It's open source, anonymous, keeps no records, and acts as an off-line file-sharing system. you can pack it in your lunchbox, or even smaller. You can have it sitting in the bottom of your backpack, and have everyone in the food court up/downloading *ANYTHING* without worrying about getting nailed by "The Man". I don't think that it would be that hard to have it securely wipe it's storage clean at shutdown or startup, so there is no evidence of anything being stored on it, in case of seizure. It's been out for over a year and runs on multiple platforms.
As another poster noted, LibraryBox is a fork of Piratebox (done with the blessing of the Piratebox creator, for what its worth). In fact, the lead developer on both projects is the same person.
The Kickstarter funding allowed us to create an entirely new installation process for LibraryBox, which was then backported to PirateBox after the fact. LibraryBox has also produced an internationalization process for the UI that's going to be ported back to Piratebox in a future release. We've freely shared code back and forth at this point.
Why a fork in the first place? Because I wanted an anonymous sharing device that was more friendly for use in library and educational situations. Anonymous uploading isn't exactly a welcoming idea for sharing in those circumstances.
I like PirateBox better (Score:4, Interesting)
http://piratebox.cc/ [piratebox.cc]
It's open source, anonymous, keeps no records, and acts as an off-line file-sharing system. you can pack it in your lunchbox, or even smaller. You can have it sitting in the bottom of your backpack, and have everyone in the food court up/downloading *ANYTHING* without worrying about getting nailed by "The Man". I don't think that it would be that hard to have it securely wipe it's storage clean at shutdown or startup, so there is no evidence of anything being stored on it, in case of seizure. It's been out for over a year and runs on multiple platforms.
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If you look at the docs for the librarybox, you will notice that it is just a modified piratebox.
Re:I like PirateBox better (Score:5, Informative)
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I just looooove when the people being bashed in the comments come up defending their position! Thanks a lot for all the info griffey!