Overpeer - Over

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:07 am **Post subject:** Overpeer - Over

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4520884.stm

Some good news for p2p (for a change) :beerchug:

Let's hope the rest of them drop soon.

On a (semi) related note.

Does the amount of loss from casual piracy, exceed the amount spend on idiotic protection schemes designed to hurt the paying customer?

Sony are the most high profile company for whom the answer to that question must now be no surely, beside the cost of the DRM software, the cost in lost revenue now must surely outweigh the amount lost to casual piracy (the only people protection actually stops).

The heavy pirates, the far east counterfeiters couldn't give a toss about protection as it doesn't seem to slow them at all.

George Tatum · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:10 am **Post subject:**

Great news

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:30 am **Post subject:**

Ding-Dong! The witch is dead! :bliss:

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:32 am **Post subject:**

DJBenz wrote:

Ding-Dong! The witch is dead! :bliss:

One of of the witches, Bay TSP and the like are still very much alive

goober · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:04 pm **Post subject:**

Quote:

...Loudeye said the ratings systems that many peer-to-peer networks had introduced to give users information about authentic and fake files had reduced Overpeer's effectiveness.

HAHA. Very true. :lol:

I can't believe the idiots thought 'flooding' was a viable anti-p2p solution.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:13 pm **Post subject:**

well for ed2k it never really worked for large communities since the links come from boards.

As for BayTSP, i hope they all not only go bust but loose some limbs! :googley:

Union.Simon.616 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:29 pm **Post subject:**

It's funny that somebody thought this would actually work.

Just shows you how out of touch with the reality of p2p those people really are. :roll:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:19 pm **Post subject:**

In related news, first court case of RIAA vs person to go to the record industry:
http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/comments.p ... wnews=3917

goober · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:18 pm **Post subject:**

In that related article about the success of the RIAA in their first anti-p2p lawsuit, I'm curious to know how they derive the $750/song penalty? Probably through some fat sweaty overpaid lawyer just salivating to cash-out on the suit sits there in his office greedily rubbing his hands together dreaming up some arbitrary figure as a penalty for copyright infringement.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:41 pm **Post subject:**

DMCA has statutory rights establishment in it, there'll be some official calculation of how its worked out.

Countries like the uk don't have statutory rights though as far as i can figure.

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