[UA] Bizarre text distribution model

[jecouto at tiscali.es]

We all know that "intellectual property piracy" is bad, inmoral, a bad thing,
a threat to a lot of industries...

... but its not going to go away. Thats why experiments like what Greg Stolze
is thinking (and I point you again to Bruce Schneier papers, where a possible
protocol for that kind of schema is explained in more detail) have to be
done. 

Because on one hand, no force on Earth is going to make people NOT share
files, scan books, whatever, no matter how inmoral is it, and the solutions
proposed by the "industries" (the middlemen) are just awful. Right now the
Spanish version of the RIIA is lobbying for a tax on all hard disk drives,
to be given to them. It doesnt matter if you never shared copyrighted material,
if they dont own the rights to it, if you are buying 20 disk to build your
own cluster supercomputer with your own data... they want money just because
it is possible to use that to hold something they have the copyrights.

So I think either creators & consumers cut the middlemen with schemes like
this one or some rought times are ahead.

Jesús Couto F. 

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