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BitTorrent and the Legitimate Use of P2P - 0 views

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shared by Sean McHugh on 19 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • How can P2P networks go legit?'' My answer is, ``they already are
  • No one here would dispute that filesharing networks are used by those who would violate copyright. But this is not solely the domain of P2P; copyrighted software has been traded on electronic bulletin board systems (BBSs) since their inception and has permeated every public communication protocol on the Internet. Filesharing is a social phenomenon, not a technological one - demonizing P2P based on one use of the technology is a mistake
  • Legitimate uses of BitTorrent
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  • a distinction can be made between a technology (P2P) and implementations of that technology
  • the system was not designed with illegal use in mind, but instead to faciliate transfer of large files in an economical way.
  • trading of copyrighted files is not central to the technology
  • While you could potentially upload a virus to a public tracker and provide a .torrent file for it, you'd still have to convince people to download and run the file just as if you posted it to a website.
  • BitTorrent is a P2P system that allows large, popular files to be downloaded quickly
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  • bands are realizing that having a loyal following is very valuable and that they can both support their fans and still sell records
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  • legitimate P2P use is here and has a definite role to play in the future of the Internet
  • Sean McHugh on 19 Mar 13
     
    "How can P2P networks go legit?'' My answer is, ``they already are.'' The world-wide-web is used to download illegally copied software, copyrighted music and movies as well as child pornography, yet we're not asking how the web can go legit. No one here would dispute that filesharing networks are used by those who would violate copyright. But this is not solely the domain of P2P; copyrighted software has been traded on electronic bulletin board systems (BBSs) since their inception and has permeated every public communication protocol on the Internet. Filesharing is a social phenomenon, not a technological one - demonizing P2P based on one use of the technology is a mistake in my opinion. P2P already has positive mainstream benefits in certain communities and new uses are being found all the time."
Sean McHugh

Creative Commons Humbug - 1 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,1838244,00.asp

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shared by Sean McHugh on 13 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Sean McHugh on 13 Jul 13
     
    Will someone explain to me the benefits of a trendy system developed by Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford? Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous "fair use" provisos of existing copyright law.
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