"Gilles Tran" <gil### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
news:4a0547b8$1@news.povray.org...
> From: "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
> Newsgroups: povray.off-topic
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 2:00 AM
> Subject: The next evolution in P2P
>
>
> > This would eliminate the ability to rationally accuse some site like The
> > Pirate Bay of knowing what's in the torrents they're serving. The site
> > would have to actively go and try to download some of every data stream
> > and then check it to find out what's in the torrent.
>
> I'm not sure that would change anything. Either the site can point to
> torrents in a usable way (providing content descriptions, rating etc.) or
it
> can't. It it can then the site can be accused to assist in copyright
> infringement and no amount of obfuscation or "king kong defense" will
> matter. If it cannot then the site is useless and whatever business model
it
> has falls apart.
> BTW, there's an idea floating around, that consists in encrypting content
> without giving the key, but still making it not too hard to crack, so
people
> wanting the content can easily get it (by using a cracking tool and
waiting
> a couple of minutes). However, people wanting to prove an infringement
would
> also have to crack the key, which could be illegal in some legal systems
and
> make the proof null in court, a little like B&E someone's house to prove
> that he stole your things. I don't think it's workable in practice either
> (law enforcement agencies could bypass it of course) , but it's cute.

Now, if all the effort people put into finding ways of stealing other
people's works could be put into actually creating something of their own...

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