P2P File Sharing News Comments – Non RIAA 2006-12-08
An abridged offline wikipedia CD seeded on BitTorrent! Free and legal! Also a 1.5GB (probably imageless) unabridged version for Ipods! Now I wonder If I can download a version for PC viewing (especially TabletPC). MS-HTMLHelp .chm seems to scale to 450MB well for the Penton Media VIP CD (All articles from penton Media IT-related magazines and newsletters since they first started). Not sure if it will scale to an offline Wikipedia. I’ve had 350MB PDFs load pretty well but these wre no-OCR (all pages are images), high-DPI RPG books.
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More stuff free and legal on BitTorrent (and probably made their way to Emule as well)
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Well, recompress it with xvid and seed it back up! Hopefully the oversized 1+GB 5-min clip is compressed with a lossless codec. It would be the only sound reason for the file to be so large. Otherwise it is sheer stupidity.
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ShareConnecter is returning soon! They were pretty good, but I was a very intermittent user.
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I seem to be having a hard time finding Azureus 3.0. Only Zudeo ‘Powered by Azureus‘. They have venture capital now. They are becoming infected. They are in fear of the MPAA. I do hope Zudeo turns out to be more like YouTube with higher quality videos (even if it is moderated though moderator salaries arn’t cheap so that venture capital won’t last long) rather than what BitTorrent is turning into though – A DRM infested MPAA distribution drone. When downloading Zudeo, the filename was ‘Azureus_3_0_windows.exe’. Also I cannot find source code, so it is apparently closed-source now. Also Azureus 2.5 and earlier and 3.0 are on different web sites. A secret / confidential buy-out (and the new owner got the venture funding) may have been involved with an unknown amount of coder turnover.
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Being MPAA infected, I’m pretty sure BitTorrent WILL fuck up uTorrent. Azureus appears to be in the process of becoming MPAA and DRM infected. BitComet is closed-source as well and will probably be consumed by MPAA-BitTorrent as well as they have to have a special license or permission to not release source code or they would be a GPL-violator. BitTornado is open source.
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It’s happening to me to. Watching less TV, and my current TV watching is on a much narrower range of channels — Discovery Channel, Discovery Science, Discovery Times Channel, SciFi Channel, Fox Soccer Channel, GolTV, and MLS Shootout season-package PPV mostly.
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Excellent case study with aggragates and psychology of BitTorrent user behavior. It refers seeders as ‘gifters’ (should be synonymous with ‘givers’ and ‘giving’), legit peers / leechers as traders, and those using leecher-Mods or other hacks as freeriders (synonymous with freeloaders). No sign of the label of ‘thieves’ or ’stealing’ in this paper 
