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Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-importantly-should-they dept.

scubacuda writes "DRMwatch reports that technologists acting on behalf of porn publisher Titan Media reported to Congress that P2P networks could (if they wanted to) use "fingerprinting" (aka "hashing") to detect copyrighted works and then filter them with the "spyware" installed on all nodes in the network."

2 of 373 comments (clear)

  1. Re:They'd Better Not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ok, but since nobody installs Slackware anymore your point is purely academic.

  2. Re:A DRM Parable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What's pathetic is that you group 'christian fundamentalists' with terrorists, murderers, and pornographers.

    Sad.