GSoC: Amarok2Amarok

[Mark Kretschmann]

On 4/14/08, Alex Kosenkov <alex.kosenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anybody who is interested in this proposal and has necessary
> knowledge to support or become a mentor of this project?
>
> Main goals:
> 1. Development of a break-down-protected sharing network.
>  2. Providing an ability for users to stream content stored by other users
> of Amarok.
>  3. Increase the download speed.
>
> Application is available at GSoC and through this url:
>
> http://psj.nsu.ru/gsoc.html
>
> formal use-case illustration:
> http://psj.nsu.ru/additional.htm

Alex, to be quite honest with you, none of us devs thinks that this is
a particularly good idea. The goal seems to be turning Amarok into
something like a filesharing client, which invites all sorts of legal
issues.

Additionally I foresee technical issues with the implementation.

-- 
Mark