You're staring in on a good point. What happens when this backfires, and they mis-define (or badly define) P2P traffic? What if it is so broad that any traffic routed from one point to another is illegal? What if my dark fiber is against federal law? Who would fight for or against that? Would you shutdown your routers or switches that do P2P links? All this hit here in Illinois when the Super DCMA took effect, and it technically became illegal to use a router in your home (as the Illinois DCMA restricts the ability to hide the source or destination of any electronic communication, kinda like NAT). I certainly didn't pull NAT off my home or my office connections! I think no one has been called down (e.g., no one has challenged) on the law, but I could be arrested at any time for running a basic Netgear router on my broadband at home. Joe Johnson
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of David A. Ulevitch Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 7:32 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein)
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Sorry, was it possible to search for a file from > millions of
storage
nodes in IRC?
Yes, not that millions of storage nodes were connected...
Napster was more or less a glorified version of IRC w/DCC, that's why it was centralized for searching.
Anyways, we all know the biggest P2P bit movers are the routers...
-davidu
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