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And the RIAA lands another awesome strike of the sword into the ocean. The more they fight piracy in this way, the further they push file trading into complete
by swombat 16y ago
And the RIAA lands another awesome strike of the sword into the ocean.
The more they fight piracy in this way, the further they push file trading into completely untrackable recesses of the internet.
It's actually a good thing in the long run, I suppose. Between this and the Homeland DNS grab, soon we'll have an alternative internet where everything is encrypted, routed through ZKS systems, untrackable, and completely outside of government control.
- zzzeek 16y agoas long as its limited to the edges of the technical community and not 80% of high school kids, they're more or less "fine" with that
- tomjen3 16y ago'Cept it won't be for long - as soon as a program is written that works like freenet but allows you to download songs like napster did, any teen-age kid will get their hands on it, and it will replace napster as the worlds most used program.
- elai 16y agoFreenet has serious speed issues to resolve before anything like it would be viable.
- swombat 16y agoI'm sure an influx of a few million well-connected nodes on college campuses (running on standard ports of other services and disguised to look like valid packets of those services) would help sort out the speed issues.
- tomjen3 16y agoThats why I said operate like freenet - in giving its users total anonymity and complete deniabilty - not freenet.
- radu_floricica 16y agoIt's easy to build alternatives to file sharing. You can be as inventive as you want. DNS on the other hand is a standard. No matter how many alternatives you cook up to it, you have to replace to many things in too many places for them to work. Either that, or simply install something at the client's place that bypasses the whole system. Works, but somehow I doubt DNS is so easy to replicate.