P2P Melded with NAT, is this a litigation proof model for P2P?
I having been thinking about the RIAA and MPAA hiring organizations to monitoring people's file sharing activities and then using that information to prosecute individuals. The recent Verizon case comes to mind
http://www.eff.org/Cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/20030121_p r.php
. I propose a new P2P technology that mixes P2P and NAT technologies. Each client spends half of it's bandwidth on sharing it's own files, the other half on NATing other people's files. Direct connections to download a file are never permitted, all downloads must bounce through at least one NAT hop, and the clients never respond back to a search request with the location of the file, only that they know where to get the file from and the bandwidth that they can deliver the file at.
In this type of system, which I'm sure can easily be designed and implemented, are the relaying PC's liable for the files they transmit, or do they fall under a "safe harbor" ISP type provision? Or is all this pointless and we should just push Congress for the type of "media tax" that is now placed on blank CD-Rs, tapes, etc to be applied to consumer bandwidth in exchange for a truce with the RIAA, MPAA, etc?
Peerbuddy for Kazaa, Emule, etc, A P2P Firewall/Quality Filter Beta block list now at 2,200,000 IP's blocked.
The block list has been updated and now currently blocks over 2,200,000 IP addresses. New additions to the list are being found daily. Beta users will get an email with an update link. New beta users are encouraged to join at http://www.isopleth.com/peerbuddy.htm. No Ad-ware, Spy-ware or viruses.
PeerBuddy is a mini firewall for P2P (Kazaa, EMule, etc). The program filters out the IP addresses of people who share blank, or faked files and it prevents you from wasting your time downloading those bad files. This will help with your downloads since a number of organizations and individuals are sharing bad and blank files out there. It is also going to be blocking known email miners, stalkers, spammers and surveillance companies.
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P2P Melded with NAT, is this a litigation proof model for P2P?
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. I propose a new P2P technology that mixes P2P and NAT technologies. Each client spends half of it's bandwidth on sharing it's own files, the other half on NATing other people's files. Direct connections to download a file are never permitted, all downloads must bounce through at least one NAT hop, and the clients never respond back to a search request with the location of the file, only that they know where to get the file from and the bandwidth that they can deliver the file at.
I having been thinking about the RIAA and MPAA hiring organizations to monitoring people's file sharing activities and then using that information to prosecute individuals. The recent Verizon case comes to mind http://www.eff.org/Cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/20030121_
In this type of system, which I'm sure can easily be designed and implemented, are the relaying PC's liable for the files they transmit, or do they fall under a "safe harbor" ISP type provision? Or is all this pointless and we should just push Congress for the type of "media tax" that is now placed on blank CD-Rs, tapes, etc to be applied to consumer bandwidth in exchange for a truce with the RIAA, MPAA, etc?
Peerbuddy for Kazaa, Emule, etc, A P2P Firewall/Quality Filter Beta block list now at 2,200,000 IP's blocked.
The block list has been updated and now currently blocks over 2,200,000 IP addresses. New additions to the list are being found daily. Beta users will get an email with an update link. New beta users are encouraged to join at http://www.isopleth.com/peerbuddy.htm. No Ad-ware, Spy-ware or viruses.
PeerBuddy is a mini firewall for P2P (Kazaa, EMule, etc). The program filters out the IP addresses of people who share blank, or faked files and it prevents you from wasting your time downloading those bad files. This will help with your downloads since a number of organizations and individuals are sharing bad and blank files out there. It is also going to be blocking known email miners, stalkers, spammers and surveillance companies.