directly facilitating infringement and a court can be shown he is able to see who s downloading what and when so if there is some effort to improve that aspect I,m all for it but then be sure we shouldn’t call it opennap and nor should it be centralised in the current fashion.

Responded OpenNap Devel

First I wish to address that we are aware of problems on the page. There are problems yes. Is there going to be a rewrite, yes.

We have not hijacked the domain. We are members of sourceforge and wanted to do something about an application which was not updated in a long time. There are going to be problems along the way.

If there are still systems using it then we want to know about it so that we can post it on our page. We also want to contribute updates for those programs using it. Over the weekend we have made some changes which may appease some of you. While we recognize that we cannot appease everyone, we will do what we can to make sure that everyone knows our real intent.

In the next few weeks we will be releasing updated versions of the OpenNap program. Beginning with version 0.44.1 which we took apart and cleaned it up. We made it more compatible with today’s compilers and made it a bit faster. We have no plans right now to include anything new until we start development on version 0.50. For reference purposes we have 0.44 still on the code and have restored the original link.

There’s also complaints that we didn’t recognize DRScholls work. We did and have such have made it clear that his name must be associated with any updates as well as documentation.

We will also merge it with OpenNap NG. We don’t know if it’s still being updated but if it is we can and will use it. From there we will proceed with the updates.

All of us take this project seriously. This is not a “LAME JOKE” to use this name and have it mean something else. We want to do this and make it work for everyone. If you wish to help out on this project then help out.

And then, on Thursday, “”As of November 26, OpenNap will be shut down,” said OpenNap Devel, adding:

” You win but in a way we all lose. I’ve taken the liberty of removing all technical information from the page as well as the source code. While the code is still circulating out there, the original page housing it will be taken down.

“Sorry you think it was a joke but then again, I guess we have the last laugh afteral

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