Darknet, a ‘Digital Copyright Revolution’: III
p2pnet view P2P:- In her introduction to The Darknet: A Digital Copyright Revolution, “We’re in the midst of a digital revolution, says Jessica A. Wood.
Published in the Richmond School of Law’s Journal of Law and Technology (JOLT), in what she describes as the Age of Peer Production, “armies of amateur participants demand the freedom to rip, remix, and share their own digital culture”, she says.
“It was a great read, even for a vicarious, willful infringer like myself”, says regular p2pnet contributor surfer, “By day an Ivy league graduate and senior SQL architect / engineer / mathametician working for the Health Care Industry” and “By night, a nemesis of the movie/music/software/font/ebook/tv industries who’s been supporting the file sharing community for more than to 12 years.”
It “thoroughly outlines the impact of the Digital Era on Copyright”, he says, going on
Jessica technically breaks down centralized and de-centralized networking primarily used by existing P2P application on the market, and she explains that the de-centralized type of network would never have evolved without pressure on centralized networks from the Copyright Nazis.
She goes on to quote/prove/validate every inch of her findings with references to other legal briefs, court judgements, summary findings and other research projects.
And although she misses the structure of DarkNets by a bit, her analysis of centralized P2P networking is spot on. She even details the improvements in LimeWire 5 that came about due to the legal pressures from Copyright assholes like the RIAA, including the invention of decentralized P2P networking such as Bittorrent and File Lockers.
The legal brief itself is a call to rescind existing Copyright for Digital Distribution, which is a good idea, but probably won’t get much traction with the Copyright Nazis anytime soon. Even Mike Masnick wrote an article on how Copyright serves the middleman, and not the actual content creators.
If Copyright aligns itself more closely to what society will accept, it’ll probably be respected more, but until then, the antics of the MAFIAA will only encourage infringement, and newer technologies that’ll thwart any attempt of disruption of said infringement.
But from a DarkNet perspective, it’d be nice if Digital Distribution was removed from Copyright. It would validate, and legalize all that we do in the DarkNets.
That isn’t going to happen anytime soon,however. The progression of technology in the DarkNets has always been spurred on by the antics of the MAFIAA.
For every move they make, we come up with a counter-move that makes their move useless.
IPREDATOR, waste of time, HADOPI, useless, 3 strikes, will only affect the uninformed internet n00b, and it goes on and on.
We’re even prepared for when they force ISPs to DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) our usage. We thwart it by either VPN (Virtual Private Network) or encryption (SHA 256).
The Court system has an additional benefit, it allows us to see what’s on the table, allowing us to be prepared for it if/when the MAFIAA assholes win that particular case.
Did anyone notice that the French switched to file lockers and streaming long before HADOPI even went into effect? This is where technology is the great ‘equalizer’ to the dying ideal of Copyright.
The Darknet: A Digital Copyright Revolution is a “great read for anyone on either side of the fence on Copyright”, surfer adds
Click here for what Crosbie Fitch has to say. Also see DarkNets: not tomorrow, but here and now
… and identi.ca
July, 2010
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July 19th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
I think the RIAA people know there is no way they are going to keep hardcore people with access to private networks (aka darknets) from piracy. They want to boot Joe Sixpack off the piracy food chain, which he has been feeding off of prodigiously since Napster days, and somewhat less so in the sneakernet/mix tape days. So far they have been unsuccessful in that endeavour. First they shut down Napster, Joe Sixpack moved on to decentralized p2p networks that could not be shut down. Then they tried threats and intimidation via the lawsuit campaign. Another fail, the RIAA sharks gobbled up some of the school, but the rest of the fish kept on downloading. The fact is the masses have gotten used to having what they want (no more “europe only” releases thanks to the net and mp3), when they want it(Movie anyone, get it NOW, not months later), how they want it (thank you soooo much hackers, for stripping out that OBNOXIOUS drm), and for the right price(so, you are offering it to me drm free, immediately, with no artificial waiting period for free! SOLD!!!)
That’s not going to change, no matter what kind of draconian crap MAFIAA groups try to push through. The only thing I can see working for them is some kind of net tax, which is why I have opposed it so vehemently. I don’t WANT those assholes getting funding in perpetuity.
July 19th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@ Luffy: “(no more “europe only” releases thanks to the net and mp3)”
Haha, yep, so true. I’ve obtained a lot of releases in lossless that were only available in Europe. Just gotta love technology.