OneSwarm
Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications offer no user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor user behavior. As a result, using a P2P network means that your online activities become public knowledge. OneSwarm is a peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth.
| Tags | File Sharing P2P f2f content distribution |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Linux Mac OS X Windows |
| Implementation | GWT Java |
| Translations | German French Swedish Dutch Italian Russian Spanish Portuguese |
Recent releases
- 23 Nov 2009 22:08
Changes: Support for publishing to community servers. A bugfix in the group management UI. SHA1 and ed2k hash search A --configure command line option to configure remote access on Linux servers without X (Xvfb is still needed). Fixes for torrent opening bugs on Snow Leopard. A fix for a bug preventing connections to obfuscated peers for public torrents. A fix for a DHT memory leak for users with many friends. Reduced memory usage for users with large watch directories. A fix for a watch directory bug preventing hashing of some directories on Windows. Support for sharing and searching files with 4-byte characters.
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 51.28
- Vitality Score
- 1.26
- Subscriptions
- 4
- All comments
Recent comments0.6.9 is out. I just found that CPU usage is lower; Apart from that, the main advantage is the growing base of users. YOU should come with us.
This is the best software i've found in this category. It begins to become popular and so the number of available 'resources' should rise. Note that it can be extremely useful for other things that may not come to mind immediatly, like instant messaging, family sharing of photographs, etc. French users should give it a try, and look for the french users forum.
This is a good software. I was very pleasantly surprised with the download speed. I convinced some friends to switch from bittorrent to oneswarm, it simply rocks.
Now it needs a lot more users. And a C implementation on Linux, daemon-like (presently it's possible to work in headless configuration with xfvb, and access the web interface...)
Oh, and by the way, 0.6.5 is out since august, 3rd.