[HacktionLab] SPARKD. An anonymous, decentralised system for dissident media.
sam at bristolwireless.net
sam at bristolwireless.net
Sat Apr 30 20:41:19 UTC 2011
Just a concept at the moment, one to watch..
Summary
SPARKD allows citizen journalists in privacy-critical and
bandwidth-challenged environments to anonymously distribute streaming
video to large audiences. Using P2P protocols such as BitTorrent and
Swift, delivered via the 'flit' Firefox extension & suite of
Javascript tools (to be created in the work described here),
distribution is offloaded onto the audience itself. Indexing is also
decentralised, leading to a robust, hard-to-censor system.
Attention-sourcing tools bring audiences to a video and allow them to
distribute it through the social graph via thematic hashtags, allowing
sequencing via theme and live, social response.
https://www.drumbeat.org/en-US/challenges/unlocking-video/submission/1/
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