Legal BitTorrent Communities for Class Presentation? 73
OnBeyondBeing asks: "A few of my friends and I are taking a class at a local university called 'Internet and Society' and we have to do a 'Technology Tour' on innovations that have social aspects or uses (like Google Maps, Kiko (an Internet-based calendar), LiveJournal and Frappr). We chose to do our presentation on BitTorrent. As part of our presentation, we have to do a lab in which the students and teachers use BitTorrent in some way. I was thinking of having people join some BitTorrent community that interests them and join a torrent, but most of these communities contain material that is not suited for an academic presentation. Aside from places like CommonBits and Etree (and others that were mentioned in a previous Slashdot post), what sites have you found that use BitTorrent as the basis of a community that are clean and legal enough for a class presentation? Alternatively, what other interesting, legal uses of BitTorrent have you found?"
Linux Torrents (Score:5, Informative)
There are always Linux Torrents [linuxtracker.org]
We have a winner. (Score:1)
Re:We have a winner. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:We have a winner. (Score:2)
Re:We have a winner. (Score:1)
Ibiblio (Score:2, Informative)
Cringely's NerdTV (Score:5, Informative)
Plus it's educational! (Score:1, Insightful)
Anime (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Anime (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Anime (Score:2)
Re:Anime (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Anime (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Anime (Score:1)
Re:Anime (Score:2)
Re:Anime (Score:2)
Yes they have. Media Factory is one that has actually threatened litigation, but think about it. All the creators speak Japanese and live in Japan. International litigation is expensive (plus Japanese lawyers are even more expensive than ours), and most don't seem to know this is going on anyway. Whenever the fansub issue does come up at conventions, the Japanese guests are shocked and often outraged. And what do you even mean by "b
Re:Anime (Score:2)
Are you sure? I'm no expert on this kind of stuff (only started downloading anime recently, although been buying it for a while), but it was my understanding that the whole fansubs thing was difficult to miss. It's been going on since the mid eighties, it can build up huge support for titles to be released over in america and europe (Azumanga Daioh being the obvious example) and it's not exactly hidden (a search on google brings up around 2 million re
Re:Anime (Score:2)
(From my bookmark list) (Score:3, Informative)
ETree - Legal Bootleg Torrents [etree.org]
Open Source Torrents [filesoup.com]
Re:(From my bookmark list) (Score:1)
Legal Torrents (Score:4, Informative)
electric sheep has novel use of torrents (Score:2, Informative)
World of Warcraft (Score:2)
Re:World of Warcraft (Score:1)
ETree (Score:1)
Re:ETree (Score:2)
http://www.thetradersden.org/ [thetradersden.org]
http://www.cotapers.org/ [cotapers.org]
Re:ETree (Score:2)
Tradersden: similar to dimeadozen
COTapers: Now we're getting somewhere! Legal, but (mostly) limited to Colorado shows. Very tiny compared to Etree. There's a similar site for New Orleans, but I lost the link, unfortunately. There are also small sites devoted to particular bands (e.g. FishboneLive.org [fishbonelive.org].
But if the original poster doesn't think Etree is "suited for an academic presentation", then I doubt i
Re:ETree (Score:1)
Why is dimeadozen "not legal" and etree & cotapers legal? They all seem to follow the same standards (nothing commercial, bands must be taper friendly, etc). From the dimeadozen FAQ:
Pure Pwnage (Score:1)
here, let me do your homework for you... (Score:2)
Note that you could have used Google for that one.
And if you want to call SXSW a community, here [citizenpod.com] is a link to their free MP3 archive torrent for 2006. There's a 2005 you can Google for, too.
Damn! (Score:3, Informative)
But then again, we had Gopher, not Google, so I'll shut up.
Anyway, off the top of my head, Democracy player [getdemocracy.com] is a combination video player, RSS reader and torrent client that hooks up a community of legal (well, most of it) video distribution.
It was also announced this week that Steven Soderbergh will be releasing a short through BitTorrent. (I'll let you find the link, you hard working student.)
xandros/suse (Score:1)
Re:xandros/suse (Score:1)
Open Office (Score:2)
Fandom (Score:4, Interesting)
promotion of music (Score:4, Informative)
Gutenberg? (Score:1)
Red vs. Blue (Score:2)
Songfight (Score:2)
Re:Songfight (Score:1)
Songfight is a semi-weekly music competition where artists / bands / etc compose a song based on a title chosen by the "Fightmaster". The following week, all the compositions are posted and voted-on.
How did you make sure that none of your entrants subconsciously copied an existing work that they had heard 10 years ago on the radio? (See Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music, the "My Sweet Lord" case.) If you required all artists to warrant that they had done this checking themselves, what method did yo
Re:Songfight (Score:2)
How did you make sure that none of your entrants subconsciously copied an existing work that they had heard 10 years ago on the radio? (See Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music, the "My Sweet Lord" case.) If you required all artists to warrant that they had done this checking themselves, what method did you suggest that they use?
I don't run the site, so I don't see it as my problem. Believe me, I'm as angry and frustrated by the silliness in the U.S. "intellectual property" law as you appear to be. It
Independant musicians and labels (Score:1)
Public Domain Torrents (Score:3, Informative)
AMPFEA.ORG (Score:2, Interesting)
We use Torrents on AMPFEA.ORG [ampfea.org], which is a community made for people who want a way to put their original-content (only) material online free of charge.
If its free to the world, its free to use AMPFEA.ORG
(Archives Made Persistent For Everyones Access..)
Copying by accident? (Score:1)
If its free to the world, its free to use AMPFEA.ORG .. we discourage mis-use and abuse by active community audits
Once your audit turns up a work that a user claims to have created and believes in good faith that he has created but turns out to be substantially similar to a work published a decade ago, which is likely to happen by accident in the case of music [slashdot.org], what sanctions if any are imposed on the user? Or is the work simply removed? I couldn't find a Terms of Service on the site.
NASA (Score:1)
This Week In Tech (Score:1)
Revision3 [revision3.com] also distributes their shows on bittorrent.
Humorous Juxtaposition (Score:2)
what's the difference if it's legal or not? (Score:2)
New 'Group Torrents' system (Score:1)
An average visitor will view the 'torrents' page and be able to search, sort and/or download all the freeware, open source and copyright free/allowed 'community torrents' while a mitosis member that belongs to a group (or multiple groups) will view the torrents page and s
knoppix trackers (Score:1)
Game Updates (Score:1)
R.E.M.'s "Give It Away" (Score:1)