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PBS | I, Cringely . June 30, 2005 - Accessories Make the Nerd
well not actually dissenting, he makes the point that p2p apps in the future will be more API's of multiple services and less monolithic. Welcome to Web 2.0

And it brings us back to Grokster and the Supreme Court. Grokster wanted to be seen as a common carrier like the telephone company. Just because telephones can be used to plan and sometimes carry out crimes doesn't make the phone company a criminal accessory. But Grokster, the Court decided, was built more with the intention of illegally sharing music than the phone company was built to aid kidnappers. So Grokster IS a criminal accessory in the eyes of the court.

What will happen, of course, is that Web 2.0 will turn the next Grokster into several separate organizations offering different services that use a common API syntax to create a Grokster equivalent. Each of these parts will look more like the phone company and less like Grokster until the Supreme Court won't recognize them as the accessories they happen to be.

TinyP2P
how much overhead would a gui wrapper add to a win32 port???

TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless.

BitTorrent and perl at bklyn.org
Interesting link. Some perl code for BitTorrent functions.

BitTorrent is the best P2P file sharing protocol to come around in a long while, maybe ever. The canonical implementation has been written in Python , but someone is working on a C++ implementation of the protocol as well.

a Perl module which implements the BitTorrent bencode and bdecode serialization algorithms.

Swarm Radio - a cheaper, faster 'casting tech
Block this RIAA!

Alluvium "streams" Ogg. It's an umbrella project that uses some existing technologies - such as Tornado's swarm downloading - with the initial goal of providing a better IceCast than IceCast.

"It offers between 10 per cent and 90 per cent bandwidth savings," says Wiley. The worst case for Alluvium is Icecast - always going to be better than IceCast."