#p2p

Here’s the part that makes it Veilamp: there’s no central media server. Your audio streams peer-to-peer over the Veilid network, end-to-end encrypted, straight from you to your listeners. We’re not in the middle. There’s no company relay logging who tuned in, no account, no cloud bill. It’s the same private, friends-first networking that powers sharing your library — we just taught it to carry a live program.

The sneakerweb CLI lets you browse and maintain a local collection of sneakerwebsites. You can export your collection to a .snk file, you can import .snk files into your collection, and you can create new websites.

Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

"A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period. Plenty of online sites (including ours) took him to task for that, wondering how one gets to be the CEO of a major content company without understanding the internet. Today, Lynton hit back at critics -- not by saying he was quoted out of context or misunderstood, but by standing behind the statement and adding some gems to it as well. Let's take a look..."

"There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"

"Why are some people getting In Rainbows from P2P rather than the band’s site? Probably because they find P2P easier to use."

"The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update."

"Routing traffic through peer-to-peer networks could stave off Internet congestion, according to a new study."

"P2P clearly gives you more bang for your buck"

"A Collaborative and Decentralized World Wide Web"

"This proposition brought us so much sh*t that it had to be continued on the next fan." Almost shockingly frank discussion of the BBC and BitTorrent - funny too.

"With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. "

"How does this work? The short answer is that new RSS items are distributed using peer-to-peer multicast."

"NYU student Brian has a secret: He and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit Hollywood movies in their spare time."

"Localhost is a program that lets you access a shared, world-wide file system through your web browser. "

"BitTorrent has released a 'trackerless' version of BitTorrent in a new release."

I'd definitely pitch in some CPU cycles for something like this!

P2P as a threat to military security

"Grandma Bingo Sex."

"If Napster started the first generation of file-sharing, and services like Kazaa represented the second, then the system developed by Mr. Cohen, known as BitTorrent, may well be leading the third."

"One of the more difficult aspects of social resource discovery is the use of feedback to qualify the resources returned by peers."

"Magnet links allow users to directly download large media files saving website creators and bloggers money on bandwidth costs and effectively propagating files on p2p networks that attract millions of users per day."

"Snackster.net is the world's best peer to peer recipe sharing program. Unlike other popular file sharing networks Snackster.net is dedicated to only cooking."