u will be murdered.

Will this be like that compression thingy you had? The one that any computer systems person I knew laughed at....

i dont even use p2p anymore, but i support anyone that uses it. dont like those music and movie industris making profits like crazy and still crying and taking people to court.

This is a philosophical question of sorts, to see what people think

Prices will raise if you do so. File sharing is the markets answere to unaturally high prices some compagnies are allowed to make because they have a monopoly. They have a monopoly by law. How stupid can we be?

Property rights is justifiable till a certain degree but not that far. If you absolutely need to control copy rights that much you should set a maximum price as well. Its mostly not the creator or performer who gets the jackpot anyway.

And you don't even make the distinction between breaking copy protection of software or media and filesharing itself. There's a difference, Great Compressor.

people will just swap their stuff on the schoolyard.like back in the good old days.

i do think there will allways be ways to get around it. Those 12 year old boys who have nothing better to do then hack will find a way!

viva la revolution etc!

> Einstein wrote:

> Ok so lets say Mr. Einstein has thought of a way to make it very difficult to keep sharing software. Lets say this method will reduce the actual number of people doing file sharing by anywhere from 40% to 80% from the current amount. Lets also say this makes some softwares pretty damned hard to take at all.

Who should Mr. Einstein talk to besides Microsoft and Apple? And how long before his name is (in)famous online?<

OK, so let's say that Einstein is behind the curve, let's say that all of the smart pirates now use torrents rather than p2p programmes.

How many years back in time should Einstein mail his idea before he finds a time period where it will actually matter; 5 or 10?

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Psychogenesis,
I was and am 2 busy to go in detail about why his approach *may work but pretty much you have a rulebook [ie non zero permanent storage] that allows you to decript everything.  So it is *possible to cut down the amount you transmit by having both ends having this same rule book.  To the "zero" bits claim that's just silly you need to preserve enough to decode and well... zero just aint enough.  I've been meaning to take a good look at his idea but never have either the motivation or time:D always one or the other.  Like now, kinda have the motivation but not the time.  And trust me when I have the time, I can bet you I won't have the motivation .

Question - I know how compression works Einstein (if i remember correctly) claimed that his algorithm could reduce the length of any stream by at least one bit. If this was true, you could apply the algorithm recursively, reducing by one bit at a time, until there's none left I'm not saying that such an algorithm exists at all, on the contrary, I see its mathematical impossibility.