Thanks again for a grand job, Jack!
The librarians in Multi's link make a good point:
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The ACLU said Thursday that the brief argues that peer-to-peer networks are speech-promoting technologies that have many noninfringing uses. If the MPAA and the RIAA succeed in shutting down peer-to-peer networks or making them more centralized, the precedent could create undesirable choke points that could be used to monitor Internet users, the ACLU said.
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This is absolutely true, however dominating the music and movie swapping has been so far in bandwidth terms in the P2P scene. P2P as a generic technology holds a great promise in empowering people to organize themselves into different co-operation and communication groups and networks, and it is important to prevent the vested interests who happen to control the distribution with old technologies from crippling the new technology with unnecessary limitations or control measures.
- tg
