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| URL | slyck.com |
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| Type of site | News site with articles and statistics on the state of major P2P networks. |
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| Registration | Optional (to post on forum). |
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| Available language(s) | English |
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| Owner | Tom Mennecke |
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| Created by | Tom Mennecke |
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| Launched | August 10, 2001[1] |
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Slyck.com is a website dedicated to file sharing. It offers news, reviews, and opinion, and has a user forum.
History of Slyck
Slyck.com began operations as Slyway.com in 2000, owned by Ray Hoffman.[2] 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 due to the fact that 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[3] by the controversial[4][5] 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.[6]
Slyck.com was one of the first news websites for P2P, but it is no longer the market leader. According to Alexa Internet, Slyck.com has been surpassed in the number of web pageviews by both Zeropaid.com and TorrentFreak.com since about 2007.[7]
Notable articles
Slyck.com has interviewed notable individuals such as Michael Weiss of StreamCast,[8] Nir Arbel of SoulSeek,[9] Pablo Soto of Optisoft S.L.[10] and Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon),[11] In 2003, Slyck.com was the sole news source to interview Kevin Hearn of WinMX about that network's future.[12][13] Slyck.com also interviewed Dean Garfield of the MPAA in 2005.[14] In 2007 Slyck.com interviewed Muslix64,[15] the hacker who first circumvented the AACS protection scheme for HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.
References
- ^ Slyck.com Whois record. godaddy.com. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ "Slyck 2.0" Slyck forum, April 5, 2006.
- ^ "Wank Plan Goes Wrong ACS:Law Threatens Slyck.com With a Lawsuit". Thomas Mennecke, Slyck News, March 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
- ^ Piracy letter campaign 'nets innocents' BBC News, January 26, 2010.
- ^ Major law firm drops filesharing threats - Staff continue 'bullying' at smaller outfit Chris Williams, The Register, May 12, 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
- ^ "UK Filesharing Allegations/Lawsuit Discussion Sub Forum". Slyck Forum.
- ^ Pageviews for Slyck, Zeropaid, TorrentFreak Alexa.com. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ "Interview with the CEO of StreamCast Networks". Slyck News, August 16, 2003.
- ^ "SoulSeek Interview". Thomas Mennecke, Slyck News, December 26, 2003.
- ^ "Interview with Pablo Soto of the Manolito P2P Network". Thomas Mennecke, Slyck News, February 17, 2004
- ^ Slyck.com Interviews Jon Lech Johansen. Thomas Mennecke, Slyck News, April 4, 2005.
- ^ "WinMX Interview". Thomas Mennecke, Slyck News, December 25, 2003.
- ^ "The Future of WinMX". Thomas Mennecke, MP3newswire.net, January 27, 2003.
- ^ "Slyck Interviews the MPAA". Slyck.com, December 22, 2005.
- ^ "Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD". Slyck.com, January 24, 2007
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