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Downhillbattle.org Bounty For P2P Gaim Plug-in
thecombatwombat writes "Music activism site Downhillbattle.org has started a fund to pay a bounty on a peer-to-peer plugin for Gaim. With new laws threatening peer-to-peer, Downhill Battle thinks this is the future. Regardless, it's an interesting funding of open source."
Raised as of Nov 13, 6:30am: $354
Raised as of Nov 15, 6:30am: $359
Cost of bandwidth usage after being Slashdotted: Priceless
do you realy want your friends (especially girls) browseing through your porn??? will they ever look at you the same way again. If you have a huge stash of bart and lisa cartoon porn?
Hey! You got P2P in my IM!
Hey! You got IM in my P2P!
Two great technologies that go great together!
If you have a huge stash of Bart and Lisa cartoon porn, it's fairly safe to say that you probably don't have friends in the first place.
Thats like suing the maker of Windows because it runs BitTorrent.
What a great idea - why hasn't RIAA thought of that?
"If only they could both lose"
Quick, let's make a P2P plug-in for IIS and Internet Explorer!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Tell me about it - I used to use this great newsgroup reader called emacs, then some bonehead added in support for text editing.
Perhaps the RIAA is pissed off that so [dead.net] many [phish.com] bands [mule.net] are content with giving their music away for absolutely free.
When nobody wants to hear your music, you have little choice.
Hell, I keep my enemies on my buddy list.
Machiavelli, is that you?