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Next-gen Copyright-aware P2P System Whitepaper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the p2p-stands-for-pay-to-play dept.

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?"

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  1. Wonder how long that will last. by ScytheBlade1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because here's a hint: make the protocol open, and people will re-write it to exclude the copyrights.

    Oh, it's server-based and not 'true' P2P...my mistake.

    No one will use it :P

  2. Re:Kinda sad... by rking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You basically admitted that nobody will use it because copyrights are enforced.

    Unless they can come up with a better selling point than "with added restrictions" then of course nobody will use it.

    People who don't want to infringe copyrights are entirely capable of not infringing copyrights. They don't need a system that prevents them doing it.

    People who do want to infringe copyrights also obviously don't want a system that prevents them doing it.

    Unless there's actually something they do BETTER than the competition then they aren't going to appeal to anyone.