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The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Starting P2P-DNS
An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Bay Co-Founder, Peter Sunde, has started a new project which will provide a decentralized p2p based DNS system. This is a direct result of the increasing control which the US government has over ICANN. The project is called P2P-DNS and according to the project's wiki, this is how the project is described: 'P2P-DNS is a community project that will free internet users from imperial control of DNS by ICANN. In order to prevent unjust prosecution or denial of service, P2P-DNS will operate as a distributed and less centralized service hosted by the users of DNS. Temporary substitutes, (as Alpha and Beta developments), are being made ready for deployment. A network with no centralized points of failure, (per the original design of the internet), remains our goal. P2P-DNS is developing rapidly.'"
You cannot beat those who wish to share. You cannot win against the vast numbers. Take one down and 10 sprout to replace the fallen one. The harder you hunt them the more difficult it will be to find them. Stop fighting a battle you cannot win concerning control.
Instead, change your pricing structure, change your delivery methods, stop wasting money on DRM people like me bypass in mere seconds.
This is the future and you are merely in denial. Learn, adapt, and you'll be amazed at the success you will have.
Well, next worse thing. I'm using a Mac right now, with Snow Leopard on it.
Really, I think the OS is awesome (except where they intentionally handicapped it) but Apple is pushing lock in so hard and iTunes is beginning to take over everything, in the next revision even in the main OS is going to have iTunes being the main source of software. Given Apples track record of weining its users by introducing something new but staying compatible with the old way, then removing the old way I'm going back to Linux. You heard that right, I went Windows to Linux to Mac/Linux and heading back to just Linux.
Anyone want to donate to my new computer fund?
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