Originally posted by: Colt45
yea, thats the RIAA for you. can't get rid of the source so they kill the middle man :disgust:
yeah the means of delivery is the only effective way. The share sites have IP addresses that arent centralised, it would be quite easy to block those IPs at ISP and backbone router level.
The problem is stopping ftp: without word searches which I dont know whether that would be possible despite ftp traffic being quite small compared with HTML type traffic. Or stopping email rings with broadband. Unless they did word or file type searches then they couldnt really do it, especially with a file download system liek kazaa that has a propreitory type download format, as far as I can see you wcouldnt filter a kazaa file out effectively, like you could an MP3 or FTP transferred file.
Also with Direct Connect what if your DC programme 'memorised' thousands of static IP addresses for other users, then you would have a impossible unbreakable totally decentralised system, the only targets would be the 'host' IPs that listed online users songs, and you could hde these anyway.
Personally I think all RIAA can do it block IP addresses of central servers via ISPs, use FTP and other 'clear' protocol file format systems with key word and file format filtering, and get ISPs to resell an industy standard regualted music and media service that cuts m$ out of the distribution platform and gives the ISPs some more revenue. It the music was a propreitory file format and downloaded to a secure client and media 'bin', then they could make it hard to distribute, but most people would pay the extra for a massive (aka audiogaxay range) range of high quality central rips, and distributed user hosted files. It might be say 2-15usd a month for unlimited media, that would be cool, id do it, you could also have an ad option on the video, that would cut the prices a bit.