The first phase was napster (centralized in many respects), then second
generation p2p was gnutella and emule, and now the third generation has
Freenet,
I2P, GNUnet,
Rodi,
AntsP2P,
Mute, etc. Even if you're not
interested in the issue the back and forth conflict between the media companies
and programmers is interesting - I wonder who'll win out in the end.
Reminds me of the up coming horrors of Y2K that amounted to a few slot machines not working after midnight.
Although chicken littles can be right once in a while given the sheer number of warnings tossed about, and then no one listens to them when they should have;).
I would mind people doing things like this less if it was just from an investigative angle (kinda of like Wikipedia, except they aren't confinded to articles but go out looking for facts etc.).
Things like this tend to get out of control though when people jump to conclusions / and because it's so easy to fall into group think when mobbing around on emotional issues.
You hear about companies such as Google thinking about going wireless
here and here. I wonder
if satellite would be a cheaper alternative instead?
I might even buy one to broad cast my own TV channels and music out there;),
me or even copyleft groups like CreativeCommons can some and then take the media
companies by storm.
"The Bill, H.R. 5319, also known as the 'Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006', is still in its infancy, but in its current form, would forbid libraries from allowing access to such sites as well."
The solution is to force these politians to take vacation 360 out of 365 days of the year to limit the damage and stupidity caused.
Educational Software has been around for a while, but despite kids' increasing use of computers in the classroom I don't really remember hearing about any of this software being really wide spread.
I suspect it's the difficulty in pretty much creating an educational curriculum (fact checking it etc.) then trying to turn it all into software, and also making it fun / easy to use. Also if it's too fun it might not be educational enough;), there already seems to be a stigma about playing fun educational 'games' on school time.
Slashdot Mirror
"Pirate Bay will reappear in Ukraine, Russia, The Netherlands and three other countries."
Warez sites are moving about to other countries, and some are even popping up on Freenet now. I think anonymous p2p will be the next main phase.
The first phase was napster (centralized in many respects), then second generation p2p was gnutella and emule, and now the third generation has Freenet, I2P, GNUnet, Rodi, AntsP2P, Mute, etc. Even if you're not interested in the issue the back and forth conflict between the media companies and programmers is interesting - I wonder who'll win out in the end.
Reminds me of the up coming horrors of Y2K that amounted to a few slot machines not working after midnight.
;).
Although chicken littles can be right once in a while given the sheer number of warnings tossed about, and then no one listens to them when they should have
I would mind people doing things like this less if it was just from an investigative angle (kinda of like Wikipedia, except they aren't confinded to articles but go out looking for facts etc.).
Things like this tend to get out of control though when people jump to conclusions / and because it's so easy to fall into group think when mobbing around on emotional issues.
I might even buy one to broad cast my own TV channels and music out there ;),
me or even copyleft groups like CreativeCommons can some and then take the media
companies by storm.
"The Bill, H.R. 5319, also known as the 'Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006', is still in its infancy, but in its current form, would forbid libraries from allowing access to such sites as well."
The solution is to force these politians to take vacation 360 out of 365 days of the year to limit the damage and stupidity caused.
Educational Software has been around for a while, but despite kids' increasing use of computers in the classroom I don't really remember hearing about any of this software being really wide spread.
;), there already seems to be a stigma about playing fun educational 'games' on school time.
I suspect it's the difficulty in pretty much creating an educational curriculum (fact checking it etc.) then trying to turn it all into software, and also making it fun / easy to use. Also if it's too fun it might not be educational enough
Why not use Freenet to host ed2k links and bittorrent files? I'd expect Freenet sites would be harder to attack ;).