IMHO, Europe is just looking to play itself against the US in an attempt to win it's businesses lots of cash.
Am I right in thinking that this will cause US patents to become valid in Europe and vice versa?
Obviously open source development methods are trampled on since this doesn't make politicians enough money.
Partnerships with private companies are not a good thing. I'm already suprised to hear that the default search engine is not changeable for certain locales!
What happens when another search engine comes along and people wanna change to that? Coming from the Mozilla foundation who are promoting FREEDOM this sounds WRONG! Lock-in's are bad bad bad!
With all this potential money for the foundation out there, it had better not become greedy. It's main focus should always be creating a free and flexible browser for the users. It should not get it's objectives confused.
It's true that as soon as you take down a major site like suprnova, you are effectively speeding up the evolution of BitTorrent, just as life evolves faster when suppressed by natural forces.
RIAA/MPAA need to come up with inexpensive competing systems that people are going to want instead of DRM infested content.
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This is what anonymous peer to peer is for. In a true anonymous system where the traffic is routed via intermediate nodes, neither the source or destination node can be known (unless you happen to be the former or latter).
Therefore, no node can be accused of knowingly committing a crime.
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Am I right in thinking that this will cause US patents to become valid in Europe and vice versa?
Obviously open source development methods are trampled on since this doesn't make politicians enough money.
What happens when another search engine comes along and people wanna change to that? Coming from the Mozilla foundation who are promoting FREEDOM this sounds WRONG! Lock-in's are bad bad bad!
With all this potential money for the foundation out there, it had better not become greedy. It's main focus should always be creating a free and flexible browser for the users. It should not get it's objectives confused.
RIAA/MPAA need to come up with inexpensive competing systems that people are going to want instead of DRM infested content.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/dayearth died.shtml/
Therefore, no node can be accused of knowingly committing a crime.
See projects MUTE http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/c ustom&xmlName=ants for more info
and ANts http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gwren/home.jsp?page=