Bring it on

[Grinnin Reaper]

According to this the Riaa and any copyright holder will be able to damage P2P networks. SPAMI just wonder if they know what they'll be getting themselves into if they start messin' with true geeks. SPAMThis just won't blow over and end the P2P sharing frenzy. SPAM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25903.html

[jinx]

Yeah, and the last para says it all:
"(RIAA) has welcomed Berman's ideas, which would effectively give copyright holders enforcement powers. ®"
The same bunch that knocked down Napster, Audio Galaxy, and others - one at the time, probally has a financial interest in Bergman, otherwise he probally wouldn't be involved.
But with all their money and influence, I don't think they will ever succeed in defeating the P2P networks, no more than Garth Brookes could shut down the Used CD stores in the early 90's, after spending more than 3 million $ of his own money. But he did try !

[Omega]

I think this sums it up pretty well. "There are doubts that the measures would prove effective." Uh...duh? They shut down Napster; did that prove effective? No way. In fact, it led to the popularization (is that a word?) of other file sharing programs/networks, mainly Morpheus and Kazaa, which actually allow for sharing of more illegal matterial.

Look at the people who are going to be supporting the P2P programs (coders, hackers, various other computer literate types), versus those supporting the music companies (Garth Brooks). They'll try something clever like "ping Kazaa," and then they'll feel stupid, and we can all sit back and relax, knowing our tax money went to great use. If they did, however, actually come up with a way to disrupt the service, it'd probably take a day or less for a version to be released with countermeasures, rendering the attacks useless.

[Grinnin Reaper]

That's what I'm thinkin' Omega. SPAMEven XP's great Product Activation has been worked around and there are even new keygen's turnin' out false code's. SPAMThey'ld have to do something impressive to shake up the file sharing community. SPAMAnd even if they do it'ld take a lot more to keep the pressure on. SPAMI don't see how those company's plan to keep ahead of the file sharin' people.

[MIK3]

I thoroughly agree with the posts posts above...being that kazaa was introduced this year and already has about 2 million downloaded a week, 95 million since its opening, i think that this company would have a fairly hard time even trying to compete with the P2P competition of downloads...i myself had Kazaa, but now am disputing as to re-download it or just move on to WMP or WINAMP or something....the one thing about Kazaa is that i dont like how i have to go online to use it...but it doesnt bother me that much because i am online alot anyway. SPAM

[vee_ess]

They dreamin...We all know it. They spent over ten million in those cd's that weren't supposed to be read by computers, but as soon as most of us read it, we thought to ourselves, "Just scratch the CD's...DUH!!!" And guess what, even the local news knows about felt tip marker countermeasures. And that just boosted the felt tip marker industry. But then again, thats nothing compared to the millions they spent on thinking themselves geniuses coming up with that idea.