I've been thinking about this one for a little while. (They've been doing this sort of crap ever since I started playing with gnuttella). I think the thing to do is have the client send out a random search string when it first starts off. Any responses to it should then be filtered out. Problem solved
The thing I dont see anyone mentioning is that, while I can see that knowing the account on Napster that is distributing Metallica mp3s could be useful to disable that account. With Gnuttella there are no centralized servers to take accounts away from. Therefore, it means that any lawyer would have to go after each individual which they dont want to do. Its not like Napsters case where all they have to do is get accounts shut down.
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I've been thinking about this one for a little while. (They've been doing this sort of crap ever since I started playing with gnuttella). I think the thing to do is have the client send out a random search string when it first starts off. Any responses to it should then be filtered out. Problem solved
The thing I dont see anyone mentioning is that, while I can see that knowing the account on Napster that is distributing Metallica mp3s could be useful to disable that account. With Gnuttella there are no centralized servers to take accounts away from. Therefore, it means that any lawyer would have to go after each individual which they dont want to do. Its not like Napsters case where all they have to do is get accounts shut down.