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Skypecasting - P2P File Sharing

Posted by Zonk on from the hello-can-you-hear-my-warez? dept.

shashark writes "Technologically savvy users are merging these technologies to "Skypecast", using Skype's service to distribute recordings across the internet for free. This allows expert users to run their own mini-radio stations, which can be accessed by any Skype user. Skype does not actively support these uses, but encourages its users to find new applications for their service. Other possibilities discussed by Skypecasters at Unbound Spiral or Moodle are to turn an MP3 player into a radio station for any of Skype's 29 million registered users to dial up using their Skype line. Instructions also are available on how to record a personal soap opera and use Skype to distribute it en masse. Even more ominously, some Skypecasters record Skype calls and post them on the Internet."

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  1. RIAA and the options left -- by shashark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Skype calls are encrypted end-end. Even if RIAA gets the wiretapping rights to see if VoIP calls are really U2 songs, it'll be hard for them to snoop in. And skype is just a beginning.
    With ever increasing options of sharing digital media, RIAA really has only two options left-
    * Get the govt to ban *any* kind of peer-peer activity. Might be a possibilty, esp given those money bags involved. Don't underestimate your govt. yet.
    * Embrace the change. Move out of media-brokerage business and let the artists provide their creations on whatever media they choose. Change Happens.
    --
    All your music are belong to us.