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Newsbooster Creates P2P Newsbrowser

Posted by timothy on from the boost-means-lift-means-steal-means-sneak dept.

scubacuda writes "Newsbooster, the Danish company that got busted for deep-linking to newspaper stories, has created a new P2P version of its service to get around European law. Newsbooster's "Newsbrowser" software works like Kazaa - users download the software and it networks their computers together, instead of serving up files from a single server."

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  1. Now if only slashdot would follow their lead by mikecheng · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It would be great if this sort of distributed system could be used to prevent the slashdot effect.


    I suppose what is needed is some sort of cross between


    Or maybe just bloody mirror the links...
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  2. Some comments by Subjective · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wait a minute, they're deep-linking, against European law, in cyberspace, where we can't claim they're under our legislation, since they're not in out country?
    Bomb them!

    Seriously though:
    Could people 'fake' news through this net?
    I mean, what format are they using? Someone could (theorically, for now) break the format, and post any news he wants (or rather, links to what he wants) that seem like Newsbooster's content

    This whole story is interesting: It seems that any law on Internet content can be solved with a decentralized network.
    This could also make internet traffic very interesting - everyone will always be connected to several networks - one for music/video/files, one for news, one for subversive terrorist activity.
    Im sorry, did I write that out loud? ;)

    <bad UF reference>Then we could run a TCP/IP network on top of that...</bad>

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