CloudFire - Stealth P2P service, reveals itself to us...and maybe you!

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CloudFire - Stealth P2P service, reveals itself to us...and maybe you!

by Drew Olanoff Jun 3rd 2008

A while back we wrote about a new super sekret stealth P2P file sharing for the masses service called CloudFire.

Just to refresh your memories, CloudFire aims to let you share photos, movies, music, from your desktop right to the web. And not just to the web, but in a very lovely and seamless way based on the screens we've seen. They really want to make P2P mainstream. This is quite a hurdle to jump.

Their "manifesto" states that media shouldn't be a chore. It should be easy to create and share everything that you make to show other people. They want to make the act of uploading media files to outside servers extinct.

Rock on!

But when will we get to see it and play around for ourselves?

Now's the time. We were able to sleuth some invites to their private beta. Ok, they emailed them to us.

Just for you guys, the DLS faithful.

"But what do we have to do to get such an invite" you ask?

Well it's quite simple. Be one of the first 5 people to correctly answer the following question and you get the invite.

Who wrote a parody of a manifesto in 2001 that also has their hand in P2P?

UPDATE: Wow, that was fast. All 5 invites gone. Correct answer? Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent! We'll let you know if we get some more invites.

Tags: cloudfire, invites, p2p

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

BouncinDave said 9:37AM on 6-03-2008

Bram Cohen?

Mouse said 9:38AM on 6-03-2008

Bram Cohen

callum said 9:38AM on 6-03-2008

Bram Cohen

callum said 10:13AM on 6-03-2008

Anyone in the "CloudFire 5" get their invite yet? Not that I'm impatient but it's been at least 10 minutes..

Drew Olanoff said 10:24AM on 6-03-2008

Sorry, you weren't in the 5 :(

There were 2 comments first that we hid to not give away the answer. Hopefully we'll get more!!!

callum said 10:30AM on 6-03-2008

I was number #3 both visually when my answer was accepted and according to the timestamp.

Drew Olanoff said 11:19AM on 6-03-2008

Hopefully we'll get more invites and you'll be first on the list!

Jon Lem said 9:39AM on 6-03-2008

Would that be Bram Cohen, the creator or BitTorrent?

will said 9:54AM on 6-03-2008

Bram Cohen

DEAN WHITTAKER said 9:40AM on 6-03-2008

Bram Cohen

Sean Grimes said 9:42AM on 6-03-2008

and another rousing plug for Bram Cohen.

kingkool68 said 9:58AM on 6-03-2008

I like turtles!

Drew Olanoff said 10:12AM on 6-03-2008

So do I!!!! And facepainting.

Drew Olanoff said 10:11AM on 6-03-2008

dang you guys and gals rock. it was indeed bram. hopefully we'll get more invites to share :)

BouncinDave said 12:48PM on 6-03-2008

The mac client doesnt mount properly :(

jfjb said 9:58PM on 6-03-2008

let me guess, Bram Cohen?

Josh said 1:15AM on 6-05-2008

Hmm.. i've got an invite and i can't even remember signing up for it..

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