Posted by Don M. on 10/03/05 03:57

"fred-bloggs" <fred-bloggs@hahahotmail.com> wrote in message
news:43404eb2$0$78704$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net...
>
> Just read this (mind the wrap)
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-piracytwo2oct02,1,6430710.story?
> coll=la-headlines-business
> <quote>
> Overpeer takes advantage of the Internet's inability to tell who's at the
> controls of any computer online. The software lets a single computer
> pretend to be more than 10,000 people, none of which look any different to
> the untrained eye from real users on a peer-to-peer network.
> <unquote>
>
> So, we have several thousand faking secondaries sitting on the same IP?
>
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Find a few artists whose efforts to promote their music via p2p is being impeded by fakers
and maybe the EFF will come up with some action against Overpeer. I can't imagine the
ACLU would want to stay out since this may be a case of free speech violation.


Don

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