Sharebeast Shut Down, Blockchain to fix bad File Sharing Companies?
File-sharing services have faced a ton of scrutiny in recent years, as public opinion on these platforms is generally positive; these services are perfect for sharing illegal content among Internet users. About a decade ago, warez sites were a pain in the neck for government officials around the world, but that period came to an abrupt end a few years ago. By the look of things, file sharing services won’t be around for much longer either. Gone are the days where platforms such as Napster, Bearshare, and Nucleus were the favorite file sharing applications on the Internet. More recently,....
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Grassroots efforts have defined much of recent technological history. Whether we're talking about file sharing via BitTorrent, disrupting money via bitcoin, or even the emergence of the web itself, innovation has often trickled up, rather than down. Even some of the companies that dominate today's Internet started small, and gained traction quickly. Could the next generation of sharing economy companies do the same, backed by cryptocurrency-like tokens? The sharing economy. The sharing economy is a potentially huge development. Also sometimes termed 'collaborative consumption' or 'the....
Regarding blockchain technology, file sharing is a vital aspect of all functionality, and Filecoin is a pioneer in the sector. The distinctive approach for this process is the decentralized nature of maintaining the process. Decentralized file sharing replaces the single-server method by storing data on several nodes or servers in a network. It then becomes […]
A growing number of peer-to-peer file-sharing sites -- among them the notorious The Pirate Bay -- is starting to accept bitcoin donations from their users. The main page of The Pirate Bay's website now lists a bitcoin address, presumably for donations. OpenBitTorrent has also joined the party, as has PublicBitTorrent. Istole.it also features a bitcoin address. As of yet, though, there is no sign of bitcoin adoption at Isohunt or its sister sites. Bitcoin's perceived anonymity makes it the perfect donation mechanism for file-sharing operations, many of which track copyrighted content being....
Kim Dotcom has announced that his upcoming cloud based file sharing platform MegaUpload 2.0 will have Bitcoin support. Kim Dotcom’s famed MegaUpload file sharing service is set to make a comeback in a new avatar soon. This time, the new MegaUpload 2.0 will embrace the digital currency revolution by including Bitcoin payment option. Kim Dotcom, the tech entrepreneur and the founder of ‘Internet Party‘- a political party in New Zealand – has hinted the possibility of Bitcoin payments integration in his upcoming file sharing application earlier this weekend. The announcement was made on his....