thebighack.org — The Digital Douwd has challenged the media giants by releasing its Owner-Free Filing System. The new system is purported to be immune from the consumer lawsuits that have plagued previous P2P systems. While the creators do not contend the fact that copyright laws exist, they do maintain that OFF System peers don't actually break any of those laws.
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carnage1337Aug 14, 2006Submitter
Ah but it would be fairly trivial to show that all the blocks you are distributing are acctually part of something that you yourself own copyrights to, or is public domain. As new meanings can be assigned to blocks at any time without having to change the blocks themselves.
logicalnoiseAug 15, 2006
people aren't fighting to not pay for copyrighted meterials. They are fighting to give the control back to the artists and the people. Organizations like the RIAA and MPAA have been actively locking down copyright for years so only they can use it(75-100 years afte rthe artists death for public domain is inexcusable).
waterdragonAug 15, 2006
@ blindirishman"If the government sues/arrests you based on intent. Every human ever alive would be guilty. If that ever happens, we are in big trouble."It IS happening, and we ARE in big trouble!
mpegAug 15, 2006
oh you would only need 2^1048576 bits to store all 128KB combinations
samnmaxAug 15, 2006
I'm having trouble figuring out what they are doing, and I certainly think their logic that it is 'lawsuit proof' is flawed. It is not 'copy-less'. You are copying files that have just been encoded in some way, likely a poorly thought out form of encryption. It appears they are just 'XOR' multiple files. Whether you need multiple files to decode something doesn't matter, copyright has still been broken.This is clearly garbage. If you want something possibly useful for legal protection, models such as freenet and Tor make sense, however they are slow. Perhaps if people were forced to share their bandwidth, ala bittorrent, these methods could work better.
xgravixAug 15, 2006
That is a very ineffective way to destroy the data on a hard disk. You need to overwrite the data using random data with the disk's own write mechanism several times (preferably 8 or more), or use a VERY large magnet. Think hundreds of Tesla (larger than an MRI machine). Mutiliation with a hammer and a rinky dink 0.05 Tesla magnet does not stop dedicated forensic recovery experts.
smartitguyAug 15, 2006
Neither the RIAA/MPAA, or it's lawyers can or will ever be able compete against the wits and will of mathematicians, physicysts, and programmers. They awoke a sleeping dragon, and can do nothing but watch while their monopolistic empire crumbles beneath their feet.They (RIAA/MPAA) will cry, but the artists they 'control' and rip off will eventually be forever greatful for their demise.The MPAA/RIAA brought it on themselves, so now they will die!What can they do? Try and make the internet as a whole illegal?
nerysAug 16, 2006
Your thinking is a little flawed. you see posting direction on how to build a gun is not illegal. Posting direction on how to build a patented gun IS illegal is it not ?remember this is intellectual property law not physical property law. its not the ACTION so much as the CONTENT of the action.by creating a set of instruction for how to make a "song" you have essentially and legally "copied" that song and may not have the right to do so.I hope this works but the concept is fundimentally flawed.
oliversechs2Aug 19, 2006
“I poisoned P2P networks for the RIAA”<a class="user" href="http://exocache.com/riaa.php">http://exocache.com/riaa.php</a>