 6 Sep 2007 @ 07:28
I thought this was fitting for our purposes -- and in the same vein as some of my recent posts about the nature of money and alternative currencies.
What is Tribler?
Tribler is a social community that facilitates filesharing through a so called peer-to-peer (p2p) network. A p2p network is structural different to a server-computer structure, where every user downloads its files from one central server. Within p2p the user/downloader becomes also an uploader to the next user. In this way there is no central computer that provides every file to all users.
Pretty cool! That reminds me of the other, big, decentralizing technology just around the corner: MESH networking.
Here's a good little article about Tribler from New Scientist Tech.
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