P2P In 15 Lines of Code
Found on Slashdot on Wednesday, 15 December 2004
Edward Felten of the very fine Freedom to Tinker has written a 15 line P2P program in Python. From the post on Freedom to Tinker, "I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so attempts to ban their creation would be fruitless." Matthew Scala, a reader of Freedom to Tinker, has responded with the 9 line MoleSter, written in Perl.
How disastrous! Now the movie/music industry will realize who is their true enemy: not those P2P application and not their users. This evil thing called programming makes copyright violation possible. It created P2P, DeCSS, ISO tools and tons of audio rippers. The industry simply has to go after the developers. And to be total honest: I wouldn't be surprised at all if the RIAA/MPAA would do exactly that.