GNU Media Peer

"Here is the initial public GNU Media Peer profile specification:

Media Peer is a P2P personal information publishing and sharing tool which:

• is copyleft free software (released with GPL)

• is an open infrastructure plugin-based for information production and sharing

• is multiplatform, based on native GUI on Windows (Win32), Linux (X11/GTK, X11/QT) and Mac OS X (Cocoa)

With Media Peer you will be able to share data, audio/video, textual documentation, or any other kind of digital artifacts by using P2P technology and supporting P2P networks in a secure and controlled way.

Media Peer will allow the setup of trust relationships between sharing and working groups; it will also allow to evaluate, to redistribute, and to modify and enhance downloaded material, which will be re-editable, compilable, remixable and re-publishable (always in the respect of the specific content relative distribution licenses).

Media Peer architecture is based on the integration of configurable plug-ins to facilitate the publication of greater number of resource types, and it also integrates advanced research and cataloguing tools to archive all downloaded materials.

Media Peer supports interactive live text chat/instant messaging, and audio/video communication channels.

The Media Peer software framework will allow users to decide on which P2P networks to publish their files, and whether to store files locally on their computers or in a distributed-fashion across the network itself or on Media Peer servers.

Depending on the P2P network selected as a destination for publishing, a matching input form will allow the user to provide reference information for any rich media content to be published including title, contents, duration, description and allowed re-uses." (http://www.masternewmedia.org/p2p/video_publishing/p2p_video_publishing_platform_for_political_discourse_20050719.htm)