Tag Archive 'P2P'

The State v/s p2p’ers

Posted by gargi on 23 Oct 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

All through last year, and this - p2p sites have been served with notices. This image is going up on some that have been shut down.
It almost seems like a challenge. For everyone of the sites that they shut down a couple more come up. Moving into countries like Poland and Turkey where it [...]

Blog Day - 31st August 2005

Posted by gargi on 29 Aug 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

The mega event of blogdom is here - BlogDay2005 is around the corner.
What is BlogDay 2005?
BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.
With the [...]

The Empire Strikes Back

Posted by gargi on 27 Mar 2005 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

About two years ago, I discovered the joys of P2P. After experimenting with kazaa , neo napster , bearshare, I finally settled on e-mule - a great p2p client with a wonderful community thrown in.
In the last two years one of my favourite e-mule sites has been taken off. Share Reactor went down due to [...]

Reining in the Frontier

Posted by gargi on 26 Jun 2004 | Tagged as: Web

In an attempt to rein in filesharing, the US sentate has introduced a bill to bring heavy penalties, including upto 10 year jail sentances. In an attempt to stifle p2p, they plan also to impose penalties on devices that enable filesharing. This could include devices like ipod.
Wired reports
Technologists and copyright activists were most alarmed by [...]