So now we have shitty programmers implimenting a incomplete spec of a shitty and unmanageable protocol, all the while saying it isn't a tool for piracy while they are downloading mp3, porn, and DVDs. Makes me proud to share the network with them. :-P
My favorite quote from this discussion has got to be in a message from William Crim:
There's a big Gnutella discussion going on at discuss.userland.com. And (unfortunately) under a seperate thread, a discussion on the ethical issues with Gnutella.
(Remember how they created DeCSS: They didn't crack the codes on DVDs, they reverse engineered a legal player platform.)
Oi. It had the usual lawyer I-want-the-technology-so-it-must-be-possible quote, too: "Gema, Germany's main music licensing group, said the verdict was a signal that Internet services need to introduce technologies to protect copyrights online." The sad part is a coherent conversation on this topic is virtually impossible... you can't communicate to a lawyer that something may well be impossible. After all, they can always produce developers claiming they can create something to satisfy the lawyers... and you end up with the DeCSS fiasco when your protection is bypassed.
In the Zeldman race, Privacy Digest grabbed the only decent icon IMHO: 
Nice grab.
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