p2p. People to people. U2ME
p2p news / p2pnet: I’ve just been re-reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club.
Great book, good movie. Even if it was made by 20th Century Fux.
“Remember this,” Tyler said. “The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges.
“We control every part of your life.”
The executives who run the entertainment and software cartels, and the other corporate control clubs, should have that in neon lights, hanging on the walls in their offices.
The Net means instant communication.
For the first time in history, information is unbridled.
People to people.
Sony BMG tried to plant spyware on your computers.
Talk about dumping on your own door-step.
It’s the entertainment industry’s worst-ever PR disaster. A nightmare come true.
The lamescream media are now trumpeting it full blast around the world. But blogs and news sites kicked it off.
And this is only the beginning.
Online news and information resources are already surplanting the traditional media.
Next up?
An explosion in podcasting.
And then vlogging.
All the unspun news and all the unspun information sent to desktops, PDAs, game consoles, mobile phones, FreeWans, Wi-Fi laptops, you name it, and all via sophisticated open source p2p technologies.
“What happens when everyone is uploading far more than they download?” – asks Wired Magazine’s Kevin Kelley. “If everyone is busy making, altering, mixing and mashing, who will have time to sit back and veg out? Who will be a consumer?
“No one. And that’s just fine. A world in which production outpaces consumption should not be sustainable; that’s a lesson from economics 101. But online, where many ideas that don’t work in theory succeed in practice, the audience increasingly doesn’t matter.
“What matters is the network of social creation, the community of collaborative interaction that futurist Alvin Toffler called prosumption.
“As with blogging and BitTorrent, prosumers produce and consume at once. The producers are the audience, the act of making is the act of watching, and every link is both a point of departure and a destination.”
Interesting times.
JN
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
November 20th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
The last time that such an invention revolutionized the world and gave common people immense power was when Gutenburg invented the printing press. Even though the printing press was too expensive to be owned by every common man, enough people were able to have access to it in order to help throw off the rule of one of the most powerful oppressors (The Catholic Church). The few printing pressess that were out there distributed materials to the common people. The Internet is like the printing press except that nearly everyone who is not (yet) in abject poverty can own one.
For a few hunded dollars (or even less if the equipment is used) and a little bit of brainpower, ANYONE can be a publisher. This ability of the common man to put out information to the massess is an ability the TERRIFIES the cartels, governments, courts, and their propaganda machine i.e. LameScream media. They are SO TERRIFIED, that they are now trying to squeeze the genie back into the bottle.
Since the LameScreen media no longer controls the flow of information, it is working to buy the very conduit of the freeflow of information. It is buying out the Internet Service providers and has been doing so for many years. Look at how many ISP’s that have been bought out by the media cartels. Most of the so called independent ISP’s have been effectively pushed out of business by the local telcos. They may still operate under their own name and have their own individual websires, but they operate under the rules of their new providers or company. When the last of the Independent ISP’s are bought out by the cartels, the cartels will work to implement pricing models for Internet access that will stifle the free flow of information. This is happening right now as I type out this blog.
As the Net once treated censorship as failure and routed around it, there will be a time when all alternative routes will out of the price range of average people. Only those with a “partnership” will be exempt for paying for their information to be streamed to the masses. In order for this to not happen, we the people must provide our own infrastructure. This infrastructure may be in the form of FreeWan’s, Municiple networks (Muni nets), or even sneaker nets (carrying CD’s, DVD,s, or thumbdrives physiucally from computer to computer). Each of these networks allow people to communicate with other people without the blessings of the catel-government alliances. I will explain the similarities and differences between these alternative networks.
Municiple Networks (Muni-nets): These are local networks created via the cooperation of people and local governments. They are either free or low cost.
They are basically minature versions of the Internet contained in a local area. Many of these Muni-nets are also connected to the Internet while others are not.
The amount and type of infromation transfer between computers on a muni-net is determined by the equipment used by participants as well as the enforcement of any rules by the governing body (usually a city council or some comittee). The network is usually set up by a team of volunteers who have a good degree of computer knowlege. People with average computer intelligence are able to connect to and use a muni-net. Equipment required for a muninet runs in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars purchased new. The speed of communications can range from slow to nearly instantaneous depending on the number of simultaneous users and the capabilities of the equipment.
FreeWans: FreeWans are almost the same thing as a local Muni-net. The main difference between a muni-net and a FreeWan Cell is that the FreeWan Cell is usually governed by one or two people who provide the equipment. Equipment needed to set up a freeWan usually runs about a few hundred dollars if purchased new. The speed of communications can range from slow to nearly instantaneous depending on the number of simultaneous users and the capabilities of the equipment
Sneaker Nets: Sneaker Nets are the oldest form of computer information transfer.
The First Sneaker Net was created when the first punch card was passed from one person to another. As time passed, the technology improved. The punch card became the floppy disk. The floppy disk became the burnable CDROM. The Burnable CDROM became the burnable DVD, thumbdrive, laptop computer, PDA or other device capable of holding massive amounts of information. Sneakernets were also recorded cassettes mailed from person to person. The SneakerNet is only governed by the sender and receiver of infomation. The SneakerNet has a tremendous amount of bandwidth. For a few bucks, it is possible to tranfer a terabyte of information across the country (via snail mail). The equipment required to setup a sneakernet can be less that a hundred dollars for new equipment, or it can range to several hunred dollars. Usually, all that is required is a computer and a cd or DVD burner. A group of people passing information from one person to another makes a very effective sneakernet. A person can belong to one, or a many sneakernets. A person with basic computer skills should be able to receive information from and contribute information to a sneaker net.
With these thre alternatives to the Internet, it will be possible for us to continue to receive and generate information regardless od the wishes of the corporate-government alliances which seek to keep us enslaved.
November 20th, 2005 at 8:35 pm
The articles and comments on this site are far beyond what the people making the laws are thinking about. We must harness this P2P to ensure that the politicians are educated. While there are some that are either too closed minded, or are too dependant on money from the incumbents (either collecting royalties or bribes), I truly believe that the vast majority of politicians are simply uninformed.
Canada will be heading into an election soon. We need to ensure that every candidate and every future MP hears from us. We aren’t consumers but citizens, and need to act that way!
http://digital-copyright.ca/