On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Ron Harwood wrote:
> Limewire was suppose to present - they were sending a techie/coder - but > they're getting cold feet. I think because they're afraid that the > techie will get backed into a corner regarding ethics/legal, and make > them look bad. This is very interesting. The Internet was designed to be P2P. The first application for the IP networks was a P2P file sharing tool called 'FTP'. FTP pre-dates SMTP, HTTP and every other protocol that now exists on the Internet. How can P2P be, at such a late date, be reconsidered to be unethical or illegal? P2P is just a class of communications tools, and are not themselves illegal or unethical -- only specific subsets of what can be communicated with these tools can be questioned. I can't go - due to the DMCA and related laws, I do not travel to or otherwise set foot on US soil. I'm also a "policy wonk" and not a developer at this point (writing software isn't quite like riding a bike - it does slowly fade away), which isn't likely what they are looking for. > Thanks, > > Ron --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Submission to Innovation Strategy | No2Violence in Politics http://www.flora.ca/innovation-2002.shtml | http://www.no-dot.ca/
