i'v just read this : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- Would You Get Free Content from Napster, Gnutella, or Freenet?
The spread of MP3 files, and their centrality to Napster, skew the debate over free and copyrighted content. Lots of people are willing to download free music files from strangers, because if they find out that the sampling quality is lousy or the song breaks off halfway through, nothing has been lost. They can go back to Napster and try another site. Matters would be entirely different if you tried to get free software from strangers, especially in binary form. You'd never know whether a Trojan Horse was introduced that, two years later, would wipe your hard disk clean and send a photo of a naked child to the local police chief. (And you thought UCITA's self-help provision was as bad as it could get!) True, people get binary software or "warez" from unauthorized sources already, but they often have a pre-existing relationship with the person putting up the software. Ironically, they can trust the unauthorized software precisely because it is copyrighted and available only in binary form; malicious people would find it extremely difficult to patch it so that it can still run but produce deleterious effects on the user. (Unless those malicious people are angry manufacturers--will we start to experience this kind of self-help from vendors?) : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- from http://www.webreview.com/pi/2000/05_12_00.shtml does anyone think this issue should be studied ? as key indices are being built, and freenet search engines also, anyone searching for 'toto' could find a key such as '/music/toto/Africa.mp3' ... but what if the file is in fact an exe or i don't know what kind of a virus .... is there any check of the format/danger while inserting a file with basic clients ????...... i may be wrong, but i don't know this kind of thing is done on Gnutella .... anyone interested ? PS : sorry for my poor english ...i am just a french frog! David _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
