On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Michael Gurstein wrote: > ... > > FIGHT AGAINST INTERNET FILE-SWAPPING CALLED HOPELESS > Four Microsoft researchers (speaking only for themselves) have told an ACM > workshop that the attempt to stop people from using digital file-swapping > > ...
you can find the paper here: http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/prog.html ("The darknet and the future of content distribution") on a related issue there's a short article on cnn about the seizure of u.s. navy campus computers under suspicion of "file swapping". http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/11/25/music.navy.reut/index.html oliver # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]