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
"...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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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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Democratizacion of Knowledge, P2P alternatives and more in Ecuador
"...What I found most inspiring in the conference, was the discovery that the free software movement in Latin America is not just a technical movement, but a real social movement, with a very high political awareness. I never had this experience..."
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File sharing is not illegal
RMS: « Another federal court ruled that file sharing does not violate copyright law.
I am concerned that Leahy's nasty law could change this »
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Order Against Comcast Issued, FCC Credits EFF
"The FCC has finally published its order (adopted on August 1) directing Comcast to stop blocking BitTorrent traffic. The 34-page ruling makes for surprisingly enjoyable reading, at least as FCC publications go. The order follows the basic outline that was explained by Chairman Martin in his statement on August 1, 2008. But there are some interesting additional tidbits: ..."
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Eric Hunting on the historical origins of peer to peer architecture
"...I think the P2P movement is rediscovering something that has existed as a fundamental aspect of true communities since the origin of civilization but which western culture lost the memory of over the Industrial Age as it systematically disrupted or destroyed traditional communities in favor of new macro-communities, reducing human beings to economic units and cultivating a mass sociopathy..."
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Bipartisan FCC Majority Condemns Comcast's Illegal Blocking
"WASHINGTON -- Today, the Federal Communications Commission published an enforcement order punishing Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, for blocking Internet users' access to legal online content and services. The order, approved by a bipartisan majority on Aug.
Read more »GNUnet 0.8.0b released
"We are pleased to announce that GNUnet 0.8.0b has been released. This is primarily a bugfix release fixing major bugs as well as cosmetic issues..."
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Italy and the Pirate Bay
RMS: «Italy's major ISPs have blocked access to the Pirate Bay, a major bittorrent site.
Read more »Why the Web is Defective by Design!
RMS: «If you are talking about the practice of installing non-free software into a browser, the only thing that is good to offer is the reminder that you must refuse to do that.» --
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