"BitTorrent is the most popular filesharing protocol on the Internet today. BitTorrent users typically obtain pieces of the data they want and share pieces of the same data with others. By cooperating in this fashion, almost everyone who wants a copy of the data gets what they want..."
Read more »Remote control of your computer with non-free software is unwise
http://www.digitalcitizen.info –
An introduction to GNUnet
http://lwn.net –
Anonymity and deniability in distributing information are two of the goals of the GNUnet project. At its heart, GNUnet is a mechanism to share content with others without revealing who generated the content or who accessed it. It also provides intermediate nodes in the network with the ability to deny knowledge of the contents of any traffic they forward because they are unable to decrypt it.
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Dreaming of a peer to peer world
http://infochangeindia.org –
"Michel Bauwens, founder of the Peer to Peer Foundation, is one of those who believe in open spaces and creation without incentive. In this interview he talks about the Free Software and Wikipedia movements as pointers to a genuine change in the way we think, create and distribute goods.
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Remixtures: an introduction for English-speaking readers
http://remixtures.com –
"...I started Remixtures in the beginning of October 2006, a few months after I finished my master’s thesis about online activism and the (re)appropriation of technology for social goals.
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There is such a thing as peer money
http://www.justlol.net –
"...peer production is about the social production of value, directly through social relations [...] For peer to peer self aggregation to occur, we need distributed infrastructures [...] Peer to peer is about non-rival goods that can be reproduced at marginal cost and abundantly.
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The P2P Foundation: time for a turn towards the political?
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net –
"...Transformative movements usually first start as transgressive subcultural movements (not caring about the old systems); then start building their own institutions (GPL, Creative Commons), before they become more explicitely political and start tackling the existing institutional order.
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The Pirate Bay Guilty of Helping Sharing People?
http://colonos.wordpress.com –
"The Swedish legal system - running errands of Hollywood and the recording industries - have decided that helping people to share their digital data across the Internet is illegal. They might be guilty in the eyes of a corrupt court of law and in the corporate press, but in my book they are fine people, caring and sharing.
Read more »P2P makes positive contribution
http://arstechnica.com –
RMS: « A Dutch study concludes that P2P file sharing makes a positive contribution to society. Of course, we know this is true, but it is good to see it confirmed carefully. »
Read more »Debian Etch Gateway/Router/Firewall with Layer7 and IPP2P for P2P Blocking
http://www.cahilig.org –
If you are in a local area network environment with a host of running Bittorrent or Gnutella, the speed of the network is significantly reduced.
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Internet Group Demands End to Government P2P Propaganda
http://torrentfreak.com –
"...Recently a group of Spanish free-culture supporters demanded the withdrawal of the campaign and a public apology from the government. In protest, they arranged a demonstration on the doorstep of one of the leading political parties in Spain.
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gittorrent: Peer-to-peer Protocol for Synchronizing of Git Repositories
http://code.google.com –
"The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet [...] it is a first step towards applying decentralizing Peer to Peer concepts to Git.
Read more »The Kerala experience
http://www.oekonux.org –
"Hi list! I'm just on the way back home from this great conference which took place in Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala / India. I must say I'm really deeply impressed. I would wish that Free Software *including* things like Oekonux says would have that backing in Germany / Europe / industrialized countries!
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GitTorrent, The Movie
http://advogato.org –
"The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet.
Read more »Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism
http://freeknowledge.eu –
"Just as the three quarters of oil engineers now agree that Peak Oil is in sight within the next decade (after that, oil production can only decline), can we also posit that we may have reached a moment of Peak Hierarchy, a moment in history in which it is no longer large centralized organizations that are most efficient or productive, but rather those that are organized as distributed networks an
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Apt-P2P: peer-to-peer downloading of Debian packages
http://times.debian.net –
"Do you want to help out the Debian (or Ubuntu) project with some mirror bandwidth but don’t know how? Do you want to contribute somehow to Debian’s infrastructure, but you’re not a coder? Tired of getting slow download speeds when the mirrors are overloaded after a new release? Then Apt-P2P is for you..."
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