Substantial Non-Infringing p2p
p2pnet.net News :- "Since my last Slashdot entry, I’ve been discussing various copyright issues with the ever-interesting Peter Fader," posts linuxizer on /.
"Out of those conversations came sniu.info, an attempt to document the various forms of substantial, non-infringing use over peer-to-peer networks before MGM v Grokster goes to the Supreme Court. So far I have about 50 entries, but more suggestions would be much appreciated. Some fellow /. readers might also be interested in my fairly regular posts on copyright/IP issues, which are mostly links to interesting articles with occasional commentary."
Interesting indeed.
By way of taster, and since Bram Cohen’s masterpiece is so much in the news, of late, here are the entries so far for BitTorrent Substantial Non-Infringing Uses:
Linux Distributions
World
of Warcraft, a Blizzard game, uses BT for its Blizzard Downloader.
(Thanks to Neal Neal and others for this one).
Etree.org aids the sharing of
trade-friendly artists. (Thanks to ‘garcia’)
LegalTorrents,
self-explanatory. (Thanks to ‘jhalludel’)
FreeAudio, makes audio recordings of important public domain texts and encourages P2P distribution. (Thanks to Art Pollard).
Anarchy Online, game distributed via BT.
Eve Online, game patched via BT.
KingIsKong.net, distributing production diary videos and interviews with Director Peter Jackson via BT. (Thanks to ‘krbvroc1′).
FileRush, uses BT to distribute legal files of all kinds.(Thanks to ‘AIX-Hood’).
BT Podcasting, a HOWTO. (Thanks to ‘Augie de Blieck’).
P2P Congress, more
political SNIU.
INDUCE
Act hearings, via BitTorrent.
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See:-
non-infringing - Sought for MGM v. Grokster: Non-Infringing P2P Use, slashdot, December 20, 2004
December 21st, 2004 at 9:33 am
Project Gutenberg features magnet links to allow download of it’s freely available ebooks.
“In early 2004, Project Gutenberg added a Magnetlink download option to search results pages (we call them “BIBREC” pages, as contraction of “BIBliographic RECord”). You can search via Find an eBook. Magnetlinks is an open standard for peer to peer file sharing. More information is available at magnetlinks.org. After adding a Magnetlink plugin to your Web browser, a Magnetlink will automatically search on peer to peer networks you are connected to, and offer to download there.”
see:
http://www.gutenberg.org/howto/p2p-howto
December 21st, 2004 at 1:17 pm
http://www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_campaigns/freecampaign
December 21st, 2004 at 11:21 pm
How about http://www.gamephilez.us? The site uses P2P to distribute only legal game related files. Its unfinished as yet but it looks promising.
I’m working on my own site making legitimate use of P2P but thats not ready for a big release just yet. If only I didn’t have a life to attend to…
Higgy.
December 22nd, 2004 at 12:04 am
yah, gamephilez is cool, I know the guy who is running it, I actually came up with the logo and design etc for it
TT
December 22nd, 2004 at 2:07 am
Creative Common’s Material, Copyleft Music, Film and Publication, any media that has fallen out of copyright status and is not retained, instant communication and community.
December 22nd, 2004 at 1:52 pm
In the background on my firewall (A Fedora Core box) at home is BitTorrent, doing my part to distribute TheOpenCD 2.0 out to those who want it this season. I consider Open Source on Microsoft Windows to be one of the most important ways to give people a taste of the future.
http://TheOpenCD.org/
Russell McOrmond — http://www.flora.ca/russell/
December 24th, 2004 at 7:13 pm
Home computer magazine have just started and they distribute via BT. http://www.homecomputermagazine.com/issue1_p28.htm