Yale Researchers Devise P4P, RIAA Weeps

Daily Tech ^ | May 29, 2008 | Jason Mick

[enduserindy]

As if P2P wasn't bad enough, now researchers have come up with a more efficient way to fileshare

The international community may be preparing to launch the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which will force ISPs to log filesharing and hand over user records to the government, will eliminate privacy tools, and allow ex parte border searches, but there is some good news on the horizon. Researchers at Yale have come up with a breakthrough in file sharing technology. The new system coordinates Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers to raise internet efficiency, and perhaps file transfer speeds.

[enduserindy]

Now that's something.

[wastedyears]

Hey, if a band offers a new song on their website, and you download, it’s perfectly legal.

The RIAA can go pound sand.

[enduserindy]

I think the part that should be noted as the most important is “..launch the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which will force ISPs to log filesharing and hand over user records to the government, will eliminate privacy tools, and allow ex parte border searches..”

[KarlInOhio]

I just love how some Congressmen will fight to force ISPs to turn over their logs to the RIAA to search for people copying 30 year old out of print songs, but will scream "civil rights" from the rafters if the NSA does the same thing to see who wants to sneak a nuke into the country.

[KoRn]

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[ShadowAce]

[holden]

Congressmen will fight to force ISPs to turn over their logs to the RIAA to search for people copying 30 year old out of print songs, but will scream "civil rights" from the rafters if the NSA does the same thing to see who wants to sneak a nuke into the country

We see Washington wheels squeaking for grease (filthy lucre) while fighting mendacious partisan battles to rid the electorate of conservatives and Republicans, betting as they have for years, on the demonization of Bush.

By contrast, if we'd've had algore as president, we might already have experienced several smoking holes in our biggest cities with gangs of well-armed, urban thugs, à la Escape from L. A., setting up fiefdoms among formerly peaceful, rural communities.

Instead of companies to sell carbon credits, or build LadyBird's Bell helicopters, algore would've cornered the market on domestic weapons manufacture and sales, via legislation rammed through Congress by his cronies.

HF

[antiRepublicrat]

but will scream "civil rights" from the rafters if the NSA does the same thing to see who wants to sneak a nuke into the country.

This is nothing, Democrat Howard Berman tried to push through a bill that would have given copyright holders the legal right to hack into your system if they thought you had something of theirs.

I was almost hoping it would pass. I'd try to create some premise of the RIAA having my copyrighted material, then I'd hack away with impunity. Actually, maybe realizing the bill was a double-edged sword is what got them to order Berman to drop it.