The weak side of Peer-to-peer nets organized as Napster, is that a central server is however needed to know where pc with dynamic IP are located. The central server may be controlled by Napster Inc, lawyers, majors. A model like Gnutella, where servers are avaible (or, I think, OpenNap), could be better: people determined to fight for free-access culture could install a server on their pc, and not only the client, and users wanting to access digital-ware, as it is their universal right, could connect one of such servers.
But, yes, what about dynamic IP? Possible soulutions:
1) If one has an home page, may place there its current dynamic IP, updated in some automatic way, by the involved pc (i.e.: the dial-up connection scripts etc.) More powerful solutions are possible, dependently on what you may install on hosting server (cgi and so on). Program should be developed for that. Or has someone already working for that? I read SlashDot, but I have no news about.
2) IP could be requested by email, since email addresses are static. I imagine a server program, working via email. When a user wants some mp3 and needs a Napster server, knowing you provide a napster server on your pc, and knowing your email address, he may send a mail with sometihing like "Subject: IP-request" and the answer could be managed automatically both by your pc (checking mailbox periodiccally), and the email sender (using IP for connecting to your server)
The whole question however, is making ptp more decentralized, completely eliminating the need for a central server to connect. Does anyone know about already existent effords toward that direction?
Politically:
I think somewhat of what they call piracy (of course, not all piracy) is a form modern "proletarian expropriation", a way to get what the power negates you. I have learnt computers and programming and IT technology with strongly sw copyng, with no regard for copyrights. Otherwise, I would have not been enough rich to get all what I've needed to study and learn.
However this is the past: now a new revolution is coming. Now we have a new free access / free production / free sharing culture (someone calls it "GNU economy"), and I think it should be extended to all immaterial productions, all digital-ware, all the digital steam of the IT era. If sharks of majors close their copyrighted songs to free access, getting that way an intollerable amount of profits, we must promote the model of free-software and Open Source among artists, telling them it's more ethical, that they will be more indipendent and free from big-business industry, and, tough they won't become incredibly rich, they could get some "clean" money rewards anyway, and living happy or more happy anyway...
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The weak side of Peer-to-peer nets organized as Napster, is that a central server is however needed to know where pc with dynamic IP are located. The central server may be controlled by Napster Inc, lawyers, majors. A model like Gnutella, where servers are avaible (or, I think, OpenNap), could be better: people determined to fight for free-access culture could install a server on their pc, and not only the client, and users wanting to access digital-ware, as it is their universal right, could connect one of such servers.
But, yes, what about dynamic IP? Possible soulutions:
1) If one has an home page, may place there its current dynamic IP, updated in some automatic way, by the involved pc (i.e.: the dial-up connection scripts etc.) More powerful solutions are possible, dependently on what you may install on hosting server (cgi and so on). Program should be developed for that. Or has someone already working for that? I read SlashDot, but I have no news about.
2) IP could be requested by email, since email addresses are static. I imagine a server program, working via email. When a user wants some mp3 and needs a Napster server, knowing you provide a napster server on your pc, and knowing your email address, he may send a mail with sometihing like "Subject: IP-request" and the answer could be managed automatically both by your pc (checking mailbox periodiccally), and the email sender (using IP for connecting to your server)
The whole question however, is making ptp more decentralized, completely eliminating the need for a central server to connect. Does anyone know about already existent effords toward that direction?
Politically:
I think somewhat of what they call piracy (of course, not all piracy) is a form modern "proletarian expropriation", a way to get what the power negates you. I have learnt computers and programming and IT technology with strongly sw copyng, with no regard for copyrights. Otherwise, I would have not been enough rich to get all what I've needed to study and learn.
However this is the past: now a new revolution is coming. Now we have a new free access / free production / free sharing culture (someone calls it "GNU economy"), and I think it should be extended to all immaterial productions, all digital-ware, all the digital steam of the IT era. If sharks of majors close their copyrighted songs to free access, getting that way an intollerable amount of profits, we must promote the model of free-software and Open Source among artists, telling them it's more ethical, that they will be more indipendent and free from big-business industry, and, tough they won't become incredibly rich, they could get some "clean" money rewards anyway, and living happy or more happy anyway...
Long Life to Richard Stallman!
Zak Mc Kracken