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Copyright extortionist ripped off his competitor's threatening material
John Steele, a notorious US lawyer who sent out thousands of extortionate copyright threats to alleged Bittorrent infringers, has been found to be in breach of copyright himself. Steele's website...
View ArticleUS ISP/copyright deal: a one-sided private law for corporations, without...
Last month, the major American ISPs and entertainment industry lobbyists struck a deal to limit Internet access for alleged copyright infringers. This deal, negotiated in secret with the help of New...
View ArticleTalkO'Clock: "P2P alarm clock" for people who want to wake up/be woken up by...
If you're the sort of person who likes to wake up strangers, or talk to strangers first thing in the morning, then TalkO'Clock might be right for you. It's a P2P matchmaking service that allows you to...
View ArticleSarkozy's official residence is a den of piracy
Further revelations from the YouHaveDownloaded BitTorrent logger: six infringing BitTorrent swarms included computers logged into the network of the official residence of French President Nicholas...
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Studios winning the battle to stop Oscar screeners from leaking; losing the war
For ten years, Kickstarter founder former CTO Andy Baio has been compiling his "Pirating the Oscars" reports, which document which Oscar-nominated movies are available as downloads on P2P and other...
View ArticleGrid computing turns your idle cycles into a charity-supporting supercomputer
Mark sez, "Charity Engine has a new twist on volunteer computing: using surplus, wasted PC resources to raise money for major charities including Oxfam, Amnesty, MSF and CARE - and also for huge prize...
View ArticleOpen platform for peer-driven food production needs your help
Devin sez, We need the crowd's help to fund development (or just to find awesome pro-bono developers) of a platform that facilitates peer production driven local food systems. Think Craigslist meets...
View ArticleHow the record industry killed legal P2P, created a generation of pirates,...
TorrentFreak's Enigmax does a great job of summarizing Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story, a remarkable scholarly paper written by Rutgers law's Michael A. Carrier, forthcoming in Wisconsin...
View ArticleP2P downloaders spend more than non-downloaders on music, but pollster can't...
Michael Geist sez, The NPD Group response contains math errors for both non-P2P users (the total should be $192 not $191) and P2P users (the total should be $268 not $267), though perhaps this is due...
View ArticleBitTorrent Sync: like Dropbox, but fully peer-to-peer and private
Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reviews the new BitTorrent BitTorrent Sync, a peer-to-peer-based Dropbox replacement that's now in public alpha testing. BTSync uses the BitTorrent protocol to keep the...
View ArticleKickstarting Operator: a censorship-resistant, shape-shifting newsreader
Brandon Wiley -- a P2P developer I've known and respected for more than a decade -- writes, "The Operator news reader project was started in order to protect the most censored content on the Internet:...
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Bitcloud: Bitcoin-like "distributed autonomous corporations" that replace...
Some Bitcoin enthusiasts have announced a new project called Bitcloud. The idea is something like the old Mojo Nation P2P architecture, in which individual Internet users perform tasks for each other...
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Crowdfunding Lantern, a P2P anti-censorship tool
Scout writes, "Billions of people experience a severely-censored version of the Internet -- most famously in countries like China and Iran. Now there's something you can do about it." (more…)
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Journal of Peer Production seeks papers for issue on Feminism and Hacking
They want articles and experimental pieces exploring the relationship between hacking and gender, race and orientation. (more…)
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Faced with network surveillance, Hong Kong student demonstrators go P2P
The makers of Firechat, a wireless P2P chat app that works phone-to-phone over Bluetooth and wifi, say they've seen a surge of new users from Hong Kong's student demonstrators, who are locked in...
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Ex-copyright troll now sends letters inviting "pirates" to join fan-clubs
Tommy Funderburk used to be a copyright troll whose company, Payartists, sent legal threats to people accused of copyright infringement, though they didn't represent any actual artists (the closest...
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Crapgadget apocalypse: the IoT devices that punch through your firewall and...
Cheap Internet of Things devices like Foscam's home CCTVs are designed to covertly tunnel out of your home network, bypassing your firewall, so they can join a huge P2P network of 7 million other...
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Youtube's new "offline first" product for India treats telcos as damage and...
Yesterday, Google announced "Youtube Go," an "offline first" version of the popular video service designed for the Indian market where internet coverage is intermittent, provided by monopolistic...
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Scuttlebutt: an "off-grid" P2P social network that runs without servers and...
Dominic Tarr is a developer who lives on a self-steering sailboat in New Zealand; he created Scuttlebutt, a secure messaging system that can run without servers, even without ISPs. (more…)
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Beaker: a decentralized, peer-to-peer web browser that lets you create and...
Beaker is a project from Dat, a "grant-funded, open-source, decentralized data sharing tool." It's a browser that lets you easily create websites using Markdown, or fork any existing website to make...
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