Archive for category: Peer To Peer

California State Senator introduces Stupid Legislation

January 19, 2005 | Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, Peer To Peer | By: Mark VandeWettering

I know, I know, this should come as no real surprise. California legislators craft stupid, unconstitutional legislation every day. But Kevin Murray has introduced a law which would fine or imprison anyone who “sells, offers for sale, advertises, distributes, disseminates, provides or otherwise makes available” software that allows users to connect to networks that can […]

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Slashdot | Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

December 21, 2004 | Intellectual Property, Peer To Peer | By: Mark VandeWettering

Slashdot has some followup on the weekend’s BitTorrent shutdowns. Apparently there were some arrests over the weekend, and many threats of arrest. Haven’t had time to go over them in any detail (off to Christmas shop) but check ’em out.

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Ugly python made better

December 20, 2004 | Peer To Peer, Python | By: Mark VandeWettering

Here you can find a tidier p2p program inspired by tinyp2p. It seems to use the Set datatype, so is probably specific to python 2.4, and is not compatible with tinyp2p, but it is much easier to read.

Black Sunday For BitTorrent

December 19, 2004 | Intellectual Property, Peer To Peer | By: Mark VandeWettering

Slashdot is reporting that TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org have gone dark. There seems to be little really solid news as to the reason, but widespread speculation is some kind of crackdown on illegal copying. When more details are available, I will likely have more to say about it, but for now I merely point out that […]

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