Real Time Gnutella Visualization

brett42 writes "Some students at Berkeley wrote a python program that connects to the Gnutella network and maps out connections between nodes in real time. " I gotta say thats pretty smooth. Hopefully future gnutella clients will incorporate something like this just for the time wasting potential of watching the graph wiggle while seeing what porn others are searching for.

Oh Wonderful...

[elroyjenkins]

...so soon Ill have to wait 4 hours instead of 2 for the latest Dave Matthews single. Gotta love wasted cpu cycles and bandwith....

Man, I want to go to Berkley

[Rob.Mathers]

Seems like you can d/l a lot of P2P porn, and get credit for it :P

Now what would be really interesting

[rcs1000]

Is if this kind of technology was used for a new kind of music chart:

Top 100 pirated songs!

It would be doubly interesting to see if the same songs which were top of the 'real' charts, were also the top of the Gnutella charts. Maybe we could catch the record companies that buy their own records to boost their positions in the charts red-handed.

*r

Re:It is one thing to..

[Mr.Phil]

I don't think you had any chance to see what he ment on that post. I had to download the AVI so I could see... it's (wait for it)

2HotBlondeTeensInWhiteKneeHighs&BlackHeelsDoDike St uffOnBed.mpg

Gosh, we really should thank Bill for implementing LONG filenames in Windows! I'd never be able to figure out what 2HotBl~1.mpg was.

OMG! Taco used "porn" instead of "pr0n"...YES!

[Anonymous Coward]

Our efforts are paying off in fighting this disease called "l33t speak".

In out time, we'll wipe out this idiotic, hacker wanna-be, script kiddie morons who think they're special when they type things like a moron.

But we must remain vigilant!

Porn Analysis.

[saintlupus]

potential of watching the graph wiggle while seeing what porn others are searching for

This is already a fairly interesting utility. Turn on the "view search" option on your favorite gnutella client (Limewire on OS X for me) and check out how specific people's porn searches can be.

"Asian nurse enema big boobs midget amputee smoking."

I guess there really is something for everyone on this new fangled internet thing.

--saint

Re:more bandwidth?

[Scutter]

These file sharing programs are such hogs, do you need *that* much pr0n?

Uh, *yeah*! Frankly, if you have to ask, you'll never understand. :)