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>The system isn’t up and running yet, but the idea is that users will receive free storage for their files by sharing some hard drive space and bandwidth with other users.

This is how Wuala works, if I understand correctly. And let's not forget AeroFS. While these products are somewhat similar, I absolutely love seeing apps of this nature (syncing distributed P2P) proliferate.

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Is AeroFS even alive? Waiting a few weeks or months for an early product to be perfected is fine, but it's been more than a year. This is ridiculous.

AeroFS want users to invite their friends to put themselves higher on an invite list... For a product that will use MY hard drive space and bandwidth.

I've been using it on my computers as well as with a friend for at least a few months now — it works pretty well. And it uses disk space only to store your own files plus those that others share with you, the same as Dropbox.

Agreed - I loved the concept, but couldn't get it to work the way I needed it to, even with the main dev's help. (It took weeks to sync a 50GB folder over a gigabit lan, it wouldn't properly recognize the folder if I rsync'd it first - it duplicated everything)

So I abandoned it for now, until such time that it got more mature and worked for me -- but I just visited the site a few days ago, and saw its still private beta. Though looking again just now, I found the changelogs: http://support.aerofs.com/customer/portal/articles/240198-ae...

and it looks very relevant to my issue, so I may have to give it a try again!

I'm complaining that I never got an invite, even after an entire year! I emailed the devs a few weeks back and never got a response.

I want to use their product! If their product is good, I'll tell my friends. Not before I've even tried it.

Didn't Wuala drop P2P trading?

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