Available in English Website slyck.com | Owner Tom Mennecke Alexa rank 179,822 (April 2014) | |
Type of site News site with articles and statistics on the state of major P2P networks. Created by Tom Mennecke, Ray Hoffmann | ||
Slyck.com is a website once dedicated to file sharing, updating the public on file sharing news, presenting reviews of file sharing software and opinion on file sharing, and interviewing the developers of file sharing software. At present, Slyck.com links to news articles on other websites, posted by members, and has a user forum.
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History
Slyck.com began operations as Slyway.com in 2000, owned by Ray Hoffman. During this time, Slyway.com was an aggregate news site with some original content. It also had guides to the most popular file-sharing resources at the time. These included Napster, iMesh, Scour, Usenet and IRC.
Slyway.com began writing its own news articles, which became a notable feature of the site because there were very few other sources of news on P2P and filesharing development, and would become one of the first sites dedicated to P2P and file-sharing with original news. A year after Slyway.com opened, it was renamed Slyck.com.
In March 2010, Slyck.com was threatened with legal action by the controversial UK law firm ACS:Law for defamation, due to comments made by forum users on Slyck.com's UK Filesharing Allegations/Lawsuit Discussion Sub Forum.
Slyck.com was one of the first news websites for P2P, but according to Alexa Internet, Slyck.com was surpassed in the number of web pageviews by both Zeropaid.com and TorrentFreak.com from around 2007.
Reception
New Scientist cited it as a "popular file sharing news site", Digital Audio Essentials (2004) referred to Slyck.com as "an excellent resource", and in Steal This Computer Book 4.0 the site was considered to be "up to date on the latest filesharing technology and news."
Notable articles
Slyck.com was at the forefront of P2P news, and as such they were able to interview the individuals who were involved in P2P software development. The following are significant articles about P2P: