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Web of Trust Audio News Distribution

Posted by michael on from the happy-birthday-stephanie dept.

c0rtex writes "Wearlab (University of Bremen) has designed a cool web of trust voice message routing system with a decaying credibility metric. It supports xmms and winamp. Source available for Linux and win32. "MPN makes it possible to deliver completely decentralized and independent news. Everyone has the possibility to be a reporter, no filtering publisher is required...""

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  1. decentralized news pirates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick! Call John Ashcroft! These pirates want to take copyrighted "news stories" and distribute them freely! This will take away the incentive for news to occur. News occurs only because news has an incentive to occur. Take away that incentive and it won't occur anymore. See what you've done? You can't just take news and distribute it without lots of damage. I say it's time for an FBI raid.

  2. Does this guy use AOL? by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    I MEAN, COME ON, POSTING TECHNICAL SPECS IN ALL CAPS? AND THAT BACKGROUND CHOICE?

    Also, the problem with "decentralized news" is the same problem with posts to /. - people .

    Do you really want your news be mostly "First Post", penis bird, goatse.cx, Beowulf clusters of grits, and NPN&P?

    Until you have a means of creating a real trust metric, so that I can insure those I get my news from are marginally competent, the distribution method is meaningless.

    And please, don't suggest M1 and M2 for news....

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  3. Re:Oh no... by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you think that's bad, what's going to happen when Stephen King really dies?

  4. Sounds interesting by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Might be a good way for musicians to distribute music, and vote the cream to the top.
    But people *reading* their news? I can barely stand listening to regular people talk (Here in MN).

    God forbid someone from Minnesota reads the news.

    "YAAAAAAA...tudayee its reahl col, yah. Daah Nord Chore got some wedder 'day. Yahh. Dat 'torm waz ah reahl bigun, donchaa know...YAAAAAAAAAAAAA it wahz..." *Shudder*

    Perhaps we can just make it text-based.