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Digital Restrictions Management for P2P Systems

Posted by michael on from the just-because-you-can-do-it-doesn't-mean-you-should dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Digital restrictions management for an open-source peer-to-peer network. Researchers at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center have created a content protection system that is a plug-in for LimeWire/Gnutella. The paper argues that DRM is beneficial to everyone including independent musicians and end-users."

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  1. Re:Insightful??? by HanzoSan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you take a DVD, rip it, encode it with DivX, then place it on a public FTP server, you've infringed on that copyright, obviously, and you've commited theft of copyright.

    *ROTFLMAO* What the hell is theft of copyright?! I'm going to be laughing at this for a long long time, in fact i should make it my sig just to make that guy who posted that msg see how stupid he actually is.

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  2. Re:I wonder . . . by nagora · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Copyright infringement is not theft, as it deprives no one of property.

    It deprives them of payment for work done; the question of whether it deprives them of something physical as well is not relevant; it's still theft.

    TWW

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