Lasse Penttinen
7 Jul 2003 12:08
RIAA stands for the Recording Industry Association of America. Freenet is a fairly new peer-to-peer file sharing network and client software, which promises high level of encryption, privacy and anonymity.
News.com has posted an interesting article where representatives of these two opposite parties argument their viewpoints in the hot P2P legal issues.
It might even work. Freenet may not be one of the most popular file-sharing networks right now, but its creators have carefully designed it to be as difficult as possible to censor or monitor. That has implications beyond copyright law. If successful, Freenet could make laws against publishing material such as libelous statements, trade secrets or military intelligence either irrelevant or, at least, unenforceable.