http://digitalbazaar.com Collaborative Digital Content Distribution Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/09/speed-improvements/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/09/speed-improvements/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:03:40 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=277

Networking Speed - We have improved Monarch's already impressive HTTP networking stack by greatly improving the number of simultaneous requests we can process per second. This not only improves the Bitmunk website, but all of the PaySwarm peer-to-peer software. Performance results will be published soon.

Website Responsiveness - A number of changes have been made to reduce page load times. We have focused on Javascript minimization, resource caching and compression.

Read on to find out the details...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/06/09/speed-improvements/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 20:55:39 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=260 Bitmunk Website and the PaySwarm software. It has been three months since our last release. This launch has a number of new features that are pretty exciting:

• Green Computing - We have replaced the standard Apache+PHP+Smarty web server stack with the Monarch Web server stack. This has improved performance by 468% and reduced the number of servers we need by a factor of 4. Reducing our carbon footprint by 4x is not only green, but greatly reduces long-term operating and maintenance costs as well.
• Semantic Web - We have published a new set of over 74 million pieces of machine-readable data in our pages, 11 million of which consist of pricing data via the Good Relations Vocabulary. We are using RDFa to publish the data.
• The Experience - Finding and buying what you want is now faster, with less annoying screens in the way between you and your music. The PaySwarm software now supports Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit versions).

Read on to find out more...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/05/06/bitmunk-3-2-2/feed/ 5 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:22 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=224 collaborative content distribution. Bitmunk is a plug-in for the Firefox web browser. This release adds the ability to sell DRM-free music from your computer, on behalf of artists, via an open, standards-based, peer-to-peer network. We will be working toward standardizing this technology for web browsers over the next several years. This work will establish a world-wide, open mechanism for the distribution of digital content via web browsers that not only benefit artists, but fans as well. In short - when a file is traded using Bitmunk 3.2, the artist is paid and the fan is paid. You can legally resell the music you buy via the network and get paid for the bandwidth you contribute to the sale. This is a bold new approach to music distribution. We certainly think it is inevitable that digital content will eventually be distributed in this way. Here's how it works...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/11/30/bitmunk-3-2-launched/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:02:48 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=220 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/09/28/a-digital-content-commerce-standard/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:41:46 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=171 The Pirate Bay (TPB). Or rather, it was the Pirate Bay until their owners were raided, sued, tried and sentenced earlier this month. The Pirate Bay is the latest link in a long chain of peer-to-peer companies that have met their end at the hands of international copyright law. It is also the target of a post-litigation buy-out attempt by a company who wants to monetize the over 25 million community members of TPB...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/08/30/equitable-culture/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:02:10 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=108 went live earlier today is the culmination of over 26 months of development, hundreds of thousands of lines of code writes and re-writes and the dream of a small group of us that are trying to fundamentally change the way people buy and sell digital goods on the Internet. On the surface, Bitmunk looks much like a web-based digital content store specializing in MP3 music sales. People can come to the site and purchase songs and albums for very competitive prices (cheaper than iTunes and Amazon.com). There is, however, a deeper history and a grander goal for Bitmunk...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/06/29/browser-based-p2p-commerce/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:23:30 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=54 shopping a new music licensing model around to universities in the United States. Like some before it, this one attempts to address the still rampant music piracy occurring via peer-to-peer networks by enforcing a pseudo-mandatory collective licensing agreement on every student attending a participating university. There were a number of very interesting parts to the proposal that we would like to work on improving with Choruss and any partner universities. There were also a few propositions that we think are harmful to the industry, artists and fans as a whole. It should be no surprise that we think that any sort of mandatory collective licensing is a very bad idea, as is the "covenant not to sue" approach that Choruss is currently pursuing. Voluntary collective licensing, as proposed by organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is not a good alternative either...]]> http://digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:48 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:18:18 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/10/29/one-million-songs-on-bitmunk/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/09/09/bitmunk-music-recommendation/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/09/09/bitmunk-music-recommendation/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:13:04 +0000 Tia Fix http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/09/09/bitmunk-music-recommendation/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/09/09/bitmunk-music-recommendation/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/04/24/bitmunk-microformats-semantic-web/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/04/24/bitmunk-microformats-semantic-web/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:23:45 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/04/24/bitmunk-microformats-semantic-web/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/04/24/bitmunk-microformats-semantic-web/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/12/bitmunk-800k-songs/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/12/bitmunk-800k-songs/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:39:23 +0000 Mike Johnson http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/12/bitmunk-800k-songs/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/02/12/bitmunk-800k-songs/feed/ 1 http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/bitmunk-goes-open-source/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/bitmunk-goes-open-source/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:10:24 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/the-first-open-source-p2p-digital-content-transaction-platform-in-history/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2007/01/15/bitmunk-goes-open-source/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/12/01/collaborative-content-distribution/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/12/01/collaborative-content-distribution/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:11:29 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2006/12/01/changing-the-world-through-collaborative-content-distribution/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/12/01/collaborative-content-distribution/feed/ 3 http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/11/30/newsvine-article-on-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/11/30/newsvine-article-on-bitmunk/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:44:57 +0000 Dave Longley http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=18 http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/11/30/newsvine-article-on-bitmunk/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/11/28/bitmunk-20-launches/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/11/28/bitmunk-20-launches/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:08:30 +0000 Mike Johnson http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=20 http://digitalbazaar.com/2006/11/28/bitmunk-20-launches/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/28/your-very-own-online-music-store/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/28/your-very-own-online-music-store/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:32:58 +0000 Dave Longley http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=17 http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/28/your-very-own-online-music-store/feed/ 2 http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/15/billboard-magazine-blogs-about-bitmunk/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/15/billboard-magazine-blogs-about-bitmunk/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:32:17 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=15 http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/15/billboard-magazine-blogs-about-bitmunk/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/14/music-distribution-agreement-with-cd-baby/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/14/music-distribution-agreement-with-cd-baby/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:20:43 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=12 http://digitalbazaar.com/2005/03/14/music-distribution-agreement-with-cd-baby/feed/ 0 http://digitalbazaar.com/2004/08/07/article-on-bitmunk-at-online-reporter/ http://digitalbazaar.com/2004/08/07/article-on-bitmunk-at-online-reporter/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:25:10 +0000 Manu Sporny http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/?p=5 http://digitalbazaar.com/2004/08/07/article-on-bitmunk-at-online-reporter/feed/ 0