TorrentBoy, Free Kids Book on the TorrentSphere
Written by Ernesto on March 26, 2009MCM, a writer and artist from Victoria, Canada, has released the first book of his TorrentBoy series. ‘TorrentBoy: Zombie World!’ deals with a kid named Wesley, who’s on a quest to save the world while battling zombies and giant leeches. The book can be downloaded for free.
On first sight, Wesley – the main character in the book – is not really different from the other kids in school. However, this quickly changes when the sewage treatment plant is in danger. In order to protect mankind Wesley transforms into TorrentBoy, a first class super-hero.
Wesley has a talking ‘tracker watch’ that is able to tap into the power of TorrentSphere when needed, and transform him into TorrentBoy. Together with a laser blaster-carrying, speech-impeded teddy bear named Crash, he defends the world against all evil, including giant leeches.
TorrentBoy Fights Giant Leeches
Although the book isn’t literally about BitTorrent, it is inspired by it says MCM. “The underlying concept of the TorrentSphere is that all people in the world are connected through a massive invisible network, and that the network makes us all smarter and better people.
“It’s BitTorrent philosophy, but very abstracted. Then again, TorrentBoy battles giant leeches. Take from that what you will,” the author adds.
The book is a pleasure to read, and certainly not just for kids. It has a Creative Commons license, which means that people are free to add, edit, remix and share the book for non-commercial use. In fact, the author encourages readers to do so with the TorrentBoy project that was launched in addition to the book.
With the project MCM hopes to get a swarm of people involved in the TorrentBoy series. The best ideas will get licensed, and those who help out will of course get their share of the revenue generated. All is explained in the video at the bottom of this article.
‘TorrentBoy: Zombie World!’ can be downloaded for free, but a paperback and e-book (.epub) version are also sold on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other book stores. TorrentBoy has to be on BitTorrent of course, so we’ve uploaded a torrent to Mininova as well.
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It’s nice to see something like this pop up once in a while. I can’t wait till I read.
If I enjoy it I will actually go out and purchase a copy at Barnes and Nobles.
cool! Where my son has to do reading of books every nite for school , this will be perfect for him nites when he “forgets” to bring any home
Nice little story
second!
I’m a retard :D
“Together with a laser blaster-carrying, speech-impeded teddy bear named Crash, he defends the world against all evil, including giant leeches.”
But the greatest evil of all, of course, are not the leeches, but rather the people from the MAFIAA who wants to shut it all down.
cool idea!
I bought a puzzle the other day and completed it in 2 hours! On the box it said “upto 3 years”. How good am I!
It’s nice to see something like this pop up once in a while. I can’t wait till I read.
If I enjoy it I will actually go out and purchase a copy at Barnes and Nobles.
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I simply love this..!
I wish more people in the world had great ideas like this one..!
@ 2
Indeed
Reminds me a lot of Jenny Everywhere. I wish more people were open to the idea of other people expanding upon their work so freely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Everywhere
lmao.
duh.
no offense, but as a heavy BitTorrent user, this seems kinda lame… regardless, I’m gonna download it and check it out.
“Reminds me a lot of Jenny Everywhere. I wish more people were open to the idea of other people expanding upon their work so freely.”
Will you wait until all the greedy corporations are open, and humbly submit to the horrid MAFIAA people who say “no” to it?
We ought to disapprove of any attempt to prevent derivative works. We ought to practice civil disobedience by creating derivative works even when the rights holder disapprove of them. The “rights” holder ought to have no such right – and are you just going to submit to them and be their underling by paying them all of your obedience? We ought to practice civil disobedience by creating derivative works.
If you’re with me, write, “Aye!”
Pirates of the world, unite!
“If you’re with me write ‘Aye!’”
AYE!
Is it just me, or is there something really fundamentally sad that fanfiction has become a subversive act? I read a lot of Fanfic (at least for stuff that interests me) and have watched my share of Star Trek Fanfilms, and I just find it really sad that such activities aren’t the norm.
I love this guy’s mentality about the project, but in a truly sane world models like this wouldn’t even have to be explicitly stated — they’d be seen as “just how stuff gets done.”
Good example of how the corporate media are even starting to clue in: Star Trek Nemesis (if I remember correctly) originally derived from a fan-script. James Cawley (the guy who masterminded the “Star trek new voyages” fan-production) has a part in the latest Star Trek film. So at least, implicitly, Big Media “gets” it.
Unfortunately, they also “don’t” get it (as demonstrated by all the lawsuits and such.)
There is nothing more fun then a teddy bear with a laser blaster!
ROFL
Why is there logo a sphincter?
LMAO @Dave
@14
star trek nemesis sucked!
Lmao. Hope this doesn’t confuse the new generation of bittorrent users.
Good book thanks!
Showing Bittorrent in such a positive light
[a superhero powered by the awesome power of torrents :-P ] is great tool in “educating” people about how bittorrent works.
“It’s Torrent Time!” should be TorrentBoy’s tag line.
Go TorrentBoy Go!!
FTA: “The book is a pleasure to read, and certainly not just for kids.”
Whatever… seems extremely childish to me and aimed at kids.
@21: “[a superhero powered by the awesome power of torrents :-P ] is great tool in “educating” people about how bittorrent works.”
Your a freaking moron dude, nobody will have a clue how BT works after reading this crud.
@16: You weren’t supposed to notice that.
@19: “TorrentBoy and the NAT Error of Doom!”
@21: “It’s Torrent Time!” will be on a shirt by day’s end, I can almost guarantee :)
meh…
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