CodeCon: A Conference for P2P Hackers

Rolig liten hattgubbe writes: "infoAnarchy has the scoop about Codecon, which is an interesting P2P-themed hacker conference in San Francisco (Feb 15-17) at JWZ's DNA Lounge. Some of the next-generation projects discussed are already functional, and a demo of Peek-A-Booty is going to be presented. I wonder if anyone will be arrested?"

Comments

Larry Ellison

[mwalker]

Ellison to me is just a Bill Gates who never got the chance. He doesn't want Microsoft toppled as a monopoly because Microsoft is bad for consumers; he wants Microsoft toppled so he can treat consumers badly and profit from it. He's just a less successful version of Bill Gates in my mind.

FUD like this "unbreakable" business just proves that he's cut from the same mold. What's truly sad is that our society selects people like Ellison and Gates as leaders because ruthlessness is a competitive advantage - and I mean "selects" in the evolutionary sense.

Oracle: the unbreakable national ID card. The whole idea gives me chills.

metallica

[jamesidm]

as a mark of respect for those who made p2p the big thing that it is today, all files transferred at the conference should be metallica music and/or videos.

streaming

[Anonymous Coward]

why do they have to meet in real life?
they could just trade divx of the key speeches! :D

bnorted!

slashdot conspiracy? :

It's about time

[RC514]

It's really time to get rid of central authority technically, because it has been proven to be impossible to achieve freedom of expression by economic and political means. He who owns the press has freedom of the press. After September 11th everyone who even thinks about not swimming in the political mainstream is marked as potential terrorist.

What about walk-p2p?

[redcliffe]

I've discovered that the cheapest form of Peer to peer file sharing in Australia is loading the files your friends want on a CD-RW, take the CD to them, and then blank it and put the files you want from your friend's computer before taking it home. Depending on how far you live from your friend's place, and how you get there, it costs between $0.10 and $1.00 AUD per gigabyte. Much cheaper than Pacific internet ADSL at $139 a gig, or Telstra ADSL at $198 a gig.

Re:What about walk-p2p?

[squaretorus]

Or string-can p2p! Attach your modem to a bit of wet string pulled taught between you and your friends PCs! Transfer rates are slow but free!

For additional bandwidth use rope!

Arrested?

[ImaLamer]

Naw... they won't be arrested, they are citizens. They will be asked to sit in front of congress while congress acts like they care.

[think napster]

Re:Arrested?

[RC514]

Even better. The good ones (you know, the ones who could actually make p2p work) will be hired by big business and subsequently forget why they got into the game in the first place.

Re:Arrested?

[ImaLamer]

You're right, and then they'll make millions off of breaking copyrights.

P2P is great, but no one should make money off of it.

Re:Arrested?

[Don Negro]

I doubt that'll happen to Brandon; if it does, I'll invite him over for a long weekend and brainwash him.

DNA Lounge is a COOL venue...

[Tsar]

What with all the Internet kiosks and all. Jamie's input alone will make this a hypercool event. Plus, everything that goes over the Lounge's sound system is streamed live to the Internet. Does that include CodeCon, I wonder?

Still, it's too bad it couldn't have been held in JWZ's old Tent of Doom (essentially a cubicle wrapped in 500' of camo netting to ward off the ST:TNG theme of the Netscape office decor). I know it's ancient history now, but his TOD page was an inspiration to cubicle-dwellers everywhere, when it was up. Like the once-bright promise of Netscape, it will be missed.

Sounds a bit like HAL

[imrdkl]

The HAL conference in the Netherlands recently seemed to have a similar agenda, although the focus seemed broader there. I am surprized and pleased to see such a forum in the US, even if I cant go.

The BOFs and after-hour discussions are perhaps deeper and more insightful in Holland, or at least, it seems that way...

Re:I wonder if

[Wesley Felter]

Bram Cohen is coordinating it. PureFiction/coderman will be there, though.

Peek-a-booty

[startled]

"a demo of Peek-A-Booty is going to be presented." Yeah, I'll believe that when Duke Nukem Forever ships.