By Jo Best
Published: Wednesday 19 November 2003
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Name
Steve Harris
Location
Oxford, England
Occupation
e-Science researcher
Comment
Now that peer-to-peer technologies are firmly established, I can't see a crackdown on pirating being sucessful. I advise the authors of the report read 'Secrets and Lies' by Bruce Schneier and re-draft. Information in the digital domain decoded by software is insecure: we learned that when the DVD encryption was defeated.
File sharing is driven by a demand that is not met and poor value in the services otherwise provided. It will take the distribution system 2 years to properly gear up to offer an effective digital distribution path: the availability of digital media at reasonable prices from easily accessible sources will be what takes the sting out of file sharing.
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