Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Mon Aug 30 21:10:19 UTC 2004

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data 
> being reconstructed from the checksum!  That would be truly amazing since I 
> could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just 61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. 
> Wow!

Technically, using an Infinate Monkeys approach, you could rebuild the 
ISO by generating the expentially huge quantity of all possible data and 
check them and find the one that matches the ISO.

Not practical but possible.

As far as the P2P thing goes, framing is a free speach argument is 
probably not a bad way to start.  For example, the guy from 
bikesagainstbush.com was arrested over the weekend (while being 
interviewed on MSNBC) and video of the arrest from a 3rd party was 
available on BT within minutes.

A method like P2P (and BT's swarming in particular) allowed this file to 
spread without overtaxing the bandwidth of the person or organization 
distributing it.

Frankly, in a day when news organizations are forced to think about 
any negative impacts of their reporting on their parent corp's agenda, 
this is a must have tech.

-S