Ian Clarke wrote on 12/23/00 10:04 pm:
> From Wired News, available
>online at:
>http://www.wired.com/news
>/print/0,1294,40816,00.htm
>l
>
>Oh dear, looks like it is time
>once again to don my
>fireman's hat and quench
>the flames of
>misinformation and
>unquestioned self-publicity
>with the hose of facts and
>common sense.
Thats one great overextended metaphor there, Ian. :)
<>
>In the case of broadband
>connections such as cable,
>even if you can identify that
>a particular IP address is
>running a Freenet node, and
>even if the ISP can be
>persuaded to try to remove
>the user, there is no way for
>the ISP to tie the IP address
>to a given user over a cable
>local loop, and thus no way
>to deny them access.
I beleive the ISP would have a record of who-had-what-IP-when.
<>
>> "Unlike encryption and
>digital rights management
>solutions, you need
>something to go out and
>make sure that any leaks
>out there are stopped
>because those leaks mean
>you are losing revenue," said
>Tim Smith, president of
>Copyright.net, the maker of
>Copyright Agent. "Our
>software all developed
>around the DMCA. We've
>Web-enabled the DMCA."
May you and your stupid law be desroyed in a barrage of a thousand
cluesticks.
<>
>This cannot be achieved with
>Freenet since the process of
>checking to see whether
>content is on a machine will
>actually place the content on
>that machine regardless of
>whether it was there before,
>so it is *this software* which
>will cause the propagation of
>the infringing content - by
>their reasoning, therefore,
>it is their own software which
>should be banned. We call
>this the "I'm Sparticus"
>strategy.
It gets really funny if they run a node, since they
will now possess infringing files :)
Beyond that, I'd like to see it hold up in court. Maybe Brad here
will be as entertaining as Vilenti :)
<>
>Ah yes, change one bit of the
>mp3 file and you get a
>different checksum
>rendering this mechanism
>worthless. That's *really*
>smart.
Hehe, anyone want to start on the PERL script for this *g*
Timm Murray
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