Found an interesting and worrying little article on Wired at
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,40816,00.html
regarding services offered by Copyright Agent (http://www.copyright.net/)
and Emusic (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40316,00.html),
which will supposedly automate the process of locating copyrighted files
and sending DMCA cease-and-desist emails to users' ISPs. They'll
apparently be maintaining a list of known "illegal" files identified by
MD5 checksum, and then trolling around with search engines to find
individual users who are offering them publically.
The interesting thing about the article is that the entire second half is
devoted to a discussion of how they intend to extend this to Freenet
specifically. They seem to understand how Freenet works to some degree.
"While Mediaenforcer President Travis Hill said the system can't track
everyone on Freenet, he claims it can track the last person to come in
contact with the information, which might be enough to slow down the
growth of the file-trading system."
Looks like it'd be a good idea to implement node-to-node encryption sooner
rather than later, otherwise as "illegal" files start getting passed
around through Freenet random node owners' ISPs will be sent
cease-and-desist letters because of other peoples' requests.
In a way this is good news, it shows that Freenet is good enough to spawn
an entire industry devoted to trying to stop it. :)
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Bryan Derksen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes
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