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.

G.

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