New Wave Of File-Sharing Embraces Secrecy

twin-cam writes "There's an article over at The Inquirer that software developers are designing secret file sharing networks that will make it harder for the music and file industry to prove cases of piracy. According to Reuters, three file sharing networks are being planned which its users think will make it a lot harder for music industry to track and charge people on their networks. The first is Optisoft which runs on Blubster and Piolet, music-only file-sharing networks. Only a matter of time before the RIAA requests a data dump from the ISPs or just sues everyone using their network."

Freenet

[hawkeyeMI]

Use freenet... Oh wait it's unusable.

From the article

[gid13]

An Optisoft spokesman is quoted as saying it will be "four times" harder for copyright holders to trace infringers... Exactly how is that quantifiable?

Re:Good.

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

The solution is exceptionally simple: When you hear a song you want, go to the store or whatever source, and buy it. You will have no problems.

The first rule of file sharing

[Anonymous Coward]

is you do not talk about file sharing.

The second rule of file sharing is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FILE SHARING.

So the RIAA will just go ahead and sue everyone.

[The I Shing]

In light of the more secretive file-sharing networks, I think the RIAA's next strategy is just going to be to open up the phone book from every city, town, and village in the country and file suit against every single American citizen, nearly every one of which will have to settle with the RIAA for a few thousand dollars, because it will be less expensive than hiring a lawyer to prove, say, that one doesn't even own a computer.

It doesn't matter who's actually right in a legal case. It only matters who has the lawyers. And the RIAA has the lawyers.

After the music industry has made hundreds of millions of dollars from suing every single American, the MPAA will follow suit (no pun intended) with their own campaign of legal terrorism, and then the patent trolls will roll out with patent infringement suits against absolutely everyone.

Welcome to the Age of Lawyers.

Lawyers are the new American nobility. You are either a lawyer or a lawyer's subject. In the 21st Century, all Americans who are not lawyers will be forking over whatever money they have to pay for lawyers to defend themselves against other lawyers.

Lawyers will be living in mansions surrounded by the rest of us, who will toil endlessly, day and night, to earn our masters' legal protection.

Hooray!

Re:From the article

[janbjurstrom]

Perhaps they used the...

"One Ring to rule them all (1), One Ring to find them (2), One Ring to bring them all (3) and in the darkness bind them (4)"

...calculation?

Re:Freenet

[Anonymous Coward]

No it's not, it just takes a few days to download a file that isn't bigger than a few KB...

Re:Good.

[evilviper]

The solution is exceptionally simple: When you hear a song you want, go to the store or whatever source, and buy it. You will have no problems.

Actually, I've had problems with that system... I often went to buy CDs, but for some reason, lately their cash registers have had glitches that change me double. Yeah, I complain, but even the manager won't do anything about these CDs that are showing $10-$18 prices. It seems that the systems in every store around here have run into the same glitch.

The other major problem I've had is that there always seems to be something wrong with the CDs. Sure, the two songs I heard on the radio are the same, but the rest of the CD sounds like it's from another group entirely. The two songs they air on the radio are great, but the group that wrote the rest of those songs is lowsy. I try to tell stores that the songs on the CDs can't possibly be what's supposed to be on there, but they say no. It's like a Windows bug that everybody knows about, but nobody fixes, and good luck getting a refund on a Windows CD.

There are other minor problems that I'm not listing, like the fact that some CDs won't play in a lot of players. Then there's the issue that the CDs just won't fit into my iPod. They get all scratched up that way.

I've already got a way of remaining anonymous . .

[Anonymous Coward]

. . . switch my Ethernet cables with my roommate's at the wall jack when my University gets a take-down notice for my IP. When he tries to get his connection reactivated and they get his information, the RIAA will have fun pinning my Kazaa sharing on a Mac user!

Re:I've already got a way of remaining anonymous .

[Anonymous Coward]

Better hope your uni didn't bother to write down the MAC address of the offending file sharerer.

OT: My freshmen year, I had a douche for a roommate. The guy went to bed at 9pm every night, had a freaky "internet girlfriend," and took phone calls in the dark. Every once in a while, I would decide that he had had enough internet for a while, and while he was sleeping (say at ten pm on a Friday night) I would unplug his ethernet, put tape over the end of it, and plug it back in. The next night, I would usually untape it. I did this a number of time before one day I forgot to untape it the next day. The next day, I came back to my dorm room and all his ethernet cable was coiled up on the floor-- with no tape on either end.

Oops!

Oh well, it was a good prank while it lasted.