Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright (fwd)

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Ian Welsh wrote:

> Go to an internet cafe that accepts cash and upload from there.  Walk
> away and never go to that cafe again.  Sad that it's come to that though.

Isn't that how the pirate-to-pirate networks have always worked?
Producers, runners, dealers, consumers...

It's all about being anonymous.

Remember the first rule of P2P: it's only good for things you dont want
anyone to know you have, it's innanely inefficient and pain-in-the-arse for
anything else.

Check out http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10001-102-0-1.html
The top 7 (this week) are all free, pirate tools, and very very popular.
Most of the other top-50 are too actually.

Never fear, the war will be over soon, the side that makes the content will
win shortly. But you may have to think about that ;)

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
  beberg@mithral.com