OneSwarm: here’s V 0.6. RIAA: DAMN!
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- We’ve just released v0.6, emails OneSwarm.
A while back, as predicted by a lot of people (”including me,” p2pnet quoted David Barrett as saying.
He was talking about OneSwarm, a new P2P network with built-in onionskin routing.
Version 0.6 introduces new features, eg, secure, point-to-point encrypted chat and virtual directories, says the emailm adding:
“More info and a changelog is available here: http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/Changelog ”
In our first post on this, David went on »»»
Even better, it’s backwards compatible with BitTorrent, and they tossed in always-on web-of-trust encryption just for fun.
In English: what little light we ever had into pirate activity just got dimmer. And if we push them really hard, they’ll go entirely dark.
If you thought 20:1 was hard to prove (or disprove) today, just *wait* until everything is encrypted and decentralized.
Next step: widespread adoption of decentralized tracking, followed by decentralized indexing â perhaps using my good friend Tom Jacob’s brilliant Localhost.
Keep pushing, RIAA. You’re giving birth to a very angry child. And if you think it’s painful now, just wait until it grows up.
Stay tuned.
p2pnet – Meet OneSwarm – `Keep pushing, RIAA`, February 24, 2009
David Barrett – OneSwarm: It was just a matter of time, February 23, 2009
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April 14th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Ahhh payback so sweet to us… such a bitch to them
April 14th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
And there seems to be a vast majority of existing bittorrent users who have been using it for years and haven’t even FELT threatened yet enough to switch to the “secret protocols”.
It isn’t even about private trackers versus public ones– I’ve used both with impunity. I even used one tracker that was shut down by court order and had on its front page that the court had our data and they were going to come after us. That was four years ago!
April 14th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I had looked at this a while back, didnt realize it was already so popular, time to find it and fire it up !!!!
Thanks RIAA (never thought I’d say that!)
April 15th, 2009 at 12:08 am
This is another example of wack-a-mole in action. The application would never have shown up if users didn’t feel pressured and programmers responded to that user demand in their product.
Just like with Napster, there wasn’t a big call for other p2p methods until Napster was closed by the RIAA.
Each time they go after some victim, they provide advertisement that you can get free music, where it is at, and they provide a hate factor against their product to those that might have considered buying the product. Those that escape the attention go off with hate in their hearts towards the major labels, purposely intending to continue the legacy of file sharing and hunting new ways to do it. Each time, a new twist is added to escape the last weakness that caused the trouble.
Every time the RIAA has a success in shutting down a site, they provide a new rule in the rule book for what not to do for the next application, providing a near step by step solution on what to avoid. As time goes by it gets tougher and tougher for them to grab hold of the reason to bring a site down. Everyone at the closed sites go off to find new methods, often starting a site themselves, multiplying the mole holes.