Digital Restrictions Management for P2P Systems

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."

Comments

Information is not property.

[HanzoSan]

Theres no law saying intellectual property is a right.

The constitution says free speech is a right.

What should we follow?

So basically its saying, if you listen to the music without buying the CD you are "stealing" the music.

Stealing it from who? The music has no owners, its just a sound wave. 1s and 0s have no owners.

So unless you believe ideas have owners this cant work.

I do agree a person should have exclusive rights to profit off of an idea they discover first, however, people who download mp3s just to listen to it, arent selling it, so its not taking anythinng away from the creator.