isoHunt launches Hexagon.cc
p2pnet news view P2P:- isoHunt creator Gary Fung says he’s looking for feedback on his new “social file sharing” site, Hexagon.cc.
Two years in the making, its contents are offered under creative Commons license and Fung says he hopes the site will bring significant changes to how people share online with BitTorrent, also encouraging new ideas in social media sharing in general.
“There are still rough edges and many features are not yet implemented, but it’s usable enough now for public feedback,” he says.
What’ll set Hexagon.cc apart from other social file sharing and BitTorrent sites is, “everything is centered around groups” which can be, “created with fine grain permission controls to be either public or private,” he states.
Not only but also, “Our groups system will also allow commercial content to be shared, with monetization opportunities for copyright holders via compensation models such as direct ‘fan’ contribution or our sharing of advertising revenue,” Fung says.
“We have contacts with game publishers and independent musicians and film makers, who are very interested in creating their own groups where they can directly market their music, videos or games and interact with their fans, and generate sales directly or indirectly.”
To get things going, Fung says he’s imported more than 40,000 Creative Commons music torrents from Jamendo.com.
“We hope that with more people aware of CC and choosing to share their content using it, much wider sharing and re-mixing using BitTorrent distribution will happen under permissive licensing, following footsteps of Open Source software which had been the driving force behind adoption of the BitTorrent protocol,” he states.
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September, 2009
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