Comments on: Shareconnector, Releases4u http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3479 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3479/comment-page-1#comment-8341 Reader's Write Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:02:49 +0000 #comment-8341 I think site/server and espeically filesharers should Refuse and resist until the swat team comes in guns blazing and the blooddy corpses of the site operators are shared up on the internet and later ends up on national tv and then let the riots begin! I think site/server and espeically filesharers should Refuse and resist until the swat team comes in guns blazing and the blooddy corpses of the site operators are shared up on the internet and later ends up on national tv and then let the riots begin!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3479/comment-page-1#comment-8333 Reader's Write Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:43:24 +0000 #comment-8333 A good analogy to show that posting identifiers of copyrighted works o­n a website is perfectly legal (with or without knowledge of it) are barcodes (or: ASIN/ISBN codes). Lets say you buy a DVD movie. It has a title, length and barcode o­n it. Ask a judge whether posting these three pieces of information o­n a website (or catalogue) is legal. There is no doubt in my mind that it is because the o­nly thing you do is to identify a (copyrighted) work. If this were illegal then companies like amazon would be violating copyright law. An ed2k-link contains the same kind of information: title (filename), length (filesize), barcode (hash). These three kinds of information have exactly the same function: identification. If you were to put a couple of these ed2k-links and their corresponding title/length/barcodes o­n o­ne piece of paper it would become perfectly clear there isn't any real difference. When however somebody says to you: "you can get a pirated DVD at that address" he is (most likely) breaking the law. So would you (most likely) be if you told somebody where to get a copyrighted file. But this a matter of localization not identification. Ed2k-links have nothing to do with localization. While "normal" links point to (or resolve into) a single address (analogy: it gives you the streetname and number of a pirate) ed2k-links only give a description of a (copyrighted) work (analogy: the movie contains 321 scenes, 34 shots are fired and the total age in days of all the actors is 532489: id=32134532489). Hope this helps. Just my 2 cents... PS. What would happen if Amazon would use hash-codes for their "Catalogue Numbers" of DVDs? In other words: is a hash copyrighted itself? A good analogy to show that posting identifiers of copyrighted works o­n a website is perfectly legal (with or without knowledge of it) are barcodes (or: ASIN/ISBN codes).

Lets say you buy a DVD movie. It has a title, length and barcode o­n it.

Ask a judge whether posting these three pieces of information o­n a website (or catalogue) is legal. There is no doubt in my mind that it is because the o­nly thing you do is to identify a (copyrighted) work. If this were illegal then companies like amazon would be violating copyright law.

An ed2k-link contains the same kind of information: title (filename), length (filesize), barcode (hash). These three kinds of information have exactly the same function: identification. If you were to put a couple of these ed2k-links and their corresponding title/length/barcodes o­n o­ne piece of paper it would become perfectly clear there isn’t any real difference.

When however somebody says to you: “you can get a pirated DVD at that address” he is (most likely) breaking the law. So would you (most likely) be if you told somebody where to get a copyrighted file. But this a matter of localization not identification. Ed2k-links have nothing to do with localization.

While “normal” links point to (or resolve into) a single address (analogy: it gives you the streetname and number of a pirate) ed2k-links only give a description of a (copyrighted) work (analogy: the movie contains 321 scenes, 34 shots are fired and the total age in days of all the actors is 532489: id=32134532489).

Hope this helps.

Just my 2 cents…

PS. What would happen if Amazon would use hash-codes for their “Catalogue Numbers” of DVDs? In other words: is a hash copyrighted itself?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3479/comment-page-1#comment-8315 Reader's Write Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:56:50 +0000 #comment-8315 great article, he's good :) great article, he’s good :)

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