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by CelticWhisper » Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:37 am
Something like this would be a perfect use for Freenet, if only it were faster.
Secure (end-to-end encryption, and GOOD, STRONG encryption, nothing half-reared like the native Windows crypto), and anonymous (relay/hop system, nobody knows where a file came from or where it's going), virtually impossible to track or monitor.
Of course, in the meantime, until Freenet's performance is optimized, there are always torrent trackers hosted in countries with sane, reasonable copyright laws. To be perfectly honest, even though I don't care for the three bands who wanted their material removed (can't remember the last time I heard a Creed song, and I don't think I've ever heard anything by Evanescence), I'm sorely tempted to anonymously (hahaha, not anymore) produce AMVs using all 3 bands' songs and upload them to as many trackers as I can find, just to make a statement. Go through plenty of proxies and such to ensure privacy and security, upload from a location other than my home, etc. You know, cover my hide.
People need to bear in mind and keep in perspective that "The Org," as you call it, is NOT the Internet's only repository for this sort of content, and it is perfectly feasible to host a ton of AMVs without any of them ever touching the Org. If this site is compromised by the litigious legions of the record industry, another, or many others, will crop up to take its place. Just like the hydra: sever one head, two more grow where the one once was.
Plus, with broadband access on the rise and prices falling, it's more and more feasible to run private servers with just one or two files from home systems using dynamic DNS and Apache, and having full control over one's content.
Thou shalt not take orders from strangers on the Internet.
Thou shalt use whatever resources thou deemest appropriate to make thy AMVs.
