Torrent Raiders: BitTorrent The Game
Written by Ernesto on July 08, 2006Always wanted to kill some leechers? With Torrent Raiders you can.
“Torrent Raiders players use their Torrent Raider ship, equipped with an array of dazzling projectile weaponry, to search and destroy virtual violators in the torrent swarm”
Ownage.
Torrent Raiders is an arcade-style video game and a dynamic network visualization. Driven in real-time by the activity of bit torrent swarms, Torrent Raiders takes place on the ad-hoc networks created by bit torrent users. Torrent Raiders playfully addresses issues of domestic surveillance, amidst the recent revelation of the Bush administration’s illegal wiretapping and the increasingly Orwellian nature of our so-called “homeland security”. Players take on the role of a government agent tasked with surveilling the ad-hoc networks generated by torrents linked to copyrighted material.
A Beta built of the game will be ready January 2007.
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“the Bush administration’s illegal wiretapping and the increasingly Orwellian nature of our so-called “homeland security”.”
Great gobs of gopher shit! We can’t get away from the simple-minded political rhetoric even with a cool idea for a Bittorrent game. Mostly it’s from kids who have a tunnel-vision POV that has no experience in the real world. If you dislike Bush, vote Green or something. But as America is under attack, sneering at “homeland security” is pretty stupid. Unless you are an enemy of the United States…
Catmanzero,what are you talking about??? since when is america “under attack”? well I guess I can’t deny those planes in the towers but unless you’re only watching american TV (NBC counts too)you would have noticed that some years after 9/11, even most of the then self proclaimed patriots begin to see all the holes in the official stories. I won’t indulge here,look for your self.
“Unless you are an enemy of the United States…” ???
please…
hehe Catmanzero ur one of those stupid brainwashed americans we all laugh about in europe.. we get it. why dont u ? its u who have the “tunnel vision” m8 :)
under attack? you are truly pathetic. I would give up the “security” we gained for all the freedoms such “security” removed. If you feel the US is still under attack you have let both the terrorists and the Nazi-like Bush administration win. Get a spine, get a gun (or 2), and grow a spine! and use your brain. But I digress. The game sounds like a great idea and I look forward to the Beta. Hopefully by then torrents are still around and we can all enjoy the humor.
America’s under attack? Again? Twice in five years? Oh, this is the same attack? Those are some pretty slow planes.
‘…The people can always be brought to the will of the leaders. You simply tell them they are under attack…it works every time.’ Although I don’t think it would work without one actual attack, so there was a pretty busy eight months crammed full of ignoring warnings. But all you need is one Reichstag fire, the right PR, and people will still be saying: do anything you want to me, as long as you keep me safe, five years later. Just keep telling them they’re under attack. It works every time.
i do wonder if most of all threats to all (european atleast and american maybe too)and any populace in the past hundreds or a thousand years served some subjugative purposes of some group or something.
We know it isnt the jew since the jew last attacked itself through hitler so what might it be. i do wonder. who´s pawns are the jews?
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