I think it is practically impossible to make the software unavailalble to
new users, right now there are so many off shore websites where you can
download copyrighted software and illegal cracks, it wouldn't be very hard
to distribute a free open source p2p client this way no matter how the
powers that be try to supress it
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Giles" <thomas.giles@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] Radio on Demand
> Eric, you're correct that such a "true" p2p could not be shut down.
> However it could be contained, by making the software unavavible
> to new users. Anybody discovered Hotline?
>
> Found some interesting links and talks regarding p2p, mp3, etc.:
>
> http://www.futureofmusic.org/
> http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/realcast.htm
> http://www.eff.org/radioeff/
>
> haven't had time to read them all. only listened to 'FMC on Online
> Music's Future' on the radioeff page. which was very good and
> informative.
> Tom
>
> On 22 Jun 2002, at 20:20, Eric Kitel wrote:
>
> From: "Eric Kitel" <eric@ayalounge.com>
> To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Date sent: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:20:42 -0400
> Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] Radio on Demand
>
> > actually a "true" P2P is just that, peer to peer, with no central
> > server to catalog available titles and mediate the file transfer, so
> > this means that unlike audiogalaxy a true p2p can never be shut down
> > as long as the client software is available (which in this case also
> > doubles as a server and relay server) I believe that this is how the
> > original Gnutella worked, and it's heirs, like Kaza (correct me if I'm
> > wrong) So eventually everyone will migrate to the true p2p file share
> > systems, and there will be no way for big music to shut them down...
> > unless they start going after the users directly, which hopefully will
> > be too much trouble for them....
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "steph99" <beleza@speakeasy.net>
> > To: "_dakati _" <dakati@postmaster.co.uk>
> > Cc: <AliaK@bigfoot.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 5:03 PM
> > Subject: RE: [acid-jazz] Radio on Demand
> >
> >
> > > > global music library
> > >
> > > Now, there's another fascinating question. As it stands, you can go
> > > to
> > your
> > > local free library and borrow music. what you do with that cd at
> > > home is
> > your
> > > business. Maybe P2P services can just call themselves free
> > > libraries with content online? How do libraries work? do they have
> > > special permission
> > from
> > > each and every publisher to freely distribute books and music, or is
> > > it
> > just a
> > > cultural standard that they can do so? If it's the latter, maybe
> > > that's
> > another
> > > possibility.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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