p2p helps tsunami victims
p2pnet.net News:- You could call the Net the ultimate p2p application, a fact frequently over-looked by all too many mainstream print and electronic press reporters in their rush to pump out entertainment industry-produced propaganda that p2p – peer-to-peer – is BAD.
However, that its uses spread far beyond merely sharing music and movies online has been amply demonstrated by the way it’s being used to help tsunami victims.
“Many people are making donations via websites or going online to see how they can get involved with aid efforts,” says India’s New Kerala.
“Many are visiting some aid-related sites that some webpages were struggling to cope with the traffic.
“An umbrella organisation called the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has been set up by a coalition of 12 charities and has been taking many donations via its specially created website.”
By January 1, the site had received almost £8 million (well over $15 million), with more than 11,000 donations being made online every hour, says New Kerala.
That’s what the Net and p2p are all about.
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See:-
aid efforts – Internet helps in collecting 8 m pounds for tsunami victims!, New Kerala, January 1, 2005
12 charities – DEC TSUNAMI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL
January 1st, 2005 at 11:57 pm
And here I thought it was just about porn and music
January 2nd, 2005 at 1:06 am
While there are those who will claim that P2P file sharing is different than the Internet, all we have to do is go back less than a decade and remember that the same things that are said about P2P applications today was said about the end-to-end designed TCP/IP that underlies the Internet in the past.
There really is nothing new here from the dinosaurs, just more attempts to shut down some of the most important advancements in human communications. That these advancements question outdated business models should be met by governments with a “so what” rather than dark-ages style attempts to roll back the clock.
Russell McOrmond – http://www.flora.ca/russell/