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LeeWare · #61 (**permalink**) February 11th, 2004

Topbanana:

I'm glad that you understand this. I believe that many others do as well. It is unfortuntate that some people believe incorrectly of course, that I am some how anti-P2P because I am anti-piracy. This usually reflects the ignorance of the person attempting to blast me for my efforts.

There are two ways to approach this situation one is within the system and the other is outside of the system.

If you work within the system you can accomplish a lot without the legal hassle. Many of the problems facing the P2P community and ISPs can be resolved in simple ways. In fact the solution is in place now and has been for many years but as usual the problem is the people. They won't follow the rules when given the opportunity to do so but complain when forced to comply either through court action or greater ISP restrictions.

They create the very situation they want to avoid which is more monitoring, more restrictions etc.

Some people have difficulty understanding this concept. You can only patch a problem for so long at some point you have go to the root of the problem thus the lawsuits against individual users.

The ISP should NOT be responsible for monitoring peoples activities. The P2P providers should not be in the business of restricting the functionality of P2P applications. The responsibility rests solely with the end users.

People totally overlook the fact that ANYONE can become a member of ANY P2P community so you never know who you are getting your files from and who is getting files from you.

Therefore, technologies the claim to protect your identity are all bogus because they give people a false sense of security because they are constructed to address one of the many ways piracy investigations can be conducted. But again, people always over look the obvious.

Anyone could build a super secure P2P application. All that work goes to waste the moment any / everyone can use it.

I wish that those that complain the loudest could understand this.

But that remains my hope.