MetaFilter posts tagged with p2p and internet

The problem with music, redux.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:16:20 -0800

While Courtney pulled an Albini, Jeff handed out the bread. Are the peasants acting like emperors, or do they still want something shiny, aluminum, plastic, and digital? Debacle or cage, something's got to give (pdf). Alternatively, you can just roll your own.

The Croquet Project - Web 2.0

MetaMonkey — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:37:29 -0800

The Croquet Project is a staggeringly ambitious attempt to create 'an operating system for the post-browser Internet' - a multi-platform, open-source, extensible, decentralised, peer-to-peer, 3D virtual reality metaverse [2,3], designed for 'highly scalable deep collaboration', led by Alan Kay.

P2P Telephony

davehat — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:08:38 -0800

Skype, a new P2P Telephony service from the people who created KaZaA. [more inside]

Music Industry looses in court

thedailygrowl — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:42:20 -0800

Federal judge rules Morpheus, Grokster not liable for Internet piracy. Well that is until the big pocketed music industry finds a favorable judge and wins the appeal.

badstone — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:56:48 -0800

Intel Likes the Napster Way (Wired Article). So, we've had Napster, and its counterparts, and we've had all sorts of cheerleading for P2P. P2P has taken off in a big way in the way of IMing, and in a smaller way via projects like SETI@home. Now there's a major corp using it for internal practices in a big way. Are any of you seeing any interesting uses of P2P where you work?

TuxHeDoh — Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:48:16 -0800

Napigator -Your Navigator to internet audio- Napigator lets you see real-time server statistics and ping times. Allowing you to make the decision of which server you connect to based upon the number of users, files, gigabytes, and network lag.