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Open Content Network (P2P meets Open Source)

Posted by michael on from the leveraging-synergies dept.

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."

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  1. 1 of many alternatives. by leuk_he · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. so, if this covers all open content, mabye by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  3. A Law-Abiding Distribution Network by HappyCamper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.