Hi, 2011/12/22 David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com> > > Then how about Spain? > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/0235235/spanish-court-rules-in-favor-of-p2p-engineer > > All it takes is one country, anywhere in the world. And one person in > that country with time on their hands. >
P2P is not illegal in Spain, and there is a whole bunch of engineers and scientists working on that right now; here's one of our papers on the subject http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1429696 just in case somebody is interested. However, what the court has ruled is that creating and releasing a program is not illegal; it does not say anything about using it for sharing (which, AFAIK, it's illegal -of course if it's IP-protected stuff- but _not_ prosecuted). So you are all very much welcome to Spain to research and test your P2P systems! (or check ours, of course; this paper is probably the best introduction: EvAg: a scalable peer-to-peer evolutionary algorithm, at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/papers/2010-GPEM-11-EvAg.pdf) Cheers -- JJ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers