Which Industry

-       Online Distribution

What am I asking

-       How has the P2P community helped the industry mature?

Companies/Sites

-       The Pirate Bay - content based site, community based around quality of uploads and user feedback

-       P2P.net - People 2 People, completely community based

-       BitTorrent - An American based company that develops content delivery freeware, as well as licenced content delivery services based around the bittorrent protocol.

Resources

-       Lots of stuff on blogs

Blog community – copyrightsandcampaigns

-       Joelfightsback.com

-       Technology sites.

-       Online news sites.

Issues

-       Lack of journal and scholarly articles

-       Find credible blogs and opinion pieces.

Brief Findings

- The community galvanises around cases like Joel Tenenbaum

-  The community backlashes against authority and restrictions to file sharing, the Pirate party, which is related to the Pirate Bay site? in sweden has won two seats in the swedish government, it advocates freedom of file sharing

- BitTorrent is an example of how the industry has matured, and is a professional company, providing commercial solutions using its industry standard protocols. Acquired uTorrent in 2006

- When The Pirate Bay torrent tracker shut down, the p2p community came up with a solution, a bittorrent tracker using googles servers and search engines.

- P2Pnet.net is a community based site with news on technology, torrent clients and politics relating file sharing.