Saturday, September 07, 2013

[hvumvees] P2P versus the NSA

The NSA's task of surveiling everyone on the internet was made way easier by there being only a few personal content services (Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft), all of which operate as a centralized service.

Decentralized peer-to-peer would have been more difficult to crack, not having a single point of failure.  However, peer-to-peer was effectively killed off by the chilling effect of music and movie industry lawsuits of copyright infringement.

Perhaps a political movement to convince people and companies not to protect intellectual property so strongly for a greater good of furthering peer to peer information sharing.

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