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File-sharing Fracas part 22364368
crablin by Colin Roberts August 1st, 2005
Back in the innocent (kinda) early days of Napster, very few were even aware that peer-to-peer file-sharing was illegal, now it seems we can't go a day or more without someone's dog being prosecuted for opening up their owner's computer to the world replete with its entire Andy Williams back-catalogue.

The fact of the matter is, no matter what your take on the sharing of music across the internet, it's here to stay and by association, so are the lawsuits. So here's another twist for the BPI/RIAA to deal with...

Irish programmer Ian Clarke, 28, is currently perfecting a p2p network that's almost invisible and untrackable by the various recording industry governing bodies. Based around the idea of a trusting community, so called 'darknets' will enable a network that is invite-only, requiring people to be explicitly added to gain access to the resources of a file-sharing network, therefore camouflaging the users and the files shared from those who are most likely to press scary lawsuits.

DiScuss: Whichever side of the fence you sit, darknets make for interesting discussion - where do you stand? Find any great stuff via p2p of late?



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