GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 14, 2003 @04:23AM from the serious-uses-for-p2p dept.

DrMorpheus writes "With the recent demise of the Bush administration's controversial Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) programme to monitor everyone in the US, citizens now have a chance to get their own back. A website to be launched later in 2003 will allow people to post information about the activities of government organisations, officials and the judiciary. The two MIT researchers behind the project face one serious problem: how to protect themselves against legal action should any of the postings prove false. The answer, they say, is to borrow a technique from the underground music-swapping community. Instead of storing the data in one place, they plan to distribute it around the internet in a similar way to the notorious Napster software that got music file-sharing under way."

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Napster was NOT decentralized by Superfreaker · 2003-10-14 04:43 · Score: 1, Redundant

"they plan to distribute it around the internet in a similar way to the notorious Napster software that got music file-sharing under way"

The main problem with Napster and the reason why it failed was because it kept a centralized list of files available, so they could simply shut down those servers.

The newer p2p clients do not have this centralized list, but are truly distributed.

I've heard this comparison a couple of times before and it is just wrong.