BitTorrent
*planted: 17/07/2020last tended: 27/11/2021
BitTorrent’s launch in 2001 enabled file-sharing on a massive, efficient and resilient scale. By embedding the decentralised ideology beneath the desktop client, and within the protocol on which the client runs, the act of file-sharing became much more resistant to legislative attack. To many of its supporters and combatants, BitTorrent seemed unstoppable.
– This is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the Decentralised Network
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1.1. In my garden
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