as if apple wasn't about to release the sdk for their protocol... people get all freaked out because of a few cool utilities such as iLeech, ShareiTunes and iSuck. really, can't people understand? freaking calm down... damn now i really wanna go buy an iPod.
from iLeech website:
iLeech May 15, 2003:
All I can say is "Wow". In my wildest dreams I would not have imagined the reaction/attention my simple little Java/Cocoa application would receive. When I initially released it, I had honestly never imagined more than a couple of dozen people would be interested in it. Call me naive if you will, but that is the truth on my end.
iLeech appears to be the talk of the 'community', for both positive and negative reasons. I have no problems with people stating their feelings on the application, but I would kindly ask people refrain from taking cheap shots at me personally. A lot of what I've read, some people have resorted to what is essentially slander, and while I would never pursue that in a court of law... I would ask those to please keep their feelings about iLeech relegated to the application itself, and not about me personally. If you do decide to continue taking shots at me personally, so be it. There is nothing I can do to stop that, however I do kindly ask that you refrain.
Due to the flood of emails I've received regarding this application, both positive and negative, I have decided to take a few days off from development while I reevaluate the project. Now please realize, this isn't due to pressure from those who against the project. This isn't due to pressure from lobbyist organizations. This isn't due to me caving in to anybody. Again, when I had written this application, I had never imagined the attention it would receive. I would like to take the next few days to reevalutate if this project is worth continuing, in regards to both development aspects, and my personal involvement responding to people (on both sides of the fence), etc. I hope people can understand my decision to do this and can be patient for the next couple of days. And again please understand... For the people that are against this project, you haven't "won" anything. And for the people that are supportive of the project, you haven't "lost". This is just time to allow me to reevaluate the time I want to put into the project from this point forward.
Regardless of the outcome, I'm 99% confident I will still release v0.3 on Saturday (day behind schedule). I'm quite proud of the cleanup that has taken place, as well as some of the other features that have been implemented. It's been fun learning Cocoa/Java (which there is such a lack of existing examples for).
And if I do decide to stop further development of iLeech, the content that has been posted here on Source Forge will remain (v0.1, v0.2, v0.25, etc). If I do stop, somebody can gladly step up and take over administration/development of the project.
Check back Saturday, May 17th for the 'verdict' (so to speak) and iLeech v0.3.
Also as a helpful hint for the people that are against the project... I read on one Mac message board, a thread that related to an LA Times article about people 'exploiting' iTunes v4.0 to copy songs. The article never mentioned applications specifically, but in the thread on the Mac site, people that were against iLeech made specific mention to it (in some cases providing URLs). You have probably done more damage to your cause than good. People that were reading that thread that were ignorant to the applications available (and iLeech certainly isn't the only one) now knew of a specific application to download. Remember: there is no such thing as bad publicity. I understand your stance on the application, but making specific references to it only helps those who you wish to stop.
And here are some various links with discussion about iLeech (and other applications):
http://www.macslash.org/articles/03/05/15/0320251.shtml
http://www.kottke.org/03/05/030514itunes_4_is_.html
http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/track.asp?id=5547898
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25766
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/14/ituneshole/
http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=367561
http://www.avantbard.com/blog/archives/000177.html
http://www.daypop.com/top/
http://www.de-bug.de/news/1565.html
http://techlawadvisor.blogspot.com/
http://www.nypost.com/technology/75803.htm
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2003/05/14
http://www.kluivers.com/joris/weblog/
http://alfredo.octavio.net/
http://daily.linnwood.org/yesterday/2003/05/13.html#000388
http://www.macnn.com/news/19461
http://www.thebenesch.com/iTunesComments.html
http://www.muxway.org/
http://www.ihateapple.com/forums/show.asp?id=125767&fid=12&tid=0
http://www.capndesign.com/archives/2003_05/001516.php
http://widepipe.org/
http://www.reinvigorate.net/archive/index.php?p=home (Registration Required)
http://www.rocktober.com/blog.html
http://greenehouse.blogspot.com/
http://iwalt.com/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134738808_appleglitch15.html
http://www.irdial.com/cgi-bin/suckpage.cgi
http://agent57.gbnet.net/~jrg/urls/urls.20030515.html
http://www.superdeluxo.com/
http://www.submitresponse.co.uk/mt/
http://www.the37.com/cgi-bin/iB3/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=743;st=135;&#entry144
http://beconfident.cjb.net/ (In Korean)
http://dfwwireless.org/listarchive/msg00714.html
http://www.twinblog.com/ (In Dutch)
http://bored.cc/replies.php?action=view&record=16458
http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/
http://meettheg.com/
http://development.petrolink.net/W32/Blog.nsf/navblogs/2003-05-15!opendocument
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=126568;article=46857
http://www.neverthink.com/weblog_archives/individual/2003/05/loony_itunes.shtml
http://www.macfreak.org/cgi/forums/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=841
Download iLeech
iLeech v0.28 Binary (74k - May 15, 2003)
iLeech v0.28 Source (64k - May 15, 2003)
Perl script to dump an iTunes v4.0 shared playlist into a human readable file. (3k)
Contact Me: Well take note during my brief hiatus, I won't respond to any emails. So please don't get offended if you don't get a reply from me for a couple of days. But if you must send me an email, you can send it to subuni@users.sourceforge.net
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