Napster is Dead! Long Live Napster!

Well, the spirit of napster, anyway. Sorry, I know I said that there would be something of substance, but thanks to the following article on Techcrunch, I've spent the last two days watching scrubs on GoFish... I mean, just looking at the listings. I'm not confessing anything here. I'm not under oath. God, don't you pigs have anything better to do?

Forget YouTube: Go To These Sites If You Want Hard Core Copyright Infringing Content Michael Arrington 97 comments »

YouTube is clearly the most popular video sharing site on the web. But limits on video length, DMCA takedown notices and billion dollar lawsuits have damaged YouTube’s ability to facilitate serious copyright infringement. The smaller guys are now stepping in to fill the void.

Full length copies of well known TV shows and/or movies are readily available on a number of YouTube competitors. Watch, for example, The Office on DailyMotion, Scrubs on GoFish, or SouthPark on Veoh...

Alternatives

Well, allpeers, while not being bad per se, didn't live up to my expectations. In all fairness, after all this buildup it would have been nigh on impossible to meet my expectations. Anything short of printing out pure Au would have failed. On the bright side however, Psyc has released psychzilla (wiki), which comes oh so close to my dream of a distributed peer-to-peer social network with chat, mail, homepages and filesharing. I really thought that I was going to have to embed torrent binaries in rss pages, broadcast them with feedtree, and pull it all together with a Firefox extension, a torrent extension and jabberzilla or mozchat(now called mango). Whew. Now you see why that wasn't such a good idea. more later.

The Socialized Net

After years of dreaming and more time searching than I care to admit, I seem to have found something very close to that for which I was looking. I have long dreamed of a decentralized "social network" that would allow users to communicate and exchange data. The Socialized.net is probably as close as I will get without writing it my own damn self. It would appear that there are four components implemented at the moment:

The TSN dameon A Gaim TSN plugin A firefox search (mycroft) TSN plugin An Azureus torrentsearch TSN plugin

Using the TSN dameon, you connect to the decentralized network. You can then chat with other members using the Gaim plugin, search for arbitrary content with the firefox plugin, and search for torrents witht he Azureus plugin.