full-disclosure - DMCA letters (testing method)

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Date: Thu Nov 24 14:30:40 2005
From: kanarip at pczone-clan.nl (Jeroen van Meeuwen)
Subject: DMCA letters (testing method)

> 
> Not to defend the RIAA, but remember that with peer-2-peer filesharing
> you don't have to connect to the machine you want to download the
> files from.

The P2P concept implies you are connected to one another, regardless of the
initiator of the connection.

> You are both connected to a database, and the database
> can instruct the person with the file what machine to send it to.
> Otherwise no one behind a NAT would be able to "share" their files...
> 

NAT has nothing to do with whether the server or the client should initiate
the connection, that in fact is called active and passive.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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kanarip