Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Mon Aug 30 22:36:39 UTC 2004

While I agree with everything you said, Scott, I think that is exactly the
kind of application that Feinstein is looking to quash.  Her agenda has
been very pro-corporate control anti-free speech, anti-individual since she
took office.  The only thing she seems more opposed to is anyone besides
her getting a gun.

Owen

--On Monday, August 30, 2004 2:10 PM -0700 Scott Call 
<scall at devolution.com> wrote:

>
> 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 speech 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

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