Number of online friends are falling steadily and I rarely have more than 10 friends online even though I have about 200 friends. File Sharing are now prevented to a large extent as supply of files is strictly limited.
Will Oneswarm continue to live or is it about to die out.
I don't know, I just begin ...
I just recently joined..
At least according to the stats we keep, things have been pretty stable lately.
The thing is WHEN "the evil ones" will be able to get the users behind the IPs and sue them things will take off very quickly. More and more users will go over to Oneswarm.
@SDay
Greetings am a noob to using Oneswarm have it installed and seems to be running fine, am getting pretty much the same speed I do using Bittorent. I am also using it w/Peer Block and am on a VPN as well so as to give due respect to "the evil ones".
Do you know if one could expect privacy protection when down and up loading public torrents like for example, a URL from TPB?
OneSwarm only protects your privacy when you download files you find by:
1. Using the built in search
2. Browsing files shared by your friends.
If you look at the transfers page in the UI, all transfers in the "Friend-to-Friend" tab are protected. Transfers in the "Public" tab are using normal bittorrent.
You can change the privacy setting of a specific file by selecting a swarm and choosing "visibility" from the "more actions" menu.
Thank you for your response. When looking at Peer Block as doing a public DL there seems to be either way fewer or none at all of the usual torrent bounty hunters on the IP Block list and that usually is a good thing but cannot explain it so far as I have just done a few test DLs today.
OneSwarm just got a writeup in BoingBoing today (it's why I'm here) so I'd imagine out of a few hundred thousand readers, I'm not the only brand new user. :D
BoingBoing story: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/25/oneswarm-freeopen-bi.html
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