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P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay

Posted by kdawson on from the move-along-no-database-here dept.

With the US and other G8 countries trying to outlaw The Pirate Bay and its ilk, an anonymous reader suggests that a solution may have emerged out of Cornell University. A new open-source project called Cubit is an Azureus plugin that provides decentralized approximate keyword search of torrents in the network.

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  1. Dude. by Kingrames · · Score: 5, Funny

    They haven't even passed their unconstitutional law. And here you are already defeating it. You're supposed to give them a few minutes of satisfaction.

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  2. Good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And with Guitar Hero replacing actual music, soon there won't be anything left to steal! Now *that's* innovation.

    1. Re:Good! by AmaDaden · · Score: 4, Funny

      30 years from now.... "Dude! Some of my friends and I found like these things in my attic. You can use them to make sounds and stuff. It's like video games but real! We were able to like play a song but it was like not a song from a game or the internet! It was like new!"

  3. Re:Garden Variety by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Really? Your first post ever, and that's what you decided to spend it on?

  4. Obvious quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    "Can't stop the signal."

  5. I heard this song before. by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then the priests of Temples of Syrinx will hound them to suicide.

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  6. Re:Nonsense by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is pure fantasy, and is the kind of thinking that leads to bloodshed. If abuses are not resisted through active, vigorous civil disobedience, then your "eventual correction" IS a bloody revolution.
    Sssh! Don't tell him. I prefer the bloody revolution version.
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  7. Re:Yes. What's unconstituional by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Something higher than government of men gives you rights.

    Who/What would that be?"

    Chuck Norris.

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