Crypto plan to anonymise P2P, thwart RIAA
Found on SecurityFocus on Saturday, 17 January 2004
Leading P2P activists have reacted to the prospect of the extension of a legal crackdown on file swappers in the UK with plans to build greater anonymity into their networks.
The developers of popular P2P app Blubster, which boasts an estimated four million users, plan to incorporate encryption technology and other techniques to give file-sharers greater anonymity. The scheme would mean that files were downloaded through a number of machines and only pieced together at a requesting computer.
"Each time they say that the sky is falling in. Now they want to blame file-sharing for all their problems."
"It's hurt their business - but nowhere near as much as what they claim," he added.
That's not very surprising. It was only a matter of time until P2P goes to anonymity; RIAA's actions only pushed it. Now they will have to re-organize their business models and look for new ways of distribution.