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SCALE 8x: Ten million and one penguins

Posted Mar 11, 2010 21:55 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
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What exactly is this RIAA take-down you mention? I have not heard of the RIAA successfully getting any given protocol banished from the Internets.

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SCALE 8x: Ten million and one penguins

Posted Mar 11, 2010 22:02 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> What exactly is this RIAA take-down you mention?

Well, I am just reporting on what Ron said, but I presume he is referring to the RIAA takedown of eDonkey.

jake

SCALE 8x: Ten million and one penguins

Posted Mar 20, 2010 3:10 UTC (Sat) by rminnich (guest, #64556) [Link]

I probably was not specific enough. The RIAA shut down a visible file
sharing network that used these protocols, nice writeup here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDonkey2000

I just find it very amusing that lawyers feel that shutting these guys did
anything but push it all underground. From what I am told, the content they
wanted to "protect" is all out there and all available. So what, precisely,
did they accomplish?

hence my joke that if p2p is outlawed, only outlaws will have p2p.

And they
do ;-)