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Protecting Clients: Legal Impact of Filesharing Network Design

Posted by michael on from the when-lawyers-attack dept.

Cryogenes writes "InfoAnarchy has posted an excellent piece on legal issues faced by participants in a P2P network. The article is written by Fred von Lohmann who was previously noted on /. for the white paper IAAL*: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster (which you can find on the EFF site here)."

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  1. Re:Freenet by jchristopher · · Score: 5, Insightful
    An encrypted, anonymous network can completely ignore legal implications, because there is nobody directly responsible for it, or even for any single transfer.

    No, you cannot ignore the legal implications, because:

    1. It will eventually made illegal to even run the P2P client;

    2. ISPs (already have) will start cutting you off for even running Napster, AudioGalaxy, Freenet, etc, bowing to pressure from megacorps.

    What good is an encrypted P2P client if you've got no internet connection?

  2. Amen! by SCHecklerX · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The internet should be illegal. It's one big "p2p" network, after all.

    FTP, HTTP, Telnet, Usenet, Gopher, POP, SMTP...and of course, IRC!

    Ban it all! One computer connects to another computer and gets stuff from it. That's how it all works and always has, dimwits!