Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolut. Published on OpenP2P.com ( See this if you're having trouble printing code examples by Tim O'Reilly12/11/2002 The continuing controversy over online file sharing sparks me to offer a few thoughts as an author and publisher. To be sure, I write and publish neither movies nor music, but books. But I think that some of the lessons of my experience still apply. Lesson 1: Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. Let me start with book publishing. Sites like Amazon that create a virtual storefront for all the books in print cast a ray of light into the gloom of those warehouses, and so books that would otherwise have no outlet at all can be discovered and bought.
Many works linger in deserved obscurity, but so many more suffer simply from the vast differential between supply and demand. I don't know the exact size of the entire CD catalog, but I imagine that it is similar in scope. Lesson 2: Piracy is progressive taxation. TPB Tracker Geo Statistics. Good Copy Bad Copy. Technology Review: Mapping the Internet. The increased use of peer-to-peer communications could improve the overall capacity of the Internet and make it run much more smoothly. That’s the conclusion of a novel study mapping the structure of the Internet. It’s the first study to look at how the Internet is organized in terms of function, as well as how it’s connected, says Shai Carmi, a physicist who took part in the research at the Bar Ilan University, in Israel.
“This gives the most complete picture of the Internet available today,” he says. While efforts have been made previously to plot the topological structure in terms of the connections between Internet nodes–computer networks or Internet Service Providers that act as relay stations for carrying information about the Net–none have taken into account the role that these connections play. “Some nodes may not be as important as other nodes,” says Carmi. With the core connected, any node is able to communicate with any other node within about four links. Joox.net. Untitled. Meet Joost: Skype founders' video service renamed and relau.
Skype and Kazaa co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have settled on a name for their much-anticipated "Venice Project. " The video distribution service will be known as Joost—a meaningless word both in English and in the founders' native Danish and Swedish, though a popular first and last name in the low countries. The project's headquarters happen to lie in Leiden, Holland. The enthusiasm about Joost stems from Friis' and Zennström's proven knack for building successful services. Kazaa was a leading file-sharing service until legal issues shut it down. Then, the same underlying network technology was applied to voice over IP, and Skype was born. That's the current VoIP leader with over 2 million registered users, and the financial backing of eBay should help the platform maintain a strong market position. Joost is yet another incarnation of the same basic technology, this time applied to video distribution. In.solit.us: Upload and share your files.
The politics of piracy - The Net - Times Online. Media/Marketing nieuws: EMI biedt muziek aan via 'advertent. Met de peer-to-peer downloaddienst Qtrax kunnen gebruikers straks gratis muziek downloaden als ze voor de optie kiezen om eerst een advertentie te bekijken. EMI heeft als eerste platenmaatschappij een contract getekend met Qtrax.
Gebruikers van Qtrax kunnen een ‘door een advertentie gesponsorde’ song van EMI vijf keer gratis beluisteren waarna ze een ‘click to buy’ optie aangeboden krijgen. Wie muziek wil downloaden via Qtrax kan zich ook abonneren op een premium versie van het programma. Qtrax maakt gebruik van ‘file sharing network’ Gnutella. Qtrax , ontwikkeld door het Amerikaanse LTDnetwork, is geen nieuwe naam.
Platenmaatschappijen en filmstudio’s lijken langzaam te gaan inzien dat peer-to-peer netwerken een interessant distributieplatform kunnen zijn. EMI, met artiesten als Coldplay en Robbie Williams, deelt in de opbrengsten van advertenties en betalende gebruikers. “Er is veel vraag van adverteerders om op peer-to-peer netwerken te mogen adverteren. INDICARE.
Swedish police shut Web site in music piracy raid | CNET News.co. Free Internet TV - Peer to Peer File Sharing P2P ( Cybersky-TV, Your Tube, Whose Dime? - Forbes.com. Gifting technologies. Smart Mobs: P2P Foundation podcasts and webcasts. Think-Know Tools is an extension for the Introduction to Mind-Amplifiers course. It covers subjects like intellect augmentation, personal knowledge management, mind-amplifying devices, self-evolving collective intelligence networks, knowledge technologies. It involves new unconventional teaching and learning methods like asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, concept maps, Personal Brain, and synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter. The duration of the course is 6 weeks between October 17 and November 30, along 6 weekly modules, as follows: Module 1: Roots & Visions of AugmentationModule 2: Social Bookmarking as Collective IntelligenceModule 3: Concept MappingModule 4: Personal Knowledge ManagementModule 5: The Extended MindModule 6: Self-Organized Co-Learning Important note about participation If you’re interested in registering for this course, you should know that the course is collaborative and participative, not a passive enjoyment of online lectures.
The Napster Experience. Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Comm. We Media » Chapter 4: The rules of participation. Chapter 4: The rules of participation The abundance and proliferation of virtual communities and collaboration environments provide the opportunity for anyone to play just about any role in the journalistic process. As we discussed in the last chapter, the audience has taken on the roles of publisher, broadcaster, editor, content creator (writer, photographer, videographer, cartoonist), commentator, documentarian, knowledge manager (librarian), journaler and advertiser (buyer and seller).
For media organizations and businesses to understand how to engage their empowered audience, we must consider what motivates the audience to take on their new roles and what kinds of rules yield the most fruitful participation. Finally, we look at reputation systems and the balance of trust that's struck between buyers and sellers or content creators and their online peers. Why we participate The Hierarchy of Needs was the brainchild of Abraham Maslow, one of the founding fathers of humanistic psychology.
Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblog. Anita Blanchard, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community Researchers, practitioners, and the media have used the term virtual community to refer to vastly different computer-mediated communication (CMC) groups. EBay, a soap opera newsgroup, The WELL, a website for wristwatch enthusiasts, and more have all been referred to as virtual communities (Baym, 1995; Boyd, 2002; Rheingold, 1993; Rothaermel & Sugiyama, 2001). Should blogs be considered virtual communities, too?
To answer this question, we must understand, first, why virtual communities are considered important, and, second, what the characteristics of a virtual community are. Why are Virtual Communities Important? The term virtual community is used quite frequently. But why does this overuse exist? A second, more practical, reason for the importance of virtual communities relates to the CMC groups sustainability. What are Virtual Communities? What is Sense of Community? Tribler. Razorback2 killed. ONE OF the largest eDonkey2000 P2P communities, Razorback2 has been shut down. The network, with more than three million users, has been switched off after a Federal Belgian Police raid.
Razorback2's servers and a suspected administrator were seen being pushed into paddy-wagons. Meanwhile Swiss authorities have arrested the site's operator at his home. Although some users might be able to ping what appear to be Razorback2 servers, word on the street is that these are being operated by the copyright enforcement bodies. Razorback2 was an important eDonkey2000 indexing server and was only available through an eDonkey2000 client such as eMule. The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has issued a press release claiming a great victory in its war against pirates. Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said the operators chose not to exercise control over files being traded by users which including those containing "child pornography, bomb-making instructions and terrorist training videos".
More here. µ. Peer Pressure. Feature from PC Magazine: P2P Goes Private. New peer-to-peer services let you set up private communities where you can safely exchange data with people you know. When someone says "peer-to-peer file sharing," you probably think of applications like eDonkey, Kazaa, and Morpheus. You think of millions of people freely swapping songs, movies, and software across the Internet. You might even think of all the other people who used to use these networks but who have quit, afraid they'll be next in the line of lawsuits filed by the major record labels and movie studios that claim these massive networks and their users violate copyrights. But there's another side to P2P file sharing, a side that belies its reputation. Suddenly, all sorts of companies are offering P2P applications that forgo enormous, Kazaa-like public networks in favor of much smaller, private networks—apps like Groove, Grouper, PiXPO, and Qnext.
Some of them swap nothing but photos (see "Share Your Photos"). Veoh ~ The First Internet Television Peercasting Network. JAJAH - web-activated telephony. SETI@home. Research :: Programme Overview. Universal P2P News Source.