konspire[2b]
 

konspire.sourceforge.net

Interesting..


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This program is one of the few survivors from last year. It seems to be going in a different direction.


http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/...light=konspire

push me pull you

konspire is morphing into one of the first of what i hope will be many push p2p’s. while it’s now true that anyone anywhere can deliver content to any place on the globe, in a practical sense we haven’t really gotten there yet. most content circulated by individuals is done by pulling, as when someone wants a song or article he “pulls” it from another user on the network. this is fine and obviously works well – if the user knows what he’s looking for. it just doesn’t do much for unknown artists who wish to get new material out to an ambivalent public. what’s been needed is a more aggressive client/network that can set in motion forcefully, the distribution of brand new and unfamiliar works.

it’s like your favorite newspaper. you never know what’s going to be in it and you wouldn’t even know what to ask for but each day over time the publisher delivers a total body of knowledge that in the aggregate fulfills a need you have for news and information.

i see p2p’s moving in this direction. turn them on, go to work, and when you get back they’re filled with content - you didn't have to ask for - that resonates with you, whatever that turns out to be.

this will be the change that disassociates the images of peer-to-peer users from hedonistic jolly rogers the public has come to expect, not without at least some small reason, and channels it into something far more reasonable. when we start getting content from artists that understand p2p’s and can leverage them efficiently, the occurrence of old school media pirating will diminish. god help the riaa labels when that happens. for all their complaining about piracy much of their content, if it wasn’t on the peers – wouldn’t be anywhere at all.

- js.