http://netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/p2p?feed=rss&pg=1 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "p2p" on Netvouz http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/ Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the emmineb Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:57:50 GMT http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/02/the-once-and-future-e-book.ars# A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books. I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, economic, and political hornet's nest. But thanks to some good initial decisions (more on those later), little Peanut Press did pretty well for itself in those first few years, eventually having a legitimate claim to its self-declared title of "the world's largest e-book store." emmineb Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:34:12 GMT http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections. Find out more in the introduction. emmineb Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:29:57 GMT http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/01/fox_commits_copyrigh.html Fox has invented a new copyright law: the right to control who links to clips of your work. They're sending takedown notices to websites that link to supposedly infringing clips on YouTube: emmineb Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:22:04 GMT http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1 323 speed test sites ordered by location <<adsl>> emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:19:08 GMT http://bytlanas.se/ emmineb Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:31:28 GMT http://www.flixflux.co.uk/ Find torrents for the latest films and dvd releases emmineb Mon, 28 May 2007 09:37:57 GMT http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/02/10/how_to_send_large_files.htm Private P2P file sharing tools like Grouper, TrustyFiles or even Groove, QNext and several others are possible solutions, but they are not as popular or as easy to adopt for users needing to send a large file on an occasional basis. Thankfully, several vendors have recognized the need for a Web-based file exchange service to answer this market demand, and offer products ranging from bare-bones file uploading services (targeted mostly to individuals and home users) to fully customizable secure online file storage and distribution systems. If you have experience with these and other vendors (we're adding more — there's a lot of them!), please share them in the comments section. emmineb Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:03:41 GMT http://wiki.ffii.org/Ipred2060510En Analysis of the IP Enforcement Directive text (IPRED2) proposed by the European Commission on 2 May 2006. The Commission bulldozes through criminal law, completely mixes up infringement and organised crime and at the same time manages to exceed its legislative competence. emmineb Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:31:52 GMT http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13097814 <<stigmergy>><<management>>DICTATORS and authoritarians will disagree, but democracies work better. It has long been held that decisions made collectively by large groups of people are more likely to turn out to be accurate than decisions made by individuals. The idea goes back to the “jury theorem” of Nicolas de Condorcet, an 18th-century French philosopher who was one of the first to apply mathematics to the social sciences. Now it is becoming clear that group decisions are also extremely valuable for the success of social animals, such as ants, bees, birds and dolphins. And those animals may have a thing or two to teach people about collective decision-making. emmineb Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:41:58 GMT