The First Open Source P2P Digital Content Transaction Platform in History

January 15, 2007 on 8:10 am | In Bitmunk, Corporate, Development, Industry, Music, Television, Movies and Video | No Comments

To build and launch the first copyright-respecting P2P Digital Content Transaction Platforms in the world is no small feat. We are here because of the extraordinary efforts of volunteers that donate their time to open source software. Linux, Apache, Python, PHP, MySQL, and Lustre are just a few of the open source technologies that we have utilized to build Bitmunk. Each of us believe in open source and its ability to build great technology and community, so it is with great exuberance that we are donating the lions share of our source code and systems into the open source community.

We believe in the democratization of digital content - empowering individuals and corporations to choose the terms that best suit them. Want to watch free Internet-based TV shows with commercials? Want to buy the show directly from the artist without commercials? What about getting your music legally and at a 15% discount from a friend instead of from a large corporation? Maybe negotiating with a music record label - you’ll buy 5 of their albums if they give you 25% off of each one? All these scenarios are possible with the Bitmunk Transaction Platform. This is what we’re open sourcing - the source code and technology to democratize how we buy and sell content. We call it collaborative content distribution.

Read on to learn more about what this means for the world…

or just go directly to our open source community website.

Bitmunk is going Open Source!

January 4, 2007 on 10:09 am | In Bitmunk, Corporate, Development, Industry | No Comments

In another industry first, we are planning to go open source with several of our software projects. In doing this, we hope to foster a great deal of development in the area of peer-to-peer digital file transactions. Our software helps people run their websites by offering digital content sales as a part of their website experience. The open source software will allow hobbyists, students, universities, and not-for-profits the ability to experiment, evaluate and extend the Bitmunk software.

We plan on providing most everything needed to implement the Bitmunk Download Client and Sales Server aspects of the product. A sandbox website and community website will be available to developers that want to experiment with the software.

We hope to do the release in the next month, stay tuned for updates…