Using p2p to communicate
p2pnet.net News:- Inspired by a recording of the INDUCE hearing made by singer-songwriter Tom Barger, a coalition of American Net activists and technology firms wants to use p2p to make US congressional hearings visible – highly visible – in the cold, hard light of day.
“The US Congress offers webcasts of their hearings but these often evaporate into the ether unless citizens take the initiative to make live recordings,” says Click to Vote founder John Parres, who’s spearheading the launch of the non-partisan P2PCongress.org.
“The P2P Congress website helps coordinate those efforts and enables visitors to find audio and video copies of hearings via P2P networks,” he states. “The P2P Congress website helps
coordinate those efforts and enables visitors to find audio and video
copies of hearings via P2P networks.”
Supporting the project are Barger, Click to Vote, DeviantArt.com, Dmusic.com, Downhill Battle, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), FreeCulture.org, Gnutella.com, Grokster, Intent Media Works, Mashboxx, Morpheus, Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, Limewire, New Yorkers For Fair Use, Off The Peer, Public Knowledge, Savethe.org, TopP2P and TrustyFiles.
It’s prohibitively expensive for individuals such as Barger to make videos available on their own, says the site, but, “P2P technology makes it possible for citizens to collectively solve this problem.
“Unfortunately, the INDUCE Act is designed to outlaw P2P networks and if it becomes law we will lose the ability to share important Congressional deliberations such as this one. Since filesharing is the best way to solve this kind of problem, shouldn’t cities, states, non-profits, companies, and individuals be allowed to provide this valuable connection to our government?”
August 5th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
how come p2pnet.net is not in this? even DCIA is there. and you hate dcia
August 5th, 2004 at 3:48 pm
This is a US effort zeroing in on US events and p2pnet’s focus is on international news, information and commentaries. But I’m 100% behind P2P Congress. Unfortunately, what happens in America often echos loudly in other parts of the world.
And on the DCIA, I don’t hate it, or its ‘members’. I DO, though, have a very profound aversion to Sharman Networks, which owns the DCIA, and its partners, Brilliant Digital entertainment and Altnet.
Cheers!
August 5th, 2004 at 5:45 pm
Its good to see a bunch of sites getting together like this. Its about time.