I'm waiting for anonymizer/peekabooty incorporation into a p2p network.

If the goal of the network is universal access to the files, then the DMCA
goons are gonna be able to get at the files. And if the connections are
direct to the system hosting the contraband, then you have the situation
we're talking about right now. But if the route were somehow obfuscated,
then no one would really know what system was actually sharing the files
out.

Of course, then the MPAA/RIAA/etc might go after the P2P service if one
exists (a la napster) or they might be able to go after you as being a party
to the violation even though you don't host the file yourself, just act as a
node on the network...

But it could be interesting.

-G_E

> A better system would be to distrubute (over many hosts) pieces
> which are not recognisable individually (e.g. bit0.bin, bit1,
> ...bit8.bin) and then distribute a recombination system.
> That would mean that you individually would have "0101010100",
> which they would have to prove was part of whatever.mpg....
> ...difficult, and harder to prove that _you_knew_ that's what it
> was!

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