In reception to therecent flurry of aggressive takedownsagainst P2P and piracy - related website , a group of computer programmer is work on a Modern , decentralised system that would make knowledge domain inaccessible . TheDot - P2Pproject is partially powered , befittingly enough , by BitTorrent .
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The job — if you ’re either running or shop at a website that runs afoul of US right of first publication legal philosophy — is that it ’s super sluttish for your site to be knocked offline , should a court give the OK . It might sound like a gross generalization , but an tremendous part of the internet is essentially own by the United States . ICANN , responsible for for handing out and maintaining the sphere suffixes ( .com , .org , and the rest ) is part of the US Department of Commerce , and work closely with sphere registrars . So when a US court decided that strike medicine sharing land site OnSmash.com ( among others ) had leaked its last album , yanking the land from under its feet was a breeze .
The alternative organization would direct browsers to .p2p sphere , through a decentralise , BitTorrent - style system . No ICANN , no motor hotel hinderance , and , presumably , no takedown . The project already has the mount of major net rebels likePirate Bay co - founder Peter Sundeand torrent powerhouse EZTV . Dot - P2P is still in its infancy , but , as Sunde himself commented , is transmit a clarion message : “ If they try anything , we have weapons of making it harder for them to abuse it . If they then back down , we win . ” Just how righteous a conflict this is reckon on your views of right of first publication jurisprudence , but it ’s an interesting take on web liberty nonetheless . [ TorrentFreak ]
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