Jun

3

It has come to this.  Revision3, a new media company with it’s own shows and distributes them using new technology (P2P) is attacked by the “old media”.  Revision3 has its own shows, which I doubt the “old media” sees any “action” (i.e. money) from.  They use P2P technology to distribute their shows.  They made a technical mistake in that the way they used P2P also allowed non-Revision3 employees to “seed” P2P network with illegal files.  Once they found their mistake they, like good net citizens, locked it down.  “Old media”’s response?  DoS attack a legal ligitimate company.

If you or I were to DoS attack a company we would have the feds knocking at our door and probably be arrested.  MediaDefender (who’s media are they defending?) does it. . .  no big deal.  The way I see it since the “old media” saw Revision3 was making money on it’s shows without the “old media” getting it’s cut of the action, they decided to take them down.  Kinda like the guy who comes by your store and insists that you pay “insurance” for nothing “unfortunate” happening to your store.  Funny thing is, THAT is illegal.  However, RIAA or MPAA taking you out since they aren’t getting their cut of your “media”, that’s all well and good.

I’ve seen it pointed out that Revision3 was not “innocent” since they had a technical flaw in their system that allowed illegal seeding.  Isn’t that kind of saying “well, since you left your car door unlocked it’s partially your fault your car was stolen.”  Even if I make the mistake of leaving my car door unlocked, which IS stupid, it’s not less of a crime to steal my car.  I know techheads aren’t really into Christian philosophy but hey “he who has not sined cast the first stone”.  Or in this case “he who has not made a technical mistake defend MediaDefender’s DoS attack.”

P2P is great technology that has the potential to revolutionize data sharing on the intenet in the same scope that the “Web” revolutionized the use of the internet.  However, much like the horse buggy makers weren’t happy with the invention of the automobile, “old media” is not happy about P2P potential.  Unlike the invention of the automobile, world governments are slowly making use of the new technology illegal and empowering the modern equivilant of the buggy makers to be above the law.  Fighting this new technology only sets our modern advancement back.  But hey…..a lot of people want to put us back in the dark ages right now.


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