The article says if you are determined to be distributing illegal/unauthorized copies then
Emusic can "request" that your account with your ISP can be suspended? Yet this thing isn't even out there yet and everyone is already talking about how the MD5 fingerprint is easy to modify. Does this mean they will scan for popular modified copies too? Then will they report me to my isp because I am making available an mp3 that in reality doesn't belong to them but by some strange coincidence matches one of the MD5 signatures they are scanning for. This all sounds way too iffy to me for them to have their thumb on my freedom to be on the internet.
Napster will hopefully evolve into a marketable delivery method for today's media but letting some half-cocked geeks who only spent three weeks thinking about it scan my computer for possible terminable material, well that is just not something that sounds very legal or intelligent for that matter.
try using a startup disk. When prompted choose the option "boot without cd support". Just a word to the wary: my system locked up after i executed the "win" command from the c:\ prompt had to cycle the power but anyway it was dos.
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The article says if you are determined to be distributing illegal/unauthorized copies then
Emusic can "request" that your account with your ISP can be suspended? Yet this thing isn't even out there yet and everyone is already talking about how the MD5 fingerprint is easy to modify. Does this mean they will scan for popular modified copies too? Then will they report me to my isp because I am making available an mp3 that in reality doesn't belong to them but by some strange coincidence matches one of the MD5 signatures they are scanning for. This all sounds way too iffy to me for them to have their thumb on my freedom to be on the internet.
Napster will hopefully evolve into a marketable delivery method for today's media but letting some half-cocked geeks who only spent three weeks thinking about it scan my computer for possible terminable material, well that is just not something that sounds very legal or intelligent for that matter.
try using a startup disk. When prompted choose the option "boot without cd support". Just a word to the wary: my system locked up after i executed the "win" command from the c:\ prompt had to cycle the power but anyway it was dos.