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Humanodes routing around Damage/Censorship

There is an old (on the Internet) saying; the web interprets censorship as damage and simply routes round. This is a key point as the internet was designed to route around the damages caused by a nuclear strike - so routing around censorship is child's play. While the technical routing around damage/censorship is one thing, how people respond is not dissimilar;

P2P Sharing Income, as well as Content

This is an interesting article worth a read. One of the people behind The Pirate Bay is trying to apply the same ideas they used regarding sharing content to the income side of distribution:

Human P2P Networks

Defining what a network is, is a huge topic.  It is one I engage with to some extent in my research and you can boil a network down to two components - links and nodes.  The beginnings and ends of the network is a more complex matter.  For example with the Internet, it is less one big network and more a series of networks united by common protocols.  (There is a good discussion of mapping networks using Actor-Network Theory in chapter 4 of Murdoch's book Post-Structuralist Geography.  But networks ar

A New PirateBay? Meet TorrentFactory.org

I've been made aware of a new torrent indexing website, TorrentFactory.org - it's interesting as a development as it seems clear that the PirateBay is under severe threat this year - so the question arises; what will replace it?  I don't mean this question in the sense of what will replace it as the the bogey-man of copyright, I mean the question more in a technological sense; where next for torrent indexing.  I mean this beca

Stopping copyright violations on p2p: Can the technology ever work?

Getting back to the question of if there is a technical solution that would ever be able to stop copyright violations on p2p, a couple of interesting blog posts that might back my eariler hypothesis that it is simply not possible to stop.  First off is the results from a study into anonymizing service use in Sweden.

Is P2P Traffic Declining?

Wired recently published an article, based on the analysis of traffic from 110 different ISPs over on nearly 3,000 routers, for a total of 264 exabytes of traffic - and the article concluded that p2p traffic globally was on  the decline:

Uncomfortable Truths

After writing about, not the 'why' of new laws aimed at curbing piracy online, but asking about the 'if' - I was very interested to read in the current issue of MCV (556) a quote by Namco Bandai UK marketing manager David Miller;

Never Mind the Policy: Can Filtering Technology Stop p2p?

There is another story in the media about the ongoing debate about what (if anything) the government should be doing in response to online piracy;

A rift has opened between music's creators and its record labels, with a broad alliance of musicians, songwriters and producers fiercely criticising the business secretary Lord Mandelson's plans to cut off the broadband connections of internet users who illegally download music.

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