p2pnet - rss feed: “Academic Napster” released
p2p news / p2pnet:- LionShare 1.0, a p2p application dubbed the "academic Napster" and designed specifically to “promote responsible academic and research-oriented file sharing on a secure and private P2P network,” was released yesterday at the Internet2 meeting in Philadelphia.
It’s the “culmination of two years of Mellon-funded research and development by Penn State, Internet2 and Simon Fraser University in Canada,” says a Penn State post.
The university was the first to buy wholeheartedly into the Big Four record label cartel’s University Marketing Scheme whereby the cartel doesn’t sue students if they buy its product.
The idea is to turn the students into ‘consumers’ before they develop a liking for anything else; and, to scupper appplications such as LimeWire.
Penn emphasises that LionShare was funded by Mellon. However nowhere in its rambling report does Penn mention that LionShare couldn’t have been started in the first place without LimeWire GPL (General Public License) code.
"This shows there is a place for unconstrained file sharing," LimeWire’s Greg Bildson told p2pnet a year ago.
"I’ve always been an advocate for using file sharing as a knowledge base in academic settings."
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See:-
Penn State - LionShare 1.0 to foster innovative advancements in academic file sharing, September 15, 2005
University Marketing Scheme - Big Music university shill report, September 21, 2005
unconstrained file sharing - Penn LionShare p2p code, September 30, 2004
