Slyck.com

Slyck.com

Slyck.com is a popular website dedicated to file sharing. It offers news, reviews, and opinion, and has very active user forums. The site tracks the latest versions of file sharing clients and network traffic.

Slyck began operations as Slyway.com during the early summer months of 2000. During this time, Slyck was an aggregate news site with some original content. It was also unique in that it had well written guides to the most popular file-sharing resources at the time. These included Napster, iMesh, Scour, Usenet and IRC.

While all other file-sharing sites at the time served as aggregate news sites, Slyway began writing its own news articles. This became the primary responsibility of their chief news writer, Thomas Mennecke. Slyck.com would become the first site dedicated to P2P and file-sharing with original news.

A year after Slyway opened, it was renamed Slyck.com.

As Slyck.com evolved, it began to receive greater recognition as an important news resource. In 2004, the New Scientist described it as a "popular file sharing news site". [Will Knight: " [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6830 Movie file-sharing hubs poised to decentralise] " NewScientist.com news service, 22 December 2004] Slyck would often have interviews with notable individuals such as Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon) [ [http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=733 Slyck News - Slyck.com Interviews Jon Lech Johansen ] ] , Michael Weiss of StreamCast [ [http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=220 Slyck News - Interview with the CEO of StreamCast Networks ] ] , Nir Arbel of SoulSeek [ [http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=356 Slyck News - SoulSeek Interview ] ] or Pablo Soto of Optisoft [ [http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=396 Slyck News - Interview with Pablo Soto of the Manolito P2P Network ] ] . In 2003, Slyck became the only news source to ever interview Kevin Hearn of WinMX. [ [http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=355 Slyck News - WinMX Interview ] ] [ [http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/winmx.html WinMX ] ] It gained some fame for interviewing Dean Garfield of the MPAA in 2005. [" [http://www.slyck.com/story1036_Slyck_Interviews_the_MPAA Slyck Interviews the MPAA] " Slyck.com, December 22, 2005] The 2007 Slyck interview [" [http://www.slyck.com/story1390.html Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD] " Slyk.com, January 24, 2007] with Muslix64, the hacker who first circumvented the AACS protection scheme for HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs, was cited by the BBC [" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6301301.stm Hi-def DVD security is bypassed] " BBC News, 26 January 2007] , the Electronic Frontier Foundation [ [http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005094.php Why One Angry Customer Broke AACS | Electronic Frontier Foundation ] ] and InformationWeek [ [http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197001006 Hacker Opens Crack In High-Def Movie DRM - HD movie player format cracked - InformationWeek ] ] .

Slyck remains an important information resource and has become the leading file-sharing/P2P news site. With its ability to understand the unique file-sharing culture, Slyck has gained a reputation for accuracy that mainstream media sites fail to obtain. While Slyck has gained a reputation for accuracy within certain circles, there is no visible editorial policy which could ensure that Slyck does develop into a more credible news website.

According to Alexa Internet, both TorrentFreak and Zeropaid surpassed Slyck's number of page views by August 2007. [ [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/slyck.com?site0=slyck.com&site1=zeropaid.com&site2=torrentfreak.com&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610&range=6m&size=Medium slyck.com - Traffic Details from Alexa ] ]

Since the departure of staff member Drew Wilson (a.k.a. IceCube) who moved to writing news for Zeropaid.com in January 2008, [ [http://web.unbc.ca/~johnso9/blog/?page_id=226 » Who Is Frozen IceCube? ] ] , Mennecke has been the only news writer.

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