p2p file-sharing forum slated
p2pnet.net News:- The Council on Competitiveness’ bipartisan Forum on Innovation & Technology will devote its February 26 boxed lunch session to a discussion on peer-to-peer networks, the technology behind them, and the potential they hold for legitimate business and consumer applications.
Co-chairs senators Ensign and Wyden are, “right, right and right again,” says P2P United executive director, Adam Eisgrau.
How can we build a fair and viable marketplace in which P2P technology plays a central and legitimate role?’ – is exactly the right question to ask, he says, adding:
“It’s being posed in a productively neutral and open-ended manner, and it’s being asked at the right time to have a profound impact.”
P2P United represents BearShare (FreePeers, Inc), Blubster (Manolito P2P), Limewire (LimeWire, LLC), Grokster (Grokster Ltd), eDonkey2000 (MetaMachine Inc) and Morpheus (Streamcast Networks Inc).
February 25th, 2004 at 2:12 am
On the other hand, the panel could be more like a comic out-take from Mel Gibson’s Passion, with copanelists RIAA and an “industry security expert” ready to nail poor lil’ Adam to the cross.
February 25th, 2004 at 6:00 pm
I’m the “industry security expert”. I don’t plan on nailing Adam to any crosses. Mostly I plan to talk about legitimate uses of P2P that policymakers aren’t aware of, centered mostly around BitTorrent.
March 3rd, 2004 at 8:13 pm
The presentation I gave at this forum is available here:
http://www.joestewart.org/p2p.html