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What is PGC Share?

by Justin Nation - May 14, 2001, 12:55 pm EDT
Source: specials.cfm?action=profile&id=120

Wondering how in the world you'll keep up with all of the movies from E3 and how PGC will give you their media without imploding from debt? Read on...

After much careful deliberation, planning, and praying we'd now like to introduce you to the concept of PGC Share. For anyone familiar with the file sharing Gnutella network this may be old hat but for new people it may be a big plunge. In the end though, we hope this will be a new and practical way for people to share their Nintendo media of all kinds with their fellow site-goers.

Since everyone has heard of Napster that is the best starting point for how you should think about PGC Share. It is simply something we've tried to set up using an existing network (Gnutella), existing software (LimeWire), and giving you the power to customize it so you can share your files only with our closed community. Will this be a perfect solution? Probably not. What it will do though is give our readership access to much more meda than we could hope to provide through the website since with this system the bandwidth costs won't be incurred by any specific person or site, they'll just wrap into the ISP services everyone already use... much as with Napster.

Go check out the PGC Share FAQ and get yourself set up. Be sure to read everything as there are some important kinks in how this works and some set-up concerns you'll want to be sure to look at in order for this to work out. Let's hope this will work well and can be a great service to the Nintendo fan community as we hope it will be.

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