The RIAA and MPAA Target Day-Job Downloaders

BrianUofR points to this USA Today article, which says "the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are sending a six-page brochure this week to Fortune 1000 corporations with suggested policies -- including a sample memo to workers warning them against using company computers to download songs and movies."

One word...

[Anonymous Coward]

...Freenet [freenetproject.org].

It is finally starting to work well enough to be useful. It still needs people to create mp3-specific freesites to allow people to find mp3s easily, but this could be the motivation.

And don't forget to....

[Anonymous Coward]

...do your bit [freenetproject.org] to make sure that the RIAA will never stamp out P2P.

Many Use Packeteer's Packetshaper

[scubacuda]

A lot of companies are already blocking this type of thing with layer 4+ appliances, such as Packeteer [packeteer.com]'s PacketShaper [packeteer.com] (white paper here [packeteer.com])

How would you evade something like that?

Re:Many Use Packeteer's Packetshaper

[Anonymous Coward]

How would you evade something like that?

1. Encrypted tunnels

2. Protocols the fine folks at Packeteer haven't heard of yet

3. Make everything HTTP over port 80

Contents of the memo here

[worst_name_ever]

If you're having trouble finding the "suggested memo" on the RIAA's website, here's a mirror [mystarband.net].

Re:Freenet --

[HerbieStone]

This is really a non-issue. You can packkage your java-classes with runtime environment into a nice setup.exe and then download and install all of it in one go.