The Infoanarchist's Handbook

Searching for music, applications, and other files of interest — Using Instant Messaging, Using File Sharing Networks, Using the Web, How to Search, Using Usenet, Using IRC

Staying anonymous — Anonymous Web Surfing, Anonymous Usenet Posting, Anonymous E-Mail

Protecting your privacy — Encrypting your: e-mail, Chat, Encrypting Your File Sharing, Files, Network Links, Getting rid of spyware, Getting rid of pop-ups, Obscurity

Peer-to-Peer Journalism and collaborative writing

Collaboration terms — Collaborative filtering, Collaborative writing, Content management system, Moderation, Peer-To-Peer Journalism, Scorefile, Weblog, Wiki Wiki Web

Content management and collaborative journalism systems — Active2, Drupal, Scoop, Slashcode, PHPNuke, PostNuke, WikiWiki Software, Xoops, Typo3

Collaborative writing websites — Drop.Org, Indymedia, infoAnarchy, Kuro5hin, Wikipedia, Recyclopedia, Consumerium, Disinfopedia, Metaweb, Empathy Collective

Bot Blogging — Chump, Daily Churn, #infoanarchy

Peer-to-Peer Protocols, Applications, and file sharing

Major File Sharing Applications — Blubster, eDonkey2000 (and related), DirectConnect and Gnucleus, Ares, Tesla, Winny, BitTorrent and various clients like Exeem and Azureus

Open or Reverse-Engineered File-Sharing Protocols — Alpine, The Circle, Freenet, giFT, GNUnet, Gnutella, Mnet, Napster / OpenNap, WASTE, MUTE, ENTROPY, ANts

Major Classes Of Peer-To-Peer Applications — Distributed file sharing, Distributed file storage, Distributed computing, Distributed hash table

Development — GnucDNA, The Gnutella Developer Forum

Websites & News — infoAnarchy, P2P Net, Musicdonkey.Net, Filedonkey.Com, Slashdot, Slyck.com, Zeropaid.com, P2pnet.net, Streamerp2p.Com, Jump Right In, Hugecaster, MP3Board.com, IndyPeer, V2V, CacheLogic, PeerTech, Peeracy, PeerCast.Org, Afterdawn, MP3 Newswire, OpenP2P, Infoshop, p2p-links

Internet Radio: Enemy Combatant Radio, Off The Hook

Peer-to-Peer-Related Problem Areas

Terms — File sharing, Data haven, Hash-Link, Rating, Reputation, Trust, Troubleshooting, Performance, Measure, Identification, Closed Source, Documentation

Software Problems — Adware, Spyware, Scumware, Vaporware, Bugs, Bottleneck, Footprint, Legacy, User Interface, Trojan Horse, Backdoor, Virus, Worm, Exploit

Metadata — Bitzi, MusicBrainz, TorrentSpy

Integration, Standards, Frameworks, Languages — Kademlia, Tristero, BEEP, REBOL, .NET, Mono, Semantic Web, WxWindows, Hailstorm, GNUe

Payment Systems — OpenDBS, Paypal, E-Gold, GoldMoney, Affero, Worldpay

Complementary Currency Systems (similar but different to Barter) — Time Dollars, Hash Cash

Work Systems — Working Openly, Gift Economy, Mutual Aid, Collective, Cooperative

Data — Gift Economy Data, Peer-To-Peer Growth Data

Common File formats, Platforms, Toolkits And Libraries, Architectures, Processors, Filesystems, Models

Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, and Cyber-Liberties

Terms — Copyleft, Copyright, Patent, Public Domain, Trademark, Intellectual Property, Free speech, Free, Digital Rights Management, Fair Use, Prior Art

Organizations — ACLU, BSA, CDT, EFA, EFF, FCC, FSF, IANA, ICANN, IFPI, ISOC, MPAA, RIAA, WIPO, WTO

Laws and Treaties — DMCA, CDA, CBDTPA, World Copyright Treaty, TRIPS, Berne Convention, EUCD

Historic Cases — Supreme Court VCR hearing, Free Kevin, Eldred v. Ashcroft, etc.

Friends And Enemies — Civil liberty, fair use, and freedom of speech advocates versus corporations, John Ashcroft, and a moronic patent law system.

The Halls Of The Dead — Where we mourn the loss of those things which have passed. P2P Clients, Websites, etc.

Information Tools

Conversion Tools - from one file format to another

Operating System(s) — BeOS, BSD, DOS, ELKS, GNU/Hurd, OS/2, GNU/Linux (Linux), Macintosh, Minix, QNX, Solaris, Symbian OS, Windows

Newsreaders — Pan, Agent, Xnews, Mozilla Mail/News, Newsbin, Gnus, Usenet Binaries

Chat Clients — Internet Relay Chat, Instant Messenger, Persistent Online Worlds, Tele/Videoconferencing, social networking

E-mail clients and Groupware — Evolution, Eudora, KMail, Mahogany, Mutt, Pegasus, Pine, Sylpheed, Chandler, Mozilla Mail/News, Foxmail, Gnus

Editors — cream, Emacs, jEdit, NoteTab (Windows), nedit, Treepad, vi/vim

Office — OpenOffice, Word Perfect, Microsoft Office

Web browsers — Arachne, Dillo, Internet Explorer, Konqueror, Links, Lynx, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari, Skipstone, w3m, Gecko-Based Browsers: K-Meleon, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, Mozilla, Galeon, Camino.

FTP Clients — FileZilla

Web filters (Ad-Filters, selective site banning, etc): FilterProxy, Internet Junkbuster, Muffin, Privoxy (GPL), The Proxomitron (Windows), WebCleaner, Swiftsurf

Web caches — Squid, SmartCache, Dijjer

Adware/Spyware*Removal — AdAware, Spybot, Spychecker

Firewall/Proxy circumvention — Corkscrew, Cryptcat, Httptunnel, Netcat, PuTTY, stunnel, VTun

Other circumvention — Cracks And Serials

Audio/Video Software — Winamp, XMMS, iTunes, STP, Real Player, Audacity, VLC, Zinf

• Radio: IceCast, Streamerp2p, TimeTrax, StationRipper

• Audio Formats — MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Real Audio, Windows Media Audio (WMA), MP3Pro and MPEG-4 audio (AAC).

• • Lossless: FLAC, Monkey Audio, Shorten
  • The Best Compressed Audio Format

• Video Formats — DivX, MPEG-4 video, Quicktime (MOV), Real Video, Windows Media Video (WMV), Video Compact Disk (VCD), (MPEG-1/2 video), MPEG-21

Other Popular Subjects

As a wiki, contributors are free to go on wild tangents. We have been blessed by a significant number of contributions in a range of interesting fields:

Art, Culture, Economics, Games, Music, Movies, Television

Government — Politics, Ideology, Activism

Mass media, Journalism, Information and Activism Websites

Internet Trends — a list of recent Internet Innovations that are worth keeping an eye on

Religion — Evil, Bad Guys, Oppression and the Holy Grail

Sayings — common internet abbreviations

Science — including Technology, Communications and Knowledge

Vegetarianism — Veganism, Ethics and Environmentalism

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