To some extent, uploads in Share are automatic. You place files in your uploads folders, Share establishes a connection with one neighbouring node, and slowly uploads the files to it. On the Nodes screen, this is the node labeled Diffuse Up at the bottom of the active nodes list.
If you want to upload a particular file to the network for others to download, you can help the process along in a number of ways. One approach is to go to the Uploads tab, and click the Turbo button. This pauses all your downloads and uploads, and causes Share to focus on uploads to one or two neighbouring nodes. On the nodes screen, you will notice that Share Up stops, and you may get a second Diffuse Up node. Next, go to Queries, and run a Search for the file in your uploads folder that you want to upload. You may notice at this point that not all of the files in your uploads folder have been added to the Upload screen. You right-click on the file you want, and choose "Add to upload." In the Upload window, if it doesn't say transferring next to the file, you may have to move the file to a special express uploads folder, and delete all your other upload folders from the Folders window. In the status bar, it will tell you your upload speed, and in the Upload window, it will tell you how many blocks it has completed. After the file has been uploaded to another node, the filename should turn orange in Queries, and you can shut off Turbo.
Another slower method to upload a file is to right-click on it in Queries, and choose Convert. The file will pop up in the Tasks window, and rapidly be converted into an encrypted file in your Cache. You have to be careful with this feature though because if you are near the quota you set for Cache in your folder window, Share may inadvertently delete sections of the files you have already downloaded in order to stay within that quota. Once a file has been converted to Cache, Share will automatically upload it to neighbouring nodes through Diffuse Up. As it uploads, you may find the size of files in your cache folder shrinking. Share just seems to be freeing up space that is no longer needed.
If you want to shut down Share, but haven't finished the upload, you might want to move the original file out of your uploads folder, so that when Share restarts, it will pick up where it left off, uploading the file, rather than creating a new entry for the file in LinkCache.
Usually once you have uploaded a file once, Share will refuse to upload the same file again. You can get around this though by using a plugin like DiffusionProClone.
File name: [Share Plugin] [PDK10] DiffusionProClone_r006改3.zip
ID: ZacbaranTwkXBMCKeN
File Size: 235,021 bytes
a349d919fb08751f062d909fc4d733b54b6b17d3
Unzip it into the Plugins folder in your Share folder under Program Files. In Share, click on Settings, Plugins, Add and then navigate to the DiffusionProClone.dll file. In your Tools menu, you will now see an item marked DiffusionProClone. You click on 有効 to turn it on. DiffusionProClone is designed to be used in conjunction with Turbo to speed things up. Other upload plugins include UpOnly and AutoUploadPlugin. (Incidentally, all of them are designed to block Retina Sharebot from tracing your upload).
Showing posts with label Share EX2. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Share EX2 Guide - Set up and downloading
Share is a Japanese peer-to-peer file sharing client and network for Windows, based on a similar model to the English program Freenet and Japanese Winny. Share is perhaps best known as a network where fans of new anime, Jdramas, manga, movies and adult videos gather. For new files with multiple sources, Share is one of the fastest clients out there. Share allows you to copy filenames to the clipboard for checking in search engines, and if you have the hash for a file, you do not need to know how to read Japanese.
You can download the latest version of Share, EX2, from Share P2P or P2P ファイル共有ソフトノード登録所. You can download English locale and hint files to replace the Japanese ones from Serika's Share web site on uguu.org.
Create a Share folder in Program Files, unzip Share EX2 to there, and then replace the locale and hint files. If you get a runtime error when starting the program, run msconfig, untick your antivirus and firewall applications, restart Windows, start Share EX2, and then turn your antivirus and firewall back on.
Next, you should set up your cluster words. Every Share user chooses up to five cluster words, and these help decide which nodes Share connects to. Click on Settings, Clusters, type in a cluster word, and click Add. The most popular cluster words are AV, DVDISO, アニメ (anime), アプリ (application), 映画 (movie), 無修正 (uncensored), iso, ドラマ (drama) and コミック (comics). If you choose five of these, that should get you connected to a wide range of computers. You can always change your cluster words later when looking for videos with a different theme. Click in the boxes next to the five you want, and then click OK.
Next, Settings, Profile, Settings, type in a Nickname and Password, and click "change key." This will set your ID. On the Network tab, input your upstream and downstream limits. You have to set both for a minimum of 50KB/s, but actually the main thing this seems to affect is the reported speed in the nodes window. Share has no internal bandwidth throttle.
On the same dialog box, choose a port number in the 10000 to 65000 range, and set your software or router firewall to allow TCP connections in and out for that same port. If you are using the Windows XP SP2 firewall, click on Start, Settings, Control Panel, Windows Firewall, Exceptions and then Add Port, ie. the same number as you typed into Share - Settings - Network. EX2 is TCP only, so you don't have to worry about UDP. You can leave Performance, Action and Quota the way they are. Hit OK.
Next, you need a node list. A node is just the encrypted IP address of a computer running Share. You actually need only one active node, and then Share will automatically download the rest, and store them in the nodes.db file. There are node lists at: Benri-tool, P2P ファイル共有ソフトノード登録所 and P2P Node Terminal. Be sure to use EX2 nodes if you are running the TCP version. The UDP version NT2 has its own nodes. Copy, and paste the nodes into Notepad, and save the file as nodes.txt into the Share folder. On the Nodes tab, click "Add node," then "Load from file," browse to your nodes.txt file, and select it. Click "Add" and then "Close." Don't connect yet.
In Windows Explorer, in the Share folder, create two more folders, one called "Cache" and the other called "Download." Back in Share, switch to the Folders tab, click "Add folder," and add your new Cache and Download folders, setting a minimum quota of 4GBs for cache. For "Upload," browse to, and select the folder where the files you want to upload are stored. You can choose to share anything from a single file on up, but the more files you share, the longer it will take for Share to check them all.
Once you are all ready, restart Share, and then on the Nodes screen, click connect. It will start trying each of the nodes in your list till it finds an active one, and then start downloading others, and checking them too. It may take a while for it to find nodes with clusters related to your interests, but once the Log tab tells you that you are connected, and your Global IP has been resolved, you can start setting up triggers to find the files you are interested in.
Next, you need to set up some triggers for files you want to download. You can search for Share hashes in the online database Share ファイル照会DB(試). If you have the hash for the file you want, click on the Triggers tab, "Add Trigger" and then paste the hash value into the Hash field, leaving "Add to DB only" unticked. You might want to set a minimum file size of 100 MBs to screen out text dummies or a maximum of 2000 MBs if you want to exclude ISOs. Click "Add." As soon as Share finds the file, it will automatically add it to your Download window, and start downloading. Share can only search for a limited number of triggers at a time, so don't create too many.
If you don't have a hash for the file you want, you can set up a trigger to get Share to add relevant search results to your DB. First, on the Triggers tab, click "Add Trigger," type words from the title into the Keyword blank, untick the "Delete matching query triggers" box, and add a tick to the "Add to DB only" box. Now Share will search the DB of all the nodes it connects to for that keyword, adding any matching filenames and hashes to your own DB. If you want to run an auto-download trigger, make sure you delete any "DB only" trigger with the same keywords. Otherwise, Share will just add the filename to the DB rather than starting the download.
Once you have added results to your DB, click on the Queries tab, and search your DB. If you can't read the file name, right click on the file, choose "Copy file name," and paste it into the text box on the Google Translate, select Japanese to English. Orange files are the easiest to download, white is neutral, light blue are the ones you are already downloading, and dark blue the ones in your upload folder. Red files are thought to be fakes. If you find a file you want, right-click on it, and choose "Add to Download." Occasionally, Share will refuse to add a download from either a trigger or the Queries window. If it's a trigger, run another Search in queries. If it's in Queries, set up a trigger for the hash. It usually works the second time.
In the Download window, you can follow the progress of your downloads. Order indicates the number of people in the queue ahead of you, and Status tells you the number of pieces that Share has managed to locate. Highest priority is given to the file numbered 0, but you can increase or decrease the priority by right-clicking on the file. The Tasks window shows you what files are being downloaded at the moment. When the download is complete, Share will convert it from Cache into a playable video, post a note in Tasks, and it will show up in your Download folder.
You can download the latest version of Share, EX2, from Share P2P or P2P ファイル共有ソフトノード登録所. You can download English locale and hint files to replace the Japanese ones from Serika's Share web site on uguu.org.
Create a Share folder in Program Files, unzip Share EX2 to there, and then replace the locale and hint files. If you get a runtime error when starting the program, run msconfig, untick your antivirus and firewall applications, restart Windows, start Share EX2, and then turn your antivirus and firewall back on.
Next, you should set up your cluster words. Every Share user chooses up to five cluster words, and these help decide which nodes Share connects to. Click on Settings, Clusters, type in a cluster word, and click Add. The most popular cluster words are AV, DVDISO, アニメ (anime), アプリ (application), 映画 (movie), 無修正 (uncensored), iso, ドラマ (drama) and コミック (comics). If you choose five of these, that should get you connected to a wide range of computers. You can always change your cluster words later when looking for videos with a different theme. Click in the boxes next to the five you want, and then click OK.
Next, Settings, Profile, Settings, type in a Nickname and Password, and click "change key." This will set your ID. On the Network tab, input your upstream and downstream limits. You have to set both for a minimum of 50KB/s, but actually the main thing this seems to affect is the reported speed in the nodes window. Share has no internal bandwidth throttle.
On the same dialog box, choose a port number in the 10000 to 65000 range, and set your software or router firewall to allow TCP connections in and out for that same port. If you are using the Windows XP SP2 firewall, click on Start, Settings, Control Panel, Windows Firewall, Exceptions and then Add Port, ie. the same number as you typed into Share - Settings - Network. EX2 is TCP only, so you don't have to worry about UDP. You can leave Performance, Action and Quota the way they are. Hit OK.
Next, you need a node list. A node is just the encrypted IP address of a computer running Share. You actually need only one active node, and then Share will automatically download the rest, and store them in the nodes.db file. There are node lists at: Benri-tool, P2P ファイル共有ソフトノード登録所 and P2P Node Terminal. Be sure to use EX2 nodes if you are running the TCP version. The UDP version NT2 has its own nodes. Copy, and paste the nodes into Notepad, and save the file as nodes.txt into the Share folder. On the Nodes tab, click "Add node," then "Load from file," browse to your nodes.txt file, and select it. Click "Add" and then "Close." Don't connect yet.
In Windows Explorer, in the Share folder, create two more folders, one called "Cache" and the other called "Download." Back in Share, switch to the Folders tab, click "Add folder," and add your new Cache and Download folders, setting a minimum quota of 4GBs for cache. For "Upload," browse to, and select the folder where the files you want to upload are stored. You can choose to share anything from a single file on up, but the more files you share, the longer it will take for Share to check them all.
Once you are all ready, restart Share, and then on the Nodes screen, click connect. It will start trying each of the nodes in your list till it finds an active one, and then start downloading others, and checking them too. It may take a while for it to find nodes with clusters related to your interests, but once the Log tab tells you that you are connected, and your Global IP has been resolved, you can start setting up triggers to find the files you are interested in.
Next, you need to set up some triggers for files you want to download. You can search for Share hashes in the online database Share ファイル照会DB(試). If you have the hash for the file you want, click on the Triggers tab, "Add Trigger" and then paste the hash value into the Hash field, leaving "Add to DB only" unticked. You might want to set a minimum file size of 100 MBs to screen out text dummies or a maximum of 2000 MBs if you want to exclude ISOs. Click "Add." As soon as Share finds the file, it will automatically add it to your Download window, and start downloading. Share can only search for a limited number of triggers at a time, so don't create too many.
If you don't have a hash for the file you want, you can set up a trigger to get Share to add relevant search results to your DB. First, on the Triggers tab, click "Add Trigger," type words from the title into the Keyword blank, untick the "Delete matching query triggers" box, and add a tick to the "Add to DB only" box. Now Share will search the DB of all the nodes it connects to for that keyword, adding any matching filenames and hashes to your own DB. If you want to run an auto-download trigger, make sure you delete any "DB only" trigger with the same keywords. Otherwise, Share will just add the filename to the DB rather than starting the download.
Once you have added results to your DB, click on the Queries tab, and search your DB. If you can't read the file name, right click on the file, choose "Copy file name," and paste it into the text box on the Google Translate, select Japanese to English. Orange files are the easiest to download, white is neutral, light blue are the ones you are already downloading, and dark blue the ones in your upload folder. Red files are thought to be fakes. If you find a file you want, right-click on it, and choose "Add to Download." Occasionally, Share will refuse to add a download from either a trigger or the Queries window. If it's a trigger, run another Search in queries. If it's in Queries, set up a trigger for the hash. It usually works the second time.
In the Download window, you can follow the progress of your downloads. Order indicates the number of people in the queue ahead of you, and Status tells you the number of pieces that Share has managed to locate. Highest priority is given to the file numbered 0, but you can increase or decrease the priority by right-clicking on the file. The Tasks window shows you what files are being downloaded at the moment. When the download is complete, Share will convert it from Cache into a playable video, post a note in Tasks, and it will show up in your Download folder.
Friday, March 14, 2008
A short history of file sharing in Japan
Updated to 2018
Although FTP, IRC and Usenet had come into use by the 1980's, it wasn't until the appearance of Shawn Fanning's Napster in 1999 that file sharing began to reach a mass audience. Napster was an application that users could download for free, which allowed them to browse, and download each other's mp3's. By February 2001, 26 million people were using Napster. Other applications soon followed.
In March 2000, Nullsoft, the subsidiary of AOL which makes Winamp, released the first version of a client called Gnutella, and the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment released Kazaa Media Desktop connecting to the same FastTrack network as Morpheus. After a day of intensive downloads, AOL removed Gnutella from their site, but developers soon began working on creating compatible clients that could connect to the decentralized network.
In Japan, in December 2000, the Download Soft board was created on 2 channel. This would be the place where WinMX and later Share hashes were posted along with the first Winny executable.
In early 2001, another American company, Frontcode Technologies led by Kevin Hearn released an application called WinMX. Originally, WinMX was based on the Napster protocol, so that its client could connect to independent OpenNap servers, which had started to grow up. In May, however, Frontcode added the ability to connect to a network of its own, the WinMX Peer Network. Unlike Napster, WinMX was designed to handle languages that are encoded using double bytes such as Japanese, and this led to WinMX becoming the first real mass file sharing client in Japan. One of WinMX's innovations was the ability to search by hash, a long string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies each file on the network. This allows users to rename files as they please, while still preserving the ability to find identical files. WinMX users in Japan flocked to Japanese message boards such as 2channel to post hashes for their favorite files. From 2002 until 2006, WinMX was the most popular client for p2p in Japan.
In the meantime, several record companies had launched a lawsuit against Napster alleging that the software contributed to copyright infringement. Napster lost the case, and in July 2001, finding itself unable to create filters to block copyrighted material, Napster shut down its servers.
Later that year, Limewire LLC released its own client based on the Gnutella protocol. Like WinMX, from fairly early on, Limewire was capable of handling Japanese characters.
In Japan as well, a WinMX-using Japanese student was arrested, and had his computer confiscated, so Japanese developers began to work on the problem of developing an anonymous client. The west already had one client known for its anonymity, Freenet, and this captured the attention of one Isamu Kaneko, a grad student at Tokyo University. While Napster needed central servers to keep track of who is sharing what file, Freenet is made up of a network of co-equal "nodes" (clients which are connected to the network). When you search for a "key" (a hash value), Freenet spiders out to neighboring nodes looking for "clusters" which contain related keys. Kaneko adapted these basic ideas, and in spring of 2002, released Winny onto the download board on 2channel. Winny allows users to input three cluster keywords based on the type of file they are looking for, so they can more easily connect to people with those same interests. Winny also introduced the concept of "triggers." If you set up a trigger for a particular filename or hash, Winny will automatically try to download any file that matches. Triggers are necessary because Winny has no central search engine, but if they are too broad, you can end up downloading a lot of unwanted files just because they happen to have the same keyword in the title.
Despite the supposed anonymity of Winny, in November 2003, two Winny users were arrested by the Kyoto police. It appears that they had posted on Winny's bulletin board the names of files they were uploading, and police managed to trace their IP addresses through their posts, and they were arrested. The Winny community continued to post file hashes to 2channel, but it seems that it was this arrest which led WinMX users to stop posting hashes.
In the search for greater anonymity, in January 2004, the developer Sonchou released the first version of Share, a peer-to-peer application which tried to improve on Winny. One key feature was the ability to use DB-only triggers to capture search results from all nodes with which Share comes into contact. This helps users find the specific hash for the file they are looking for, without having to download unwanted files as in Winny.
In May 2004, Isamu Kaneko was arrested on charges of actively encouraging copyright infringement. He was released on bail a few months later, sentenced to a year in prison, and asked to pay a fine of 1.5 million yen in 2006. He is currently appealing his sentence.
In November 2004, a group of Japanese developers released Cabos, a client for the Gnutella network based on Limewire.
By 2005, WinMX had clearly established itself as the most popular file sharing client in the world with an audience of over 2 million regular users. In September, the Recording Industry Association of America issued a cease and desist letter to Frontcode ordering them to implement filters, or shut down. Frontcode responded by shutting down on September 21st. By the 25th, two separate groups of developers had released patches that changed WinMX's DNS lookup so it could find current peer caches. It seems that Japanese WinMX users flocked back to the network, while many p2p users in the west moved on in search of a new network, ultimately Bittorrent.
2007 saw Winny overtake WinMX as the most popular client in Japan. Gnutella clients had also gained a following.
In March 2007, the software company Retina released Sharebot, a program designed to trace which users have uploaded particular files on the Share network. Rumors began spreading that Share's anonymity had been compromised, but actually, Share users soon learned how to set up a plugin called DiffusionProClone to block Sharebot from scanning one's uploads. Other plugins such as sharebotblocker and connexoblocker have recently been released with the same purpose.
From 2007 to 2010, there was a Japanese language forum for torrents: torrent-jp.com/forum.
2008 seems to have been the year when p2p reached its peak in Japan. The Recording Industry Association of Japan reported seeing 209 000 people connect to Share, and 181 000 connect to Winny in that year's report.
In 2009, the Japanese language website Alabout came online, providing torrents or Share hashes for Japanese adult videos.
In 2010, the Japanese Diet outlawed downloading for the first time, and in 2012, penalties were strengthened. P2P usage on Perfect Dark and Share seems to have declined after this, with the Winny user base shrinking less so.
Before 2013, the various watchdog agencies don't seem to have paid much attention to Bittorrent, but that year the amount of bandwidth being used by Bittorrent seems to have overtaken Perfect Dark and Share.
Although FTP, IRC and Usenet had come into use by the 1980's, it wasn't until the appearance of Shawn Fanning's Napster in 1999 that file sharing began to reach a mass audience. Napster was an application that users could download for free, which allowed them to browse, and download each other's mp3's. By February 2001, 26 million people were using Napster. Other applications soon followed.
In March 2000, Nullsoft, the subsidiary of AOL which makes Winamp, released the first version of a client called Gnutella, and the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment released Kazaa Media Desktop connecting to the same FastTrack network as Morpheus. After a day of intensive downloads, AOL removed Gnutella from their site, but developers soon began working on creating compatible clients that could connect to the decentralized network.
In Japan, in December 2000, the Download Soft board was created on 2 channel. This would be the place where WinMX and later Share hashes were posted along with the first Winny executable.
In early 2001, another American company, Frontcode Technologies led by Kevin Hearn released an application called WinMX. Originally, WinMX was based on the Napster protocol, so that its client could connect to independent OpenNap servers, which had started to grow up. In May, however, Frontcode added the ability to connect to a network of its own, the WinMX Peer Network. Unlike Napster, WinMX was designed to handle languages that are encoded using double bytes such as Japanese, and this led to WinMX becoming the first real mass file sharing client in Japan. One of WinMX's innovations was the ability to search by hash, a long string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies each file on the network. This allows users to rename files as they please, while still preserving the ability to find identical files. WinMX users in Japan flocked to Japanese message boards such as 2channel to post hashes for their favorite files. From 2002 until 2006, WinMX was the most popular client for p2p in Japan.
In the meantime, several record companies had launched a lawsuit against Napster alleging that the software contributed to copyright infringement. Napster lost the case, and in July 2001, finding itself unable to create filters to block copyrighted material, Napster shut down its servers.
Later that year, Limewire LLC released its own client based on the Gnutella protocol. Like WinMX, from fairly early on, Limewire was capable of handling Japanese characters.
In Japan as well, a WinMX-using Japanese student was arrested, and had his computer confiscated, so Japanese developers began to work on the problem of developing an anonymous client. The west already had one client known for its anonymity, Freenet, and this captured the attention of one Isamu Kaneko, a grad student at Tokyo University. While Napster needed central servers to keep track of who is sharing what file, Freenet is made up of a network of co-equal "nodes" (clients which are connected to the network). When you search for a "key" (a hash value), Freenet spiders out to neighboring nodes looking for "clusters" which contain related keys. Kaneko adapted these basic ideas, and in spring of 2002, released Winny onto the download board on 2channel. Winny allows users to input three cluster keywords based on the type of file they are looking for, so they can more easily connect to people with those same interests. Winny also introduced the concept of "triggers." If you set up a trigger for a particular filename or hash, Winny will automatically try to download any file that matches. Triggers are necessary because Winny has no central search engine, but if they are too broad, you can end up downloading a lot of unwanted files just because they happen to have the same keyword in the title.
Despite the supposed anonymity of Winny, in November 2003, two Winny users were arrested by the Kyoto police. It appears that they had posted on Winny's bulletin board the names of files they were uploading, and police managed to trace their IP addresses through their posts, and they were arrested. The Winny community continued to post file hashes to 2channel, but it seems that it was this arrest which led WinMX users to stop posting hashes.
In the search for greater anonymity, in January 2004, the developer Sonchou released the first version of Share, a peer-to-peer application which tried to improve on Winny. One key feature was the ability to use DB-only triggers to capture search results from all nodes with which Share comes into contact. This helps users find the specific hash for the file they are looking for, without having to download unwanted files as in Winny.
In May 2004, Isamu Kaneko was arrested on charges of actively encouraging copyright infringement. He was released on bail a few months later, sentenced to a year in prison, and asked to pay a fine of 1.5 million yen in 2006. He is currently appealing his sentence.
In November 2004, a group of Japanese developers released Cabos, a client for the Gnutella network based on Limewire.
By 2005, WinMX had clearly established itself as the most popular file sharing client in the world with an audience of over 2 million regular users. In September, the Recording Industry Association of America issued a cease and desist letter to Frontcode ordering them to implement filters, or shut down. Frontcode responded by shutting down on September 21st. By the 25th, two separate groups of developers had released patches that changed WinMX's DNS lookup so it could find current peer caches. It seems that Japanese WinMX users flocked back to the network, while many p2p users in the west moved on in search of a new network, ultimately Bittorrent.
2007 saw Winny overtake WinMX as the most popular client in Japan. Gnutella clients had also gained a following.
In March 2007, the software company Retina released Sharebot, a program designed to trace which users have uploaded particular files on the Share network. Rumors began spreading that Share's anonymity had been compromised, but actually, Share users soon learned how to set up a plugin called DiffusionProClone to block Sharebot from scanning one's uploads. Other plugins such as sharebotblocker and connexoblocker have recently been released with the same purpose.
From 2007 to 2010, there was a Japanese language forum for torrents: torrent-jp.com/forum.
2008 seems to have been the year when p2p reached its peak in Japan. The Recording Industry Association of Japan reported seeing 209 000 people connect to Share, and 181 000 connect to Winny in that year's report.
In 2009, the Japanese language website Alabout came online, providing torrents or Share hashes for Japanese adult videos.
In 2010, the Japanese Diet outlawed downloading for the first time, and in 2012, penalties were strengthened. P2P usage on Perfect Dark and Share seems to have declined after this, with the Winny user base shrinking less so.
Before 2013, the various watchdog agencies don't seem to have paid much attention to Bittorrent, but that year the amount of bandwidth being used by Bittorrent seems to have overtaken Perfect Dark and Share.
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