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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by grondilu on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:52PM (#16360372)
> What's more interesting to me is using BitTorrent not for pirated movies but as a content distribution system enabling more free services like Wikipedia.

That should be much higher in Wikimedia's TODO list, IMHO. There is a browser extension called WikipediaP2P for chrome, but if I'm not mistaken the author is not affiliated with the Wikimedia foundation and it's only for chrome.

I donated money once to the foundation so now I receive emails from times to times, asking for more money. It nags me when I read the claim that they need money to pay for servers and yet they don't seem to make any effort to distribute Wikipedia in a P2P way.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by falcor84 on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:58PM (#16360961)
But do note that hosting is actually only a very small percentage of where money goes.

In 2017, Wikimedia received ~87M in donations while only ~2M were spent on hosting. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/da/Wikim...

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by eximius on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:11PM (#16362195)
What the hell? Why do they need my money if they have 50 Million dollars in cash or cash equivalents? Am I reading that right?

And who the hell are their employees that are getting paid 33 million dollars a year? How many employees are there?

EDIT: Reading a related comment's linked OP-ed, it appears that the Wikimedia Foundation spends a lot of money on non-wikipedia things. That is disturbing to me. I would like to donate to Wikipedia, not Wikimedia. Wikimedia may or may not be worthwile (I'm simply not familiar), but it isn't where I want my money to go.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by twohlix_ on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:31PM (#16362978)
They have ~300 employees. So 33M is not a crazy price to pay. ~110k USD/employee/year. Considering the industry they're in (information and tech) this is totally reasonable.

Otherwise no big deal that it may or may not fit your values to donate to Wikimedia.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by eximius on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:41PM (#16363054)
Not crazy, no, but surprising that they have ~300 employees.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by cerved on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:21AM (#16365136)
Somone I went to college work works there
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by insertnickname on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:53PM (#16360913)
Wikipedia has cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by JeremyBanks on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:58PM (#16360419)
https://datproject.org/ with https://beakerbrowser.com/ or the upcoming Firefox extension is the most currently-promising project in this space.
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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by sengork on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:25PM (#16360654)
A bit similar to Opera Unite circa 2009:

http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-un...

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by craftyguy on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:40PM (#16361357)
> That should be much higher in Wikimedia's TODO list, IMHO

Wikipedia's TODO list has only one item: beg for more funding

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