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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. Re:Garden Variety by dotancohen · · Score: 0, Troll

    He signed up just for that. Well, that, and to have a conversation with twitter.

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  2. Just Gro3at^H^H^Heat... by hAckz0r · · Score: 0, Troll
    Now I can get sued by the RIAA just for mistyping something that is even remotely close to some movie or rock stars name. I'll be searching for some new open source Matlab image loading and manipulation library and wind up being sued by the MPAA for trying to downloading "The Matrix Reloaded".


    Next they will begin suing people for just "thinking" about typing in a query, that may or may not have been something 'close enough' to a portion of some MPAA's movie title. Fuzzy searches might just beget more fuzzy lawsuits by some slimy lawyer.

  3. Re:Dude. by TRAyres · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..The right to file share is in the constitution? Come on don't bullshit me. Nothing gives us the right to share the work other people own. We do it anyway, because we're starting to believe it is more inline with the freedom and ease of distribution of information.

  4. Re:Getting Rid of the TPB by rimugu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow I knew pop music was bad for you, but never thought it was like cocaine.
    Perhaps you are an expert on both and know.

    I think pop music is legal and I have never seen it produce brain damage, but I have seen several with seizures and they say is dancing.

    Do you think the same will happen with drugs. Will they stop being addictive the moment they are legalized?

  5. Re:Getting Rid of the TPB by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Troll

    Addiction is not the problem with drugs. Millions of americans are addicted to caffeine with few problems. The real problem is that the consequences of addiction are artificially inflated by their legal status. Exhibit 1

    Alan goes to Starbucks and buys a skinny latté if he has time after lunch.

    Exhibit 2

    Having failed to pick up a john at the truck stop for a few hours in the middle of the day, Bob walks downtown and mugs an old lady to get the money to cocaine to inject into his genitals.

    http://cocaine.org/health/dangers.html

    He used to steal from his family but his brother beat the shit out of him and kicked him out.

    Yup caffeine and cocaine addiction are totally the same thing. If caffeine were banned Alan would do what Bob does.
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