Peer to peer sharing of political information
Indypeer | 16.04.2004 01:36 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Technology
Many people use p2p for sharing of files. This is controversial, because (as media industry reps claim) 'copy kills music'. However, there is much content out there that is legitimate for 'fair use' (or whatever the regional term de vogue may be), since it directly relates to issues of public interest.
We found that especially with the closure of Sharereactor and jigle, it is not really easy to find political, news and informative stuff anymore. Thus, we built a little Web interface and database to collect some stuff we've come across and to enable people add more they know of.
We invite you to try it out at http://www.indypeer.org.
If anyone takes exception to the name Indypeer, we can change that too. But we hope it's OK since we're not doing it for big buck$$$, but for the community. Consider it the index to a global data storage.
We found that especially with the closure of Sharereactor and jigle, it is not really easy to find political, news and informative stuff anymore. Thus, we built a little Web interface and database to collect some stuff we've come across and to enable people add more they know of.
We invite you to try it out at http://www.indypeer.org.
If anyone takes exception to the name Indypeer, we can change that too. But we hope it's OK since we're not doing it for big buck$$$, but for the community. Consider it the index to a global data storage.
Indypeer
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http://www.indypeer.org
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Great idea but...
29.04.2004 08:43
Zinfandel
OK, So I missed the bit about installing eMule/aMule...
29.04.2004 09:11
I wouldn't say that I am a newbie (I have been using computers - mainly Macs - since about 1982) but to be faced with a list of incompprehensible possible non-platform specific downloads and then find a folder of bewildering files on my desktop with no documentation, I decided to go no further with this.
There are plenty of user friendly P2P applications - why this one? If I can't be bothered to spend hours tweeking my system how many people with less experience are going to?
Like I said, great idea...but...
Zinfandel