Guest guest Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 http://p2p-politics.org/ About p2p-Politics FAQ What's the purpose of this site? There is an extraordinary range of political speech that has been created for this election, some of it professionally made, most of it not. We are volunteers who think that it should be easier for people to show other people the content they think they should see before they vote. We built this peer-to-peer site to enable people to send personalized messages with links to video clips about this election. Can't people already do this by going to the various campaign sites? Yes, they can, but we wanted to collect a wider range of content, both professional and not, and build a single site to collect it. We invite anyone -- campaigns or individuals -- to submit content they would like to see included on this site. Our only requirement is that you: 1. have the copyright to enable that donation to the Internet Archive and 2. that you license the content under a non-exclusive, Creative Commons license for others to access or download for non-commercial purposes. If you would like to donate content, submit an ad. Does this have anything to do with p2p filesharing? It is peer-to-peer, or people-to-people, but the files are not themselves shared. Only links to files are shared. Where is the content hosted? The Internet Archive hosts the content under a Creative Commons license. The links on our site and in our emails point to the Internet Archive. Is Creative Commons sponsoring the site? No. The site uses Creative Commons licenses to make it easy to collect and share the content, consistent with copyright. But Creative Commons is not sponsoring or supporting the site. Who built the site? A group of volunteers who thought it was worthwhile -- see the credits below. Why do you have a lot of pro-Kerry/anti-Bush content? We intend this site to be non-partisan, though we acknowledge that the content that we were able to collect initially has a decided bias. MoveOn.org generously contributed many of the ads volunteers submitted to their Bush in 30 Seconds contest. The Kerry campaign also provided us with clips from their website. We have asked the Nader and Bush campaigns to do the same. We're very hopeful to get content from all the major campaigns and we encourage them and their supporters to let us help others share their message. Do the ads have to be sponsored by the campaign? No. Any relevant, decent, and authorized content is allowed. We have a curating process to assure abusive content is not added. But we are eager to encourage a wide range of messages. Please Note: The candidates and the political parties they represent do not necessarily approve the content distributed by any third party listed on this website. For content the candidates officially endorse, please visit their respective websites. Do you have an RSS feed? Yes, we do. And it includes enclosures. Privacy Policy This site collects no user information at all. We do not collect or retain email addresses. We do not use cookie technologies to track users. Our server, like any, gathers IP addresses. We will only use that data to track abuse. Finally, we will gather statistics to calculate total usage of the site, and to count the frequency of downloads. Credits This site was designed by J Christopher Garcia and Aaron Swartz, with some ideas by Lawrence Lessig. If you have questions, please contact Elaine Adolfo. None of this would be possible without the generous support the Internet Archive gives to free resources on the Internet. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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