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Open Content Network (P2P meets Open Source)
Orasis writes "The creators of Swarmcast have announced a new peer-to-peer content delivery network called the Open Content Network. The OCN will allow users to download open source and public domain content from multiple peers and mirrors in parallel. The system is designed to augment the existing mirrors with bandwidth from the p2p network and should eliminate the "Slashdot Effect" for popular open source content."
Perhaps this is a silly question, but I worried about it with Napster and subsequent file sharing software, too. Is is possible to contribute and be secure?
Can I bum a sig?
Presumably everything on the network will need to be electronically signed by whoever uploaded it anyway (for many many reasons) so it won't be hard to track down whoever put restricted material on the system.
"I would love it if this were completely true, but this merely means this band got 1 sale -- from 1 person"
I like your logic. So obviously the record store is failing when I go in and buy my one CD. From one person. My one CD from one person. To clarify, only one CD from only one person. The record shop is obviously failing.
Yeah right.
No, it means that MP3.com is succeeding, that Aura are succeeding, and that Faithless are shafted (who made the CDs I wanted, but which I'm not gonna buy with the current state of the record industry, and their political representatives)
Here's a hint: when you have lots of people buying one thing each, you make lots of money. Find a maths book. Revise the chapter on multiplication.
There are pleny of other open p2p products.
Freenet scaleable, not vaporware, very much beta.
Alpine.
based on trust
Gnunet. Sounds very open. based on electonic money. also seach for gnet.
chord Very efficient to find files.
distrinet At this stage: vaporware.(there is code....) But if you look at the description it beats any p2p software!
But in the end the network with the most data (gnutella/kazaa) will be used. Note that users will switch networks very quickly. Look what happened to napster.
this is what we need to make the open music movment happen.....people will make music, license it as being free to trade, and then folkes will do more and more of it.....who knows, mabye this can become the "good example" needed to show the courts that P2P file sharing can be done with out infringing the rights of others, and even lead to some mainstream artist releasing some music on the system to advertise.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
I'd like to draw your attention to the Globe Distribution Network (GDN), like OCN, a content distribution network for freely redistributable software. Its design specifically addresses the problem of deviants abusing the network to distribute other people's copyrighted works and illicit content. In particular, it requires all content published to be digitally traceable to the publisher. If, after publication, someone finds that this content is not free software the content will be removed and its publisher blocked from the network.
The GDN furthermore offers a scalable solution to the problem of finding the nearest replica (i.e., a scalable URI resolver service in OCN terms), and facilities for dynamically replicating content in areas with many downloaders.
Publications on the GDN, the underlying Globe middleware, and its initial implementation (BSD license) can be found on http://www.cs.vu.nl/globe. The best description of the anti-abuse measures of GDN are found in the paper titled ``A Law-Abiding Peer-to-Peer Network for Free-Software Distribution'' published at the IEEE NCA'01 Conference.