Stanford Researchers Trying to Protect P2P Networks

dirvish writes "New Scientist has a story about efforts from researchers at Stanford to protect peer to peer networks from attacks that could be permitted by the proposed Berman Bill. Neil Daswani and Hector Garcia-Molina of the Database Research Department at Stanford University have mathematically modeled the Gnutella network to discriminate between nodes and supernodes. They then tested the nodes to find which rules could be applied to best avoid a malicious node on the network thus conserving bandwidth."

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Don't you mean

[Rogerborg]

GNU/EFF?

LAW and P2P

[locarecords.com]

Thats not the point. The danger is they'll resort to LAWS that hand out outrageous sentences to stop you even thinking about it.

How about five years in prison for propsing/implementing a copying/p2p technology? Or the threat of a huge $100000 fine?

Strangely mostly people will be put right off. And peer-to-peer requires a peer to peer to...

The man with the lone telephone has no-one to call...

and once again...

[RebelTycoon]

Nothing will stand inbetween a geek and his porn.

Nothing like earning a Masters/Ph.D that has practical business application.

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