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Re: [dvd-discuss] Hang the RIAA in their own noose.



On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Lars Gaarden wrote:

>
>Let me put on my devil's advocate hat for a moment..
>
>They are talking about preventing copyright infringement in the
>context of wire or electronic communication. That is, jamming
>Napster or perhaps exploit a weakness in the election protocol
>for supernodes in the Kazaa network in order to force the
>supernodes to be run on RIAA-controlled machines.
>
>We're talking interference, jamming, chaffing. Not breaking and
>entering into my and your computer.

They call that DoS, make more than one machine interfere, they call it
DDoS, and they jail individuals for it.

>

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