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There’s no real innovation in telecom

October 25, 2007

Telecom has, generally speaking, become a zero-sum game. In fact it probably always was, despite numerous attempts by governments at deregulation. The fact of the matter is that even today, full-duplex voice conversations between two parties is almost entirely controlled by a cabal of international telecom companies, both wireless and wireline, who manipulate [...]

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Copy Protection is the Enemy of Content Distribution

May 24, 2007

The MPAA has, believe it or not, heard you. You want to copy the material you buy, for use in other devices, etc. You want to, as someone once said, be able to “Rip. Remix. Burn.” your media. And why not? You paid for it. MPAA Boss Dan [...]

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SBC Won’t Name Names in File-Sharing Cases

September 17, 2003

*As proof that market dynamics can influence lawmaking, SBC has fallen into step with Verizon in putting up roadblocks to stop the RIAA’s maniacal tirade against P2P. The quote that says it all? * “We are going to challenge every single one of these that they file until we are told that our position is [...]

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Terrorism, or, You Have No Rights

March 20, 2003

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From: Jeff Bone Date: Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:53:48 AM US/Pacific To: fork [at] xent [dot] com Subject: [SPORK] X == Terrorism, or, You Have No Rights
(a) “Drugs fund terrorism” [1] (b) “If you fund terrorism, you are a terrorist” [2] (c) “If we even SUSPECT you are a terrorist, the [...]

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E-Mule Project…

January 14, 2003

http://www.emule-project.net/
This is likely the next wave of file sharing. What’s wrong with GNUtella, you ask? Well, unlike Napster, GNUtella clients install with file sharing turned OFF by default. As a result, the GNUtella network is primarily composed of people who “leech” — that is, downloading without sharing.
There’s very good reason [...]

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Re: BitTorrent

December 9, 2002

BitTorrent:
I checked it out. It has brutal memory leaks under OSX, sucks up tons of horsepower, and is generally badly implemented. However, I get the concept. GNUtella does do this already, although I presume less efficiently.
HTTP would not have gone anywhere as a protocol were it not for Search Engines, [...]

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Salon.com on Gnutella

July 10, 2002

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Lucas Gonze
> Date: Tue Jul 09, 2002 08:54:08 PM US/Pacific
> To: “Joseph S. Barrera III”
> Subject: Re: Reuters.com – Gnutella Developer Gene Kan, 25,
> Commits Suicide – July 09, 2002
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> Gene was a dark guy. Also quiet and smart. I liked him.
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> Funny the way this [...]

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Stamp Out HTTP

March 12, 2002

Despite the signatories to Don Box’s paycheck he is correct in assessing that HTTP has reached the end of its usefulness as a protocol for delivering applications. Even Tim Berners-Lee thinks so. Of course, HTTP will always be with us for the simple accessing and retrieval of information, which is the only [...]

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P2P

February 15, 2002

http://www.bizreport.com/print.php?art_id)76
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Web Services + P2P = Efficiency: Gartner  
If applied in the corporate world, technology made famous by music file-sharing service Napster could help streamline the flow of data within and outside of enterprises, and cut costs, according to new report by Gartner Inc.
The research firm says it has [...]

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