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AFRIKKAS
AFRIKKAS asked in Computers & InternetSecurity · 9 years ago

If P2P networks are the problem, then why dont they get rid of them?

P2P networks are used around the world to share illegal things....so.....Maybe there are different ways to share u know.

You guys, I also like the word FREE, but I think this is a good question. Just wondering u know

Update:

Thanks for the first 2 answers. Yeah..this is the way I think. Like, FREE is awesome, but I also think about the people who make those movies and softwares that are so great. They need to feed their families too.

Update 2:

Thanks for the first 2 answers. Yeah..this is the way I think. Like, FREE is awesome, but I also think about the people who make those movies and softwares that are so great. They need to feed their families too.

Update 3:

Thanks for the first 2 answers. Yeah..this is the way I think. Like, FREE is awesome, but I also think about the people who make those movies and softwares that are so great. They need to feed their families too.

Update 4:

Thanks for the first 2 answers. Yeah..this is the way I think. Like, FREE is awesome, but I also think about the people who make those movies and softwares that are so great. They need to feed their families too.

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  • Alexander W
    9 years ago
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    There is a legal ambiguity. Peer to Peer communications are not inherently bad (skype is a peer to peer technology, and Debian, a GNU/Linux distribution uses peer to peer to cheaply and legally distribute its instal images), so the technology itself can not be legislated against.

    Then there is the simple fact of lack of jurisdiction - If I am a US lawmaker, I have no ability to shut down a P2P system in Sweden (it has been tried).

    There is also the problem inherent to blacklists. It takes a lot of effort to block a site or protocol, but little for the users or administrators of the site or protocol to switch to something that is not blocked - the pirates can switch faster than authorities can block.

    there is the problem of decentralization. the RIAA could go after napster easily because they have central servers. Modern peer to peer has no such centralization.

    So you can't ban the technology because it has a significant legal use, and you can't go after a central hub, because there are none, you must go after the users - which is what they (copyright cartels) are currently doing.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Impossible to get rid of them. If one shuts down, another one opens. There are hundreds of torrent websites and it would take the government a life time to even try to shut them down. There is not really any other option to share illegal things without getting into trouble or getting caught.

  • Sir Jam
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    They are gradually being taken down. The legal problem is that the illegality is committed by users (thieves and criminals) and not by the site itself.

    If you create a game to sell - because it is the money from sales that provides the funds for you to create the next game - how would you feel if hordes of totally dishonest teens are simply stealing your game from the Internet instead of buying it

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