The end of illegal peer to peer file sharing?

Viralg.com ^ | Fri Apr 15 2005 | Press Release

[infocats]

I have no fiduciary connection with Viralg, either directly or indirectly!

Posted FYI only.

[redshield3]

Oh, this sucks. First the i2hub lawsuits this week, now if this thing goes public...

::sigh:: we're coming to the end of an era.

You know, if the MPAA/RIAA had their way, nobody would own any VCR's, tape decks, iPods, or even computers.

[Nick Danger]

The eternal struggle continues between the makers of armor, and the makers of armor-piercing shells.

[Fiddlstix]

[SteveMcKing]

This is altogether as convincing as any piece of spam.

No Nobody, Inc. piece of software is going to be widely adopted, nor effectively stop p2p even if it were. They're basically hoping that some billion dollar entertainment firm will desperately drop a tiny $1 million on their company in hopes of a long-shot success.

Good luck with that plan, and don't quit your day job.

[The Red Zone]

Sounds like this stuff could be used to vandalize any P2P content.

[Phocion]

I can't imagine legal software that destroys content on people's computers without their knowledge.

[OneTimeLurker]

Orrin Hatch suggested that the RIAA should have the ability to destroy peoples' computers remotely if illegal content were discovered on a p2p network.

[Wayne07]

worst case, the more pressure applied and there will just be private instead of public p2p networks. There is already at least one great private p2p client (let's you set up trusted groups). http://www.grouper.com/

[swilhelm73]

Egads.

Let's hope that was a sign of Hatch's computer illiteracy and not a truly held belief.

[Alien Gunfighter]

An old Dilbert cartoon comes to mind--

(Dilbert explains to Dogbert that he is writing the ultimate porn-filtering program)

Dogbert: So, you're going to match your intellect against the collective sex drive of every teenager in the world that has a computer?

Replacing 'sex drive' with 'music selection' fits here...

[boris]

What is Virlag latitude and longitude?

[OneTimeLurker]

"Let's hope that was a sign of Hatch's computer illiteracy and not a truly held belief."

You be the judge. I think he is just an idiot. That's his problem.

http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html

[billybudd]

Big time spam.

[need_a_screen_name]

I wouldn't mind purchasing (downloading) a few songs, if I could find a place that sells mp3s without strange coding, or a need for a subscription or special player. Once the song is downloaded, I could do with it as I wished.

Any ideas?

[JenB]

Uh, sure. I'll believe this without any technical backup.

Bet it doesn't work for bittorrent, which is the real player in file sharing these days anyway.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

heh,nice to see the RIAA's fundraiser drive for britney spears's boobjob is still going,

think ill keep downloading..those things are big enough..any bigger and they could be used for coast guard floatation devices

[sumocide]

Are virtual algorithms better than plain old algorithms?

Many P2P applications employ unsecure methods of file identification/verification. Therefore what this company promises is possible. However this will cause the P2P community to switch to currently undefeatable measures in a very short time.

[Maurice Tift]

if I could find a place that sells mp3s without strange coding

   This one looks good: ALLOFMP3.COM.

   You can actually tell it how you want your music encoded [Mp3, Wma, Ogg, Mpc, FLAC, Monkey Audio, Mpeg - 4 AAC (iTunes compatible)] and you can set the rate from 128kbps to CD quality.

[eno_]

This outfit is a fraud and scam at best.

The founders will find themselves sued, or worse, for damaging anyone's PC.