-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Thursday 19 September 2002 10:19, you wrote:
> 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
indeed ... and it will remain so, despite certain industry's best efforts.
> 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.
FTP is not P2P, it is client-server with a clear separation between the two.
the first app wasn't FTP, either. other applications predate it such as telnet
(it's RFC came out the year before FTP's did), mail and other more primitive
file tranfer systems.
> I can't go - due to the DMCA and related laws, I do not travel to or
> otherwise set foot on US soil.
more and more people feel this way ... the opresive and unreasonable will
simply be routed around.
- --
Aaron J. Seigo
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE9ihNH1rcusafx20MRAhmUAKCJxZmsK3rjR6aO/zmBqWM/VtFyDgCgrjCT
l4Inm+j1100OgcV79yWvbCc=
=68hZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
