Filesharing Review > Shirky on Social Networks and Filesharing

[GoldSounds] Shirky goes on to describe a new kind of system, one that is slowly evolving today, based on “trust networks”. Users invite each other to join networks of trust, smaller and even less centralised than the current generation of P2P networks (Gnutella, Kazaa, eDonkey etc).

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[Blogger.iftf.org] IFTF's Future Now: Clay Shirky's "File-sharing Goes Social": Clay Shirky has posted a great essay, "File-sharing Goes Social," on the ... Seeing this, Gnutella and Kazaa shifted to a mesh of nodes that could each act ...

[Dougsimpson.com] Unintended Consequences: VOIP: Shirky on "Plan A" / "Plan B": This essay is available at Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet, and was originally distributed 2/26/04 through his "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, by which the licensor (Clay Shirky) permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. In return, licensees must give the original author credit.

[Townx.zenwebhosting.com] townx | Clay Shirky's Blog: The RIAA has slowly altered the environment so that relativelyefficient systems like Napster were killed, opening up a niche formore decentralized systems like Gnutella and Kazaa. With their currentcampaign against Kazaa in full swing, we are about to see anothershift in network design, one that will have file sharers adoptingtools originally designed for secure collaboration in a corporatesetting.

[Pinds.com] Pind's Blog Archive: If Kazaa, Gnutella and others are severely damaged by the Crush the Connectors attack, users will either give up free file-sharing, or switch to less efficient social spaces. This might seem like an unalloyed win for the RIAA, but for one inconvenient fact: there are more people than are songs.

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