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Midas Fallacy - P2P Foundation. Discussion. Mike Chege: "Most of us are familiar with the Greek legend of King Midas. To many it is a cautionary tale about the dangers of avarice. For economists, however, the story of King Midas may hold another lesson. This is that wealth and gold (or money) are not the same thing.
- Definition
- Sources For Bittorrent Downloads
- Bittorrent Derivatives
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Bittorrent = An open source peer to peerfilesharing protocol written by Bram Cohen. The great thing with bit torrent is that as the number of people downloading something increases, the faster the download speed becomes for all those involved. (also check out Dijjer, an open source alternative)
Note that they may disappear due to legal action. 1. Legal Torrents , which includes a wide selection of electronic music. It also has the Wired magazine Creative Commons CD, which has songs from artists like the Beastie Boys who agreed to release some of their songs under a more permissive copyright that allows free distribution and remixing. 2. T...
Blog Torrent
an improvement of BitTorrent specially designed for TV-like channels (later renamed the Broadcast Machine and finally Democracy TV) "Blog Torrent adds features to BitTorrent that make it much easier for people to ‘publish’ files. We’ve made a simple, web-based way to create a ‘torrent’ and upload it in a one step. We’ve also made it easier to install a ‘tracker’ which is necessary on the server side to connect everyone who’s sharing the files. This makes it much easier for video artists, docu...
Exeem
"Tom Mennecke, news editor of the popular file sharing news site Slyck, claimed on 1 December (2004) that: "EXeem will marry the best features of a decentralised network, the easy searchability of an indexing server and the swarming powers of the BitTorrent network into one program." He told New Scientist: "Decentralising BitTorrent holds the potential to revolutionise the P2P community." Screenshots posted on another site by a self-proclaimed eXeem beta tester show a client that incorporates...
LegalTorrent
Legal Torrents is a project aimed at the distribution of Creative Commonslicensed music, movies and books.
Some Background
Internet traffic geared to audiovisual content "Researchers singled out peer-to-peer file trading as the single fastest-growing consumer of network capacity. Currently, Mauldin said, the amount of traffic from peer-to-peer trading rivals that generated by regular web surfing. Growing demand for data-rich files, such as movies, is further boosting bandwidth consumption. "From mid-2004, we saw a significant shift away from music and on to video," said Andrew Parker, chief technical officer at C...
Why Bittorrent is not as good as it sounds
It's good in theory, and passes tests, but in practice, it generates a lot of problems. Marc Cuban at http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/01/11/a-question-about-p2p-technologies/ "The premise of the technically is to break up files into pieces and distribute those pieces on to the PCs of end users who have downloaded the BitTorrent type client. Then when a user requests the file to be delivered or streamed to them, rather than having to go to a host server, a tracker determines where all the fil...
How to start using Bittorrent files, at http://www.idealog.us/2006/04/how_to_start_us.htmlVery informative entry in Wikipedia:BittorrentA profile of Bram Cohen, designer of Bittorrent, in Wired at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.htmlTheophysics is a vision of “Science as theology”, a conception of Physics as science of the world and science of God. Panikkar’s intent is “to auscultate God in the scientific experience itself and to recognize Him in the most abstract mathematical speculation” (“Introduzione alla teofisica”, Civiltà delle Macchine, Roma 5, 1963).
Definition. "People’s organizations (POs), unlike NGOs, are established by and represent sectors of the population like small farmers, artisanal fisherfolk, slum dwellers and others. POs take a wide variety of forms and exist at various levels.
2022年10月21日 · As of 2007, Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He also co-founded the the Commons Strategies Group ( http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference ).
* Book: Aspects of Truth. Catherine Pickstock.Cambridge University Press. 2020 URL = Context From the Wikipedia: "The fourth major theme in Pickstock's thought has been the metaphysics of truth. In her co-authored 2001 book, Truth in Aquinas, as well as her 2020 monograph, Aspects of Truth: A New Religious Metaphysics, Pickstock develops an approach to truth that is both philosophical and ...
An ‘echo chamber’ is a social structure from which other relevant voices have been actively discredited. Where an epistemic bubble merely omits contrary views, an echo chamber brings its members to actively distrust outsiders.
