New File Sharing Networks

An anonymous reader sends in: "Most readers of slashdot have been following the exploits of the RIAA and their attempts to shut down Napster, KaZaA, Morpheus, etc. In response, it appears some live music fans have taken things into their own hands and started new file sharing networks made exclusively for trading live recordings of bands that allow that sort of thing. The main player, RNL has reached version 1.0, features a distributed architecture, supports linux, and is even GPLed. Another peice of interesting software is Furthur. Though still only in beta, Furthur has cool features like allowing a user to piggy-back another user's download to reduce the load of the uploader."

Comments

How do they distinguish...

[goldspider]

...live recordings from studio recordings (the kind usually ripped from CD's)? I can't imagine that someone actually listens to all of the music being transferred through the network to determine if it's live or not, and I doubt there's software that can do this either.

These just looks like yet another crop of well-intentioned systems that are openly inviting abuse. Whether that is the true intention of the developers, with an honest-sounding mission to cover their asses, we really can't speculate... yet.

We shall certainly see, though, once the RIAA inevitably turns its attention to these new networks.