Samantha Atkins writes:
> Yes, artists deserve to make a living. But it doesn't require
> protecting an outmoded way of publishing and distribution to take care
> of that. Most artists do not create to get rich. They create because
> they love to create.
The whole discussion is moot, anyway, because there's stuff in the
pipeline which will make prevention of sharing (publishing anonymous
content) very, very hard. While anonymity invites DoSing (namespace
attack, poisoning of content, various brands of direct denial of
service, etc.), same infrastructure also allows establishing anonymous
authorities (nyms accruing prestige), a form of peer review in
anonymous channel.
Most of the protocols are already there, what we need are software
suites, and public acceptance. By feds focusing on broken designs like
Napster, Gnutella & Co. they drive users to more secure systems. Go go
feds, I say.
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