China goes p2p
p2p news / p2pnet: Chairman Bill isn’t the only one eyeing up the web.
Communist China has announced a broadband P2P Application Promotion Alliance to, "coordinate with the government’s scheme to explore P2P’s commercial application in China," says ChinaTechNews.
The agency name trims down to P2P APA. Catchy, huh? As good as RIAA and MPAA any day ; )
The Internet Society of China (ISC) organization, "encourages the development of intellectual property containing P2P network application core technologies, and it will regulate the technology’s application and promotion based on intellectual property rights," states the story.
"It will also bridge the government’s supervisory role in this area."
Rumours that the RIAA, MPAA, Dick Cheney and George W, are ‘helping’ the P2P APA to get started shouldn’t be entirely discounted.
"P2P enables users to communicate and share Internet-based information without being linking to a main server," says ChinaTechNews. "Therefore, it makes communications more direct, interactive and convenient."
But, it warns, "P2P technologies have also been blamed for the easy downloading and dissemination of copyright materials like music and movies.
"ISC plans to help regulate Chinese companies’ activities to ensure that illegal activities are not spawned by P2P in China."
Definitely stay tuned.
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See:-
eyeing up the web – Microsoft’s ‘new’ direction, November 2, 2005
ChinaTechNews – ISC Forms P2P Alliance To Regulate Broadband Application, November 2, 2005
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November 2nd, 2005 at 2:43 pm
“and it will regulate the technology’s application and promotion based on intellectual property rights”
There is no way such a thing is acomplishable.
You either have freedom to share files or prohibit p2p altogether.
If freedom is allowed with the caveat that copyright protected files cannot be shared, then a copyright protected files filter is required. The problem being that such a filter, that actually works, cannot be designed. Just as there is no way to prevent the copying of what is seen or heard, there is no way to filter files shared so as to allow public domain files (or files not in the public domain but the owner wants to allow their sharing) to pass through and not allow copyright protected files to go through.
Then there is the problem of determing what is a public domain files with so many copyright laws involved, one for each country.
Then there is the havoc in determing the owneship of even copyrighted works. Take the example of the song Star spangled banner. It is claimed to be owned by 277 publishers or composers at http://www.ascap.com/. Will anyone take a crack at determining if this song, the American national anthem can be shared? Better yet, will anyone share their national anthem and wait for the RIAA or ASCAP lawsuit to arrive?
Expect another revolt in China.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
November 2nd, 2005 at 3:37 pm
As previous articles alluded to, the MPAA & RIAA came-a-knocking to China’s door, complaining of “continuing violations of copyright and IP”…yadda yadda yaa….
Well you get the idea. This just makes independent film makers like myself more excited, because while the racket is busy “suing” and “litigating”, they will spend less time producing. That means, I will have a better shot releasing material WITHOUT DRM, WITHOUT “fair use” restrictions, and WITHOUT Hollywood CRAP!!!
I’m getting back to work…