Using Palladium to Secure P2P Networks

user555 writes "The RIAA and MPAA have seen Palladium as a way to prevent piracy. But this article argues that ironically Palladium may actually make P2P piracy more widespread (PDF). They argue that the security features of Palladium could be used to create P2P networks that are more resistant to attacks from content owners."

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How quickly we forget...so which is it this week?

[djupedal]

24/06/2002 - The Register... Starting with a Newsweek exclusive which wonderfully quotes His Billness as saying: "It's a funny thing, we came at this thinking about music, but then we realized that e-mail and documents were far more interesting domains." Which is cute, because it suggests that Microsoft's original plans to produce a secure PC that will protect the music companies' stuff from us have been spiked in favour of something much more positive and progressive.

This is shameful propaganda.

[Erris]

It's a research paper. For school. It's not journalism, not a "cleverly planted story," it's a bloody academic essay. It is sitting in a student's directory on a Harvard server.

These three students must be some of those new "grassroots" Microsoft has been trying to buy on campuses. Harvard, that's almost as costly as Tulane, so these three must have been expensive to confuse or corrupt.

Anyone who uses the term "piracy" for unauthorized file violation is clueless to begin with. Other midless gems from these three include:

• "Napster was the first system to integrate the end user into the distribution process."
• "industry would like to return to the days when investigation and legal actions were sufficient to counter a reasonably sized set of professional pirates."
• And the critical flaw, "if Microsoft delivers on the promises of its next-generation secure computing base for Windows, then clients can also be assured of secure storage and curtained memory."

The author's research is lacking. They reference 17 works, mostly popular press articles with one or two intersting texts. One reference they omitted is Microsoft's EULAs which require forced upgrading and Microsoft's right to search your files and delete those they considercopyright infringing.

Anyone who considers the control Microsoft now demands of it's user's computers could not think that Microsoft would ever extend "protection" to user content or clients programs. They promise to do it now, despite a lack of tools. Chances are that Microsoft will delete all peer to peer client programs they find.

Shame on Harvard. I've got to give this student paper an A for effort and the fluent ability to state the obvious but an F in research and critical reasoning. The music and film industry blinders these students wear prevent them from exploring the use of P2P for anything but "piracy". The whole idea of "trusted computing" aiding "piracy" is a juvenile conivance of wishful thinking. It lacks all the things Universities are supposed to be full of, honesty and critical thinking.

OH well

[Pros_n_Cons]

It's alittle too late to get modded up but maybe one or two people will see this

a few days ago I found a new p2p it uses SSL, proxys and tunnels though port 80. lots of other ways to trick the RIAA/ISP's from finding out what we'...ahem YOU are sharing.

Unfortuanatly right now it only works on windows so i was hoping for some slashdot press so we could bug them to death with e-mails :D
here is the site: http://www.earthstation5.com/homeweb.html
if anyone has more information on this id like to hear it, all I know is what the developers want me to think since word of mouth hasn't spread yet.