Bittorrent

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The mainstream media is not a reliable source of news and information. It is largely controlled by big business and vested interests. It is in a very real sense a mechanism for distributing propaganda.

Websites like youtube are very good for sharing informational videos. However bandwidth costs money. Google could stop financing youtube at any time. Google could also succumb to corporate pressure to censor their material.

Bittorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. The system allows people that are downloading a file to also upload the file to other people. The end result is the source of the information is not overly burdened, in terms of bandwidth used.

Bittorrent can be used to acquire just about any piece of information you could ever want. Certainly it can be used to violate copyright. You can find 700 megabyte files in mpeg-4 format of just about any Hollywood video you could want, especially new releases. You can also find whole collections of mp3 audio files by groups and artists. You can find games and software. Copyright is simply not a factor in what is made available.

More importantly you can find information outside the normal media channels. Bittorrent is not a controlled source. If there is a message you want to convey, in the form of a video, you can share it via bittorrent and you won't get bankrupted by the bandwidth requirements.

A very good way of finding bittorrent files is to simply do a google search for some keywords of the content, and add "torrent" in the search list. You'll find lots of links. Follow some, and you'll eventually be lead to the torrent file, which ends in .torrent usually. You need to have installed a bittorrent client and configured it, and if you're behind a firewall perhaps configure the firewall to pass certain ports through to your machine. When it's working properly, the bittorrent client will open your .torrent file, and a while later the download will start. You'll see data coming in at a variable rate, and also you'll see you're serving data to others as well. At some point, from minutes to days, the download is complete and you can examine it.

All is not as it seems in the world. I would recommend looking for torrents or videos with the following names:

[*] Money as Debt -- explains how money works in the world economy
[*] The Money Masters -- explains how international bankers gained control of America
[*] America: Freedom Or Fascism -- Aaron Russo's account of the fraudulent creation of the IRS and Federal Reserve
[*] Steal This Film, parts 1 and 2 -- This is a documentary about peer-to-peer file sharing, and will open your eyes
[*] The Great Global Warming Swindle -- This talks about global warming. It is a powerful message, in answer to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"
[*] Cracking The Code: The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America -- Hendrickson's guidebook on how to pay nothing in IRS taxes, legally
[*] Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers -- A documentary about the corruption and waste in our foreign "War On Terror" wars
[*] Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism -- About how rich people and individuals can gain control of the news media
[*] End Game - Alex Jones' disturbing video on the shadowy groups who control governments and want to reduce most of the world to slavery

Educate yourself about these things. You might come to realize all is not as it seems in the world.

-Dave

[arm77]

Unfortunately, Bittorrent traffic can be filtered. Sure, there are workarounds, but that often requires a good deal of technical knowledge. What we need is to implement military-grade encryption on all internet traffic, so that all traffic looks the same....

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Unfortunately, Bittorrent traffic can be filtered. Sure, there are workarounds, but that often requires a good deal of technical knowledge. What we need is to implement military-grade encryption on all internet traffic, so that all traffic looks the same....

I think if any big filtering goes on, the client will just mutate. Also there will be big public outcry. Too many people are addicted to P2P now. It all started with napster. The only way to stop it is to shut down the internet.

-Dave

[arm77]

I think if any big filtering goes on, the client will just mutate. Also there will be big public outcry. Too many people are addicted to P2P now. It all started with napster. The only way to stop it is to shut down the internet.

The ISP won't be that obvious. Comcast has been accused of throttling bandwidth - you get lousy bandwitdh if you have a bittorrent client running but automagically becomes fast when you stop the client. This will force people to reduce bittorrent usage without appearing heavy-handed. I hope the bittorrent folks continue to improve the protocol and add encryption.

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The ISP won't be that obvious. Comcast has been accused of throttling bandwidth - you get lousy bandwitdh if you have a bittorrent client running but automagically becomes fast when you stop the client. This will force people to reduce bittorrent usage without appearing heavy-handed. I hope the bittorrent folks continue to improve the protocol and add encryption.

I think the issue is ISP's note file sharers can use vastly more bandwidth than average. Say 250 gigabytes per months where the average is 5. I don't mind them doing some throttling, if their capacity is being reached.

I just want them to keep building out their upstream capacity. I think internet service is skewed in the wrong direction. Having high download speeds but slow upload speeds is backwards -- it supports Cathedral style data servers. Having more upload capacity would be a Bazaar style data flow. I think 1 unit download capacity for 2 units upload capacity would be perfect, this would allow a binary tree type distribution mechanism for optimum P2P information flow.

-Dave

[dz20854]

Is the internet about to become 10,000 times faster?

Apparently, when CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project -- known as "the grid" -- is built atop completely fiber optic networks, and utilizes modern routing centers. By keeping traffic out of our current phone and data systems, the researchers have been able to achieve speeds heretofore unseen on previous networks. The system connects from CERN to 11 centers around the globe, and will be switched on when the Large Hadron Collider is activated, on what the group is calling "Red Button Day." Project heads believe a network with this speed will lead to all sorts of futuristic innovations -- like true cloud computing, holographic video conferencing, and really, really fast pirating of the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/07/cern ... -people-t/

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Is the internet about to become 10,000 times faster?

What about the last mile problem? How does this translate into 100 megabit or 1 gigabit getting into the home?

-Dave

[dz20854]

A new technique in displaying search results-- SearchMe.com

Still in beta, results immediately appear as flying windows displaying complete web pages.

For example, type in "George Carlin", and select "video." A show will immediately start, playing one Carlin video after another, like a full length movie.

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A new technique in displaying search results-- SearchMe.com

Still in beta, results immediately appear as flying windows displaying complete web pages.

For example, type in "George Carlin", and select "video." A show will immediately start, playing one Carlin video after another, like a full length movie.

Pretty cool.

-Dave