Allpeers - P2P through FF

[kev woodman]

Site " allpeers.com " looks quite interesting.

It's a FF extension that allows you to create buddy lists of contacts and then share files with them using encrypted Bittorrent transfers.

Handy if you regularly need to swap files that are too large for email.

[paul]

Email and IRC is more than sufficient right now to me, but I would be interested if they add chat and VOIP functionality in near future.

[kev woodman]

I've only had a quick look this morning but the intention, I think, is to enable users to build up a private P2P network. I can think of a number of ways in which I could use this, particularly with friends/family who aren't tech-minded enough to use IRC.

Email just isn't an option for a lot of P2P stuff, even with Gmail, file size limits are pretty low and lots of file types are screened out.

It's more like the MSN shared folders idea - without the potential worry of transferring the stuff via and an MS app.

Obviously we're only talking about legal stuff here