Pablo Soto, the developer behind Blubster and Piolet, rolls out a virtual, anonymous file-sharing platform whereby users donate a small percentage of their hard drive to create an enormous virtual network, or an "O-drive."
MP2P Technologies announced today the launch of Omemo, an altogether new type of P2P network. It creates a virtual hard drive in which users may save files, however, said files are stored in cyberspace rather than on the user’s local hard drive. Omemo’s distributed storage network is fast and scalable creating a nearly limitless supply of storage space and freely available, uncensored data that can include digital music, video clips, images, software, and documents.
Unlike Google’s anticipated but not yet delivered storage offering, Omemo empowers its users to share resources by creating an open source based P2P network that brings together available free space from hard drives willingly shared by users. It allows users to add, share, and organize their own content – anonymously – thereby forming an exhaustive, live multimedia library managed exclusively by the Omemo community.
“Omemo is essentially a multimedia version of the wildly popular Wikipedia but built upon our P2P network,” said Pablo Soto, CEO of MP2P Technologies, and a 28yo developer who was also behind Blubster and Piolet. “Our development team has worked diligently to create something new to advance P2P file-sharing and bridge it to the ‘wikiocracy’ born out of the social media revolution. Welcome to the O-Drive.”
To further ensure privacy and the principles of online democracy, Omemo is both anonymous and controlled by the community and no single, centralized authority. Every aspect is 100% community policed; from the promotion of superior content through community voting, to the organization of files, and the flagging of inappropriate content, for example.
"There is no way to know who uploads a file, nor who downloads it," a spokesperson says.
“Omemo shares resources, not files. In fact, the Omemo network is so vast that it is capable of hosting countless copies of the entire Wikipedia website or could host the Radiohead digital storefront without any of the bandwidth issues they experienced with their ambitious IN RAINBOWS release,” added Pablo Soto.
Users never share actual hard drives but simply a very small percentage of their available free space. Other successful examples of this include the celebrated SETI project or World Community Grid.
The concept behind it is pretty interesting for it could offer people a file-sharing alternative that carries little risk of sharing files unintentionally or being noticed by the prying eyes of the RIAA, MPAA, and others. Unfortunately, these two benefits are also its drawbacks for it requires users to painstakingly upload individual files to this virtual "O-Drive."
This means that you might as well forget about finding certain content like DVD-Rs for instance, or even high quality 1.5GB XVID video files on the network. With a 68kB/s connection it took about 4 minutes to upload a friend of mines song "D.U.I." from his band The Wagon.
Here’s a few screenshots of me uploading the track.
Moreover, it’s still in Beta and the content available for download is limited, but I could see it being very popular in the future. With the price of a terabyte HDD as low as $328 bucks these days, and $500GB for around a hundred bucks, it seems possible that people could contribute a sizable amount of storage space towards the size of Omemo. But again, having to upload content and therefore being constrained by what are usually poor upload connection speeds amongst most users could make it tough to find content you’re looking for.
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It sounds interesting I’ll have a go-look now. I love the idea behind Wikipedia.
I don’t know. It needs to be vetted before I buy into claims of anonymity. Blubster came with a spyware surprise in the form of an IE toolbar.
@Prh99
I dint get any spyware after installation……and whya re u using IE BTW?
I do like the concept. I’ll give this a go. Well done Pablo I remember chatting to you when you kicked of Blubster.
It’s great there are still innovators like this out there.
Check out Owner Free Filesystem (OFF) on wikipedia and notice how similar it is!
@soulxtc
I was talking about Blubster when I mentioned spyware. I don’t use IE I use Firefox but the copy of Blubster I had at the time installed a toolbar for IE.
and that is why there is clean blubster..
http://www.epirate.net/ep4/?q=warez/201
and that is why there is clean blubster..
http://www.epirate.net/ep4/?q=warez/201
and that is why there is clean blubster..
http://www.epirate.net/ep4/?q=warez/201
Should work on similar lines to uploading on Usenet so I don’t see why it shouldn’t catch on. That said until enough people get scared of using BitTorrent or Limewire it will be a slow take-up I fear.