[IETF-IDRM] Fwd: Re: [IDRM] MPAA is going after gnutella

[Thomas Hardjono]

>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Judie Mulholland <judiemul@kc-inc.net>
>Subject: Re: [IDRM] MPAA is going after gnutella
>To: Mark Baugher <mbaugher@cisco.com>
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>On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mark Baugher wrote:
>
> > hi Judie,
> >
> > http://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/papers/demon.pdf
> > discusses this practice of "demonizing" piracy.  But how
> > does the MPAA know that Gnutella or Freenet users are
> > swapping copyright movies without snooping the contents
> > of files being exchanged?  I think the digital rights and
> > personal privacy issues are very closely related for
> > us in IDRM.
> >
>
>i totally agree which reminds me of a comment first made by kelsey and
>schneir. in a slightly different context, they write that trying to
>prevent copyright infringement of digital assets is beginning the resemble
>"the war on drugs."
>
>Kelsey, J. and B. Schneier "The Street Performer Protocol and Digital
>Copyrights," 4 First Monday, (June 7, 1999)
>
>URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_6/kelsey/index.html
>
>and thanks for the reference to the article on the demonization of
>piracy. i look forward to reading it.
>
>/j