Music Industry Going With The Technological Solution
from the their-own-version-of-a-denial-of-service dept
The music industry is experimenting with a software solution to prevent file trading. The way it works is the software acts as someone looking for music. When it finds someone who has the song they're looking for it pretends to download it, but does so in a way that basically prevents anyone else from getting it. It basically keeps requesting the song and downloading it slowly - a poor man's denial of service. Not only are the songs no longer available to others to download - but it also slows the net connection of whoever is sharing the song down to a crawl. It's actually a fairly creative solution. I have to admit, I prefer the industry to do this instead of their ridiculous legal solutions. Anyway, I imagine it'll only be a few weeks before most of the music trading products figure out a way to block that. Seems like it wouldn't be that hard to create a workaround. Also, I wonder if this solution crosses any of the legal "hacking" boundaries. Since it is a denial of service they're preventing someone from using their internet connection...
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