A cache would take things you have downloaded and share them with others. THis is what all other P2P does. This is good.
You are thinking of the wrong kind of cache. I'm not taking about a browser cache, I am talking about a HTTP cache like Squid. An ISP didn't download everything that is stored by their cache, rather one of their customers did. That does not make the ISP legally liable for what is stored by their cache.
As a Dijjer user you are in exactly the position of an ISP running a HTTP cache, where your customers are the Dijjer user base.
Read the link to the DMCA I reference, I think you will find that the DMCA perfectly describes what Dijjer does.
Just the other day they announced that BitTorrent, the P2P app/protocol that gives far more control to the user than any other P2P app out there, holds 35% of all internet traffic.
Correlation doesn't imply causality.
It already happened when Kazaa first hit the net, before it didn't have the ability to completely shut off sharing.
URL? I have never heard of that. I have spoken to many ISPs and they secretly love P2P, it is the primary driver for broadband adoption. Well designed P2P can actually reduce ISPs costs by minimising off-network traffic.
People generally like to be in full control and not have things going on behind their back.
Yes, that would explain the unpopularity of file-sharing applications...
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will open you up to all sorts of legal problems.
Care to be more specific? It seems to me that Dijjer is pretty-much exactly what the system caching exemption of the DMCA was intended for.
Dijjer does not create any more liability for its users than a HTTP cache creates for an ISP, and note that virtually all ISPs run HTTP caches, so far as I know, without encountering legal problems.
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Any centralized server involved here?
Only for the initial introduction of a peer to the global network (as with all P2P apps) - then its entirely decentralised, just like Freenet.
No need, politics is the same regardless of past history. So they tried it once and failed. They won't try it again, smarter this time?
I'm sure they will try again, and we will be there to stop them, just as we were this time, but in an even stronger position having won the first battle. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
As another guy said, this kind of cynicism is self-fulfilling, but thanks to people who weren't so cynical about politics and actually engaged with it, it is now very likely that the EU will be spared software patents.
And yet, all those good things aside, I bet it still gets passed.
The beauty of being a politician is the public listens to what you say, not what you do.
So yeah, they'll make tons of noise about being against sw patents, and then silently pass it into law.
Its possible, but very unlikely. This is exactly what the swpat advocates tried to do over a year ago, but they failed. Before you express your cynicism you should read up on exactly what has been happening over the past two years with this.
I don't see any reason to take their views as somehow more correct or enlightened than microsoft's or IBM's might be from the other side. each actor is acting in his economic self interest in a pretty blatant way
So what? The difference is that the interests of Linux and MySql happen to coincide with the public interest, all they want is the freedom to innovate without threat of litigation, this is good for almost everyone. Microsoft and IBM want to stifle competition, and that is against the public interest.
I wonder how much mindshare it will really get at the level decisions are made it in business and government.
As it happens, plenty. The anti-swpat movement has had a profound effect on the passage of this directive, the European Parliament, which is one half of the decision process, was essentially persuaded and introduced amendments to prevent software patents. The Council of Ministers, the other half, was initially pro-swpat, but even they are now bowing to geek pressure.
Virtually all involved parties now claim that they are against software patents, even those who are in favour of them!
It is certainly premature to declare victory, but I think the anti-swpat movement currently has the upper hand, and all because of geeks exercising direct democracy.
I have seen a number of articles portray Blake Ross as the creator of Firefox. Is this an accurate portrayal or are journalists just doing it for the image of a 19 yr old going up against Microsoft?
The joy of being outdoors and close to nature. Hunting gets you closer to and more involved with nature than just about any activity other than maybe wildlife research.
Yeah, get close to nature, then kill it!
Seems to defeat the point, doesn't it?
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Does every minor Google or Apple related thing deserve a slashdot story? Can slashdot create a "Fanboy" section for insignificant stories advocating Google (with their software patent) and Apple (with their iTunes DRM)? That way I could filter them out more easily.
Its a simple trick with UDP. Both peers that want to establish a direct connection send UDP packets to each-other. This fools their firewalls into expecting UDP packets to come back as responses, and so each-other's packets can get through the other's NATs - and hey presto, a direct connection between two computers both of which are behind NATs.
Its just surprising that more P2P apps don't take advantage of this.
Java was a fairly nice middle-ground betweeen high and low level programming, and what appears to be an effort to become a high level language is rather ominous for those who are interested in testability and performance in Java.
Generics improve testability because they largely eliminate runtime ClassCastExceptions. I haven't seen any evidence to show that any of these features impose a performance penalty. Most just make the developers life easier by saving them from repeating common code patterns.
This, BTW, is why you don't want your language to be controled by a company which in turn has a marketing-driven bottom-line.
Yeah, because hardly any companies are driven by their bottom lines...
...passes for an "article" on Slashdot now? The argument that Open Source software is better because it doesn't rely on an existing vendor is now "crap" - and requires no more justification than that?
Combine this with the fact that nothing here is new news, and you really gotta as what exactly/. editors are for.
...and that is sad. There is no good reason that free (as in speech) operating systems should not be as good if not better than OSX, but they simply aren't. OSX is great, and Apple has a more open attitude towards their OS than Microsoft, but it is not free (as in beer or speech).
Furthermore, I regret to say that I don't see much prospect of any of the Linux GUI efforts approaching the ease of use and elegance of OS X any time soon - partially due to a lack of imagination, and partially due to being over-wedded to X which is evolving way too slowly and is over-wedded to a basic design that is simply outdated.
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As a Dijjer user you are in exactly the position of an ISP running a HTTP cache, where your customers are the Dijjer user base.
Read the link to the DMCA I reference, I think you will find that the DMCA perfectly describes what Dijjer does.
Dijjer does not create any more liability for its users than a HTTP cache creates for an ISP, and note that virtually all ISPs run HTTP caches, so far as I know, without encountering legal problems.
Just make your web server reject or redirect links that do not report Dijjer as their HTTP client. Easy.
Dijjer respects the various no-cache HTTP headers, a robots.txt file is intended for search engines, not caches.
As another guy said, this kind of cynicism is self-fulfilling, but thanks to people who weren't so cynical about politics and actually engaged with it, it is now very likely that the EU will be spared software patents.
Virtually all involved parties now claim that they are against software patents, even those who are in favour of them!
It is certainly premature to declare victory, but I think the anti-swpat movement currently has the upper hand, and all because of geeks exercising direct democracy.
I have seen a number of articles portray Blake Ross as the creator of Firefox. Is this an accurate portrayal or are journalists just doing it for the image of a 19 yr old going up against Microsoft?
Seems to defeat the point, doesn't it?
Does every minor Google or Apple related thing deserve a slashdot story? Can slashdot create a "Fanboy" section for insignificant stories advocating Google (with their software patent) and Apple (with their iTunes DRM)? That way I could filter them out more easily.
Your adulation is much appreciated.
Its just surprising that more P2P apps don't take advantage of this.
Combine this with the fact that nothing here is new news, and you really gotta as what exactly /. editors are for.
Furthermore, I regret to say that I don't see much prospect of any of the Linux GUI efforts approaching the ease of use and elegance of OS X any time soon - partially due to a lack of imagination, and partially due to being over-wedded to X which is evolving way too slowly and is over-wedded to a basic design that is simply outdated.