Monday, September 23, 2002

CNet:  New version of Kazaa available The new software also takes direct aim at several of the measures that record companies and movies studios have been taking to counteract peer-to-peer piracy. A cottage industry of companies has sprung up that saturates file-swapping networks with false or corrupted versions of songs and videos, hoping to frustrate would-be downloaders. Kazaa's new software allows people to rate files so that corrupt or false files will quickly collect ratings poor enough to warn people away from downloading them. It also comes with a setting called "filter bogus music and video files" that is set by default as active. 8:05:04 AM    comment [] Steve Gilmor's opinon on copyright protection and P2P networks Berman wants to reclaim the right to blow up my machine if I engage in peer-to-peer relations over the Net. "I'm a strong believer in the beneficial potential of p-to-p networks," Berman tells the Computer and Communications Industry Association, "but most people currently use them for unbridled copyright piracy." And what's worse, Berman says, "while p-to-p technology is free to innovate new and more efficient methods of distribution that further exacerbate the piracy problem, copyright owners are not equally free to craft technological responses." It turns out that what Berman calls technological self-help measures -- electronic countermeasures used by satellite and cable companies to thwart piracy -- may be illegal when used against p-to-p networks. 8:02:26 AM    comment []

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