EcoTalk

This a very short review of the OfficialAres.com website that I discovered quite recently. It’s not often that I get almost gushing when I talk about a website, but here it is: my experience was so good I just had to come and write about it!

OfficialAres.com is a website dedicated to all things Ares. From the software that runs on the Ares network, to any news about the world of filesharing; from reviews of the latest applications to FAQs on difficult and not so difficult technical topics. This site has it all.

While all of the site is useful, I actually found the news area the most interesting of all. Here there are stories about the legal status of filesharing and practical consequences of many of the bills that are being introduced or passed. The opinion on this news is presented in a pleasingly irreverent way and it is clear that the writers don’t take themselves or their subject overly seriously. It is, after all, just a big soap opera. Most interesting within the news section is the reaction of the big players – the so called big five – to the ‘little people’ that they are so scared of. This leads to small children and grandparents being held in custody because they are charged with downloading music. You couldn’t make it up.