Slyck.com
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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 file sharing 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 the fact that it had well written guides to the most popular file-sharing resources at the time. These included Napster, iMesh, Scour, Usenet and IRC.
As times changed, so did Slyway. Over the course of the next year, a key element of Slyway developed that would allow this site to become a leader in this niche market. While all other file-sharing sites at the time served as aggregate news sites, Slyway began developing its own news. 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. Slyck would often have interviews with notable individuals such as Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon), Micheal Weiss of StreamCast, Nir Arble of SoulSeek, and Pablo Soto of Optisoft. Slyck also would become the only news source that ever interviewed Kevin Hearn of WinMX.
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.
