And this time, it got enough diggs to make it to the front page! W00t! I am SO psyched about this. It might just get it the extra exposure it REALLY needs to go nova. Digg should provide plenty of eager beta testers, and honestly, the program runs great for where it is in it’s dev cycle.

Anyway, PLEASE DIGG IT!!! PLEASE! We need your support!

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UPDATE: There is another OFF centric story on Digg! Check it out:

Darknets are SO last century. Why not go Brightnet! Why break the law when you don’t have to. Hackers have found a way to share stuff without violating copyright.

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Tags: +Peer 2 Peer+; +Technology+

OK, so it’s just a 0.10 alpha release, but IT WORKS (for me, at least). It’s a bright-net concept that relies on the untested belief that (in abstract) while someone could copyright the car (program) you built out of Lego’s (bits and bytes), and someone else could copyright a Lego duck, they can’t both copyright the Lego pieces on their own.

Go and download the wonderful program here (direct link):
EDIT: Most recent version is 0.10.03, not .02. Fixed, thanks Earsausage!
http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/installers/OFFSystem-0.10.03.exe

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Tags: +Peer 2 Peer+; +Technology+

Well, I’m sure many of my readers have used a peer to peer… er, never mind. I’m sure many of my readers are, well, Jebus, I don’t know.

Bagh, if I get any readers, I’m sure that eventuly, ONE of them will have used a peer-to-peer program, such as Napster, Imesh, Kazaa, or Shareaza (the last one is fantastic, and as such is the only one I’ll list a link to: http://www.shareaza.com/). Oh, by the way, DON’T USE KAZAA! It’s EVIL!!!

Now, dear reader (that’s right, I’m talking to you), you might be nervious of P2P software because of all the hullabalu in the papers recently about the RIAA (http://www.riaa.org). Or, perhaps you just want your freedom of speach protected. Well, there’s a partial solution for your privite wishis: Entropy (http://entropy.stop1984.com/).

It’s built to interface with Freenet (http://freenet.sourceforge.net/, but to also be much more effecient (it’s all coded in C). I’m looking forward to using it for a while, just to see how it works.

Basicly, it’s the closest thing we have right now to an annomous form of online communication. Sure, the folks over at The Big Hack (http://www.thebighack.org) are working hard to provide a solution that doesn’t require sneaking about, but ’till that’s around, we’re just going to have to live with the alternatives, such as our good friend Entropy (once more, that’s http://entropy.stop1984.com/).

Power to the masses, let democracy show!