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Next-gen Copyright-aware P2P System Whitepaper
meier73 writes "A whitepaper has just been released detailing a secure (OpenSSL/digital signatures), copyright-aware P2P network. The paper claims that this system enables legal file trades, something that isn't guaranteed by Kazaa, Morpheus or eDonkey. The whitepaper goes on to state that the long-term goal of this system is to catalog
every human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium. Project stats: a super-computing cluster that will scale to more than 900TB of storage, 300M transactions per day and trade music, television, movies and books.
Doesn't this constitute a responsible and legitimate use of P2P?"
...and still no Metallica?
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I suspect we like our non-copyright aware distribution channels too much ;)
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
This is great and all, but I think the stat we *really* want to know is... how many Library of Congress' will this thing hold?
but mine is concentrated mostly on pr0n.
... because without corporate supervision you clearly cannot be trusted to abide by the law.
Douglas P. Price
http://www.bitmunk.com/images/tutorial/payment.png <-- That sums if all up right there.
/. geek in the bottom right-corner, left out.
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Guess which P2P no one will be using? ;)
Really? They lost money to piracy? Did the ships carrying copies of DooM3 get boarded and looted? Oh, your just spewing corporate spin, never mind.
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
He just did.
I know of a number of people who won't use P2P as it is now for the very reason that you don't know if you're breaking copyright laws or not.
;-)
Yea, I hate it when I end up downloading something that does NOT break copyright law.