TrustyFiles
 |
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for products and services. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (August 2009) |
|
|
This article may contain original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding references. Statements consisting only of original research may be removed. More details may be available on the talk page. (August 2009) |
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2006) |
| Developer(s) | ReGet Software |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.0 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Peer-to-peer file sharing |
| License | closed source |
| Website | TrustyFiles.com |
TrustyFiles is a closed source Microsoft Windows-based peer-to-peer client which connects to the Gnutella, Gnutella2, FastTrack, eDonkey, Overnet and BitTorrent network protocols.
It is notable for the claims against it that it has “stolen” code from the open source Gnucleus, giFT, and avilib projects, which was discovered by disassembling the program, and the response was rapid release of another version with the offending code still remaining, however it was obscured by compressing the executable.
TrustyFiles then claimed that it was developing and would release an open source Linux version, however this has still not happened.
TrustyFiles offers a free version of their software which does not include Harmful IP Block, Updates, Removal of TrustyFiles advertisers, Technical Support and no enhanced performance, unlike their commercial version which costs $29. TrustyFiles also claims to be the only peer-to-peer client that can download a file simultaneously from both BitTorrent and the other P2P networks to which it is connected. However, Shareaza and LimeWire also have this feature.
Links on the website as well as some minor changes followed by the release of v3.0 of the software suggest an agreement with the RIAA respectively an attac by an associated company similar to what happened to the Shareaza.com domain and the Lphant filesharing client.
[edit] External links
- TrustyFiles.com — Official website.
 |
This network-related software article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
