Comments on: Ending The War on File Sharing Doesn’t Mean the End of Copyright http://techliberation.com/2008/06/11/ending-the-war-on-file-sharing-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-copyright/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2008/06/11/ending-the-war-on-file-sharing-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-54295 MikeT Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:53:44 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10907#comment-54295 <p>The threat of viruses is a good motivator to not use P2P, and the copyright cartels could take advantage of that by quietly unleashing some pretty horrible ones like ones that corrupt the BIOS.</p> The threat of viruses is a good motivator to not use P2P, and the copyright cartels could take advantage of that by quietly unleashing some pretty horrible ones like ones that corrupt the BIOS.

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2008/06/11/ending-the-war-on-file-sharing-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-42288 MikeT Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:53:44 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10907#comment-42288 <p>The threat of viruses is a good motivator to not use P2P, and the copyright cartels could take advantage of that by quietly unleashing some pretty horrible ones like ones that corrupt the BIOS.</p> The threat of viruses is a good motivator to not use P2P, and the copyright cartels could take advantage of that by quietly unleashing some pretty horrible ones like ones that corrupt the BIOS.

]]> By: Timon http://techliberation.com/2008/06/11/ending-the-war-on-file-sharing-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-54294 Timon Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:24:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10907#comment-54294 <p>I think the emphasis on networked p2p is misplaced, a tremendous amount of file sharing involves someone plugging in a usb cable. It will be wonderfully ironic when the next-gen storage medium, the Blu-ray disc, instead of being used to store one 50g HDTV-ready file, is used to store 75 iPhone-ready ones. The collections boggle the mind -- all Oscar winners since 1931 on one disk, all rat pack, brat pack, and Soderbergh-pack movies in the sleeve of your text book. At that point people arguing for progress and freedom will insist on the need for blu-ray sniffing dogs in high schools, natch.</p> I think the emphasis on networked p2p is misplaced, a tremendous amount of file sharing involves someone plugging in a usb cable. It will be wonderfully ironic when the next-gen storage medium, the Blu-ray disc, instead of being used to store one 50g HDTV-ready file, is used to store 75 iPhone-ready ones. The collections boggle the mind — all Oscar winners since 1931 on one disk, all rat pack, brat pack, and Soderbergh-pack movies in the sleeve of your text book. At that point people arguing for progress and freedom will insist on the need for blu-ray sniffing dogs in high schools, natch.

]]> By: Timon http://techliberation.com/2008/06/11/ending-the-war-on-file-sharing-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-42286 Timon Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:24:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10907#comment-42286 <p>I think the emphasis on networked p2p is misplaced, a tremendous amount of file sharing involves someone plugging in a usb cable. It will be wonderfully ironic when the next-gen storage medium, the Blu-ray disc, instead of being used to store one 50g HDTV-ready file, is used to store 75 iPhone-ready ones. The collections boggle the mind -- all Oscar winners since 1931 on one disk, all rat pack, brat pack, and Soderbergh-pack movies in the sleeve of your text book. At that point people arguing for progress and freedom will insist on the need for blu-ray sniffing dogs in high schools, natch.</p> I think the emphasis on networked p2p is misplaced, a tremendous amount of file sharing involves someone plugging in a usb cable. It will be wonderfully ironic when the next-gen storage medium, the Blu-ray disc, instead of being used to store one 50g HDTV-ready file, is used to store 75 iPhone-ready ones. The collections boggle the mind — all Oscar winners since 1931 on one disk, all rat pack, brat pack, and Soderbergh-pack movies in the sleeve of your text book. At that point people arguing for progress and freedom will insist on the need for blu-ray sniffing dogs in high schools, natch.

]]> By: Self Appointed Genius http://techliberation.com/2008/06/11/ending-the-war-on-file-sharing-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-54293 Self Appointed Genius Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:50:16 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10907#comment-54293 <p>While forcible attempts to kill file sharing as doomed to failure, that doesn't mean the phenomenon won't die off of its own defects. These P2P networks are littered with viruses, spyware, etc. That risk drives a lot of people, technical and nontechnical users alike, away from P2P.<br><br>This could be especially effective because the nature of the virus is changing. It used to be that to get a virus you'd have to download an executable, run it, and it would wipe your harddrive. That's not true anymore. Modern malware is about making money. So we'll see more ID theft, more spying on your email and bank account, and while worms that jump from machine to machine on their own seem to be a thing of the past, that doesn't mean a bug in P2P software (which tends to be pretty sketchy) couldn't be used in such a way.<br><br>Is that enough to scare people off of P2P?<br><br>Well, depending on how bad the situation gets, yes.</p> While forcible attempts to kill file sharing as doomed to failure, that doesn’t mean the phenomenon won’t die off of its own defects. These P2P networks are littered with viruses, spyware, etc. That risk drives a lot of people, technical and nontechnical users alike, away from P2P.

This could be especially effective because the nature of the virus is changing. It used to be that to get a virus you’d have to download an executable, run it, and it would wipe your harddrive. That’s not true anymore. Modern malware is about making money. So we’ll see more ID theft, more spying on your email and bank account, and while worms that jump from machine to machine on their own seem to be a thing of the past, that doesn’t mean a bug in P2P software (which tends to be pretty sketchy) couldn’t be used in such a way.

Is that enough to scare people off of P2P?

Well, depending on how bad the situation gets, yes.

]]> By: Self Appointed Genius http://techliberation.com/2008/06/11/ending-the-war-on-file-sharing-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-42283 Self Appointed Genius Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:50:16 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10907#comment-42283 <p>While forcible attempts to kill file sharing as doomed to failure, that doesn't mean the phenomenon won't die off of its own defects. These P2P networks are littered with viruses, spyware, etc. That risk drives a lot of people, technical and nontechnical users alike, away from P2P.</p> <p>This could be especially effective because the nature of the virus is changing. It used to be that to get a virus you'd have to download an executable, run it, and it would wipe your harddrive. That's not true anymore. Modern malware is about making money. So we'll see more ID theft, more spying on your email and bank account, and while worms that jump from machine to machine on their own seem to be a thing of the past, that doesn't mean a bug in P2P software (which tends to be pretty sketchy) couldn't be used in such a way.</p> <p>Is that enough to scare people off of P2P?</p> <p>Well, depending on how bad the situation gets, yes.</p> While forcible attempts to kill file sharing as doomed to failure, that doesn’t mean the phenomenon won’t die off of its own defects. These P2P networks are littered with viruses, spyware, etc. That risk drives a lot of people, technical and nontechnical users alike, away from P2P.

This could be especially effective because the nature of the virus is changing. It used to be that to get a virus you’d have to download an executable, run it, and it would wipe your harddrive. That’s not true anymore. Modern malware is about making money. So we’ll see more ID theft, more spying on your email and bank account, and while worms that jump from machine to machine on their own seem to be a thing of the past, that doesn’t mean a bug in P2P software (which tends to be pretty sketchy) couldn’t be used in such a way.

Is that enough to scare people off of P2P?

Well, depending on how bad the situation gets, yes.

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