eardrumbuzz: edbdigital media trends(Untitled)- December 15, 2004 P2P in 15 Lines of Code. 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. For more information about TinyP2P, see http:www.freedom-to-tinker.comtinyp2p.html. Freedom to Tinkerhttp://www.eardrumbuzz.com/blog/categories/edb/2004/12/15.html#a1110 (Untitled)- December 15, 2004 Switched On: TiVo should skip ahead and kill subscription fees. Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column about the future of technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: The sworn enemy of the savvy consumer is the asterisk. This pesky punctuation can sweep the wind from the sails of enthusiasm around a product. At best, it connotes a complication. At worst, it signals that something here is too good to be true, the company is overpromising, and that you better...http://www.eardrumbuzz.com/blog/categories/edb/2004/12/15.html#a1109 |