Comments on: p2p helps tsunami victims http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3437 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:56:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3437/comment-page-1#comment-8206 Reader's Write Sun, 02 Jan 2005 06:06:02 +0000 #comment-8206 While there are those who will claim that P2P file sharing is different than the Internet, all we have to do is go back less than a decade and remember that the same things that are said about P2P applications today was said about the end-to-end designed TCP/IP that underlies the Internet in the past. There really is nothing new here from the dinosaurs, just more attempts to shut down some of the most important advancements in human communications. That these advancements question outdated business models should be met by governments with a "so what" rather than dark-ages style attempts to roll back the clock. Russell McOrmond - http://www.flora.ca/russell/ While there are those who will claim that P2P file sharing is different than the Internet, all we have to do is go back less than a decade and remember that the same things that are said about P2P applications today was said about the end-to-end designed TCP/IP that underlies the Internet in the past.

There really is nothing new here from the dinosaurs, just more attempts to shut down some of the most important advancements in human communications. That these advancements question outdated business models should be met by governments with a “so what” rather than dark-ages style attempts to roll back the clock.

Russell McOrmond – http://www.flora.ca/russell/

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3437/comment-page-1#comment-8203 Reader's Write Sun, 02 Jan 2005 04:57:22 +0000 #comment-8203 And here I thought it was just about porn and music And here I thought it was just about porn and music

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