Mon, 1 Jan 2001 found Jim Carrico writing:
>>...what >exactly is lacking from the CDDB format that
>
>because they (Escient) took all the information painstakingly assembled and
>contributed by thousands of volunteers, and turned it into a proprietary
>and for-profit database. a lot of folks were truly pissed about that...
yeah I for one thought that was completely wack. there's a
useful thing for some hackers to do, break in and steal the
entire CDDB, for the public good.
>>>->the point of freenet and mojonation is encourage users
>>>->to make the *system resources* available
>
>system resources = bandwidth and disc space, in other words providing
>network infrastucture.
yeah but freenet's about more than that, to phrase it like
that is really missing the motivation, which is to provide a
way to put data on the Net that is *nearly impossible* to
remove, as a way of protecting freedom of speech.
Freenet, btw, was first mentioned on this list in March,
here:
http://www.detritus.net/contact/rumori/200005/0035.html
also, i recently saw a really interesting study by Jon
Orwant of O'Reilly on what the contents of Freenet seem to
be so far. here's the page:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/11/21/freenetcontent.html
good quote:
"if we were to indulge ourselves and
construct a demographic of the average
Freenet user from Freenet content, he'd be a
crypto-anarchist Perl hacker with a
taste for the classics of literature, political screeds,
1980s pop music, Adobe software, and
lots of porn."
Also here is a very recent piece by Ian Clarke, creator of
Freenet, responding to some criticisms of the software.
http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=vapourware
on the other hand, i have no idea what mojonation is.
somethign to do with Austin Powers? I hope not. :)
smh
Steev Hise, WebSlinger
steevATdetritus.net http://detritus.net/steev
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"The traditional notion of the 'neutrality' of technology can no
longer be maintained."
-Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
-----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------
Rumori, the Detritus.net Discussion List
to unsubscribe, send mail to majordomoATdetritus.net
with "unsubscribe rumori" in the message body.
----------------------------------------------------
Rumori list archives & other information are at
http://detritus.net/contact/rumori
----------------------------------------------------
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
N© Detritus.net. Sharerights extended to all.