Sought for MGM v. Grokster: Non-Infringing P2P Use 377
linuxizer writes "Since my last Slashdot entry, I've been discussing various copyright issues with the ever-interesting Peter Fader. Out of those conversations came sniu.info, an attempt to document the various forms of substantial, non-infringing use over peer-to-peer networks before MGM v Grokster goes to the Supreme Court. So far I have about 50 entries, but more suggestions would be much appreciated.
Some fellow /. readers might also be interested in my fairly regular posts on copyright/IP issues, which are mostly links to interesting articles with occasional commentary."
BT has a valid use, for example. (Score:5, Interesting)
etree? (Score:3, Interesting)
Getting around Censorship (Score:5, Interesting)
Uses ? (Score:4, Interesting)
FreeAudio.org .... (Score:5, Interesting)
Ask this: Why does it exist? (Score:3, Interesting)
A better case, perhaps, could be made for bittorent.
BBC (Score:5, Interesting)
Ringtone sharing (Score:3, Interesting)
One of the legal uses of P2P networking listed is ringtone sharing, but ringtones are the same as any other form of music: the owner of the copyright dictates whether anyone is allowed to copy them or not. This means that ringtones based on chart music or TV theme tunes, for example, cannot legally be copied.
It's not uncommon these days for a record company to make more money from a ringtone of a single than the actual CD sales, so I wouldn't be surprised if they got upset about them being shared freely.
Free music you can copy [bytenoise.co.uk]
Mod me -1: Religious Nut, but... (Score:5, Interesting)
A Bit Offtopic: But Slashdot provided much of the info required for designing and building the recording device [esims.org] and to my knowledge there is none like it elsewhere.
3 uses, personal expirence. (Score:3, Interesting)
2 - time-shifting of broadcast TV shows that i have a legal right to record, but missed due to any number of reasons.
3 - Sharing your own produced content ( such as music ) in order to broaden your listener base without the cost of 'main stream' advertising.
new protocol for heavily loaded websites? (Score:3, Interesting)
<img src="bittorrent://http://mywebsite/myimage.torren
Just a thought.
Re:Getting around Censorship (Score:3, Interesting)
If the government detects that you are uploading or downloading part of a forbidden document, you are screwed. BitTorrent does not protect you against this.
You might be thinking about Freenet.
Re:BT has a valid use, for example. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:LegalTorrents.com (Score:3, Interesting)
RIAA is not filing legal charges against bittorrent as a program. Perhaps they would like to shut down the sourceforge site, but it is much easier for them to attack the torrent providers.One of the qualities of bittorrent is that it is fairly visible whether a torrent provider links illegal stuff, and therefore it is easy for RIAA to track down the right people.
This is good news for the open source community, because in a year or two there will be no more sites like supernova.org, because the RIAA have sued the illegal trorrent providers into hell, and the open source community will still be able to use bittorrent to provide download of open source software. Of course the closing down of illegal bittorrent sites will not be the end of P2P, but it will render todays story meaningless. Whats the point listing up legal use of P2P, when bittorrent provides a transparent effective technology?
Had the same idea, think it makes a lot of sense (Score:3, Interesting)
For a server that got slammed with something like a slashdotting, even just that short time sharing would take a huge load off the server.
It seems like this is a case where you could build a custom Apache module to automatically enable this feature for all content above a certain size, and in conjuction add support in Mozilla and derived programs.