Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Erik Parker eparker at mindsec.com
Tue Aug 31 19:07:28 UTC 2004


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> Surely the big benefits of peer to peer is it takes control way from the
> center - which will never go down well in Washington when the big
> Digital Publishers are being so successful at pushing through
> legislation via WIPO etc.

If they want to start back pedaling, perhaps we should switch to a star 
physical topology instead of mesh..  put the center of the star dead center in 
Washington where they can baby sit, run a petabit Carnivore system on it, and 
let corporations with enough money have their weight put on how things are 
run.

After all.. it is bad design typically to use a star topology for physical 
networks.. because of one huge single point of failure..  P2P is the ultimate 
mesh protocol to run on the global mesh network.
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