As if the net weren’t slow enough, now we’ll have enormous files being downloaded multiple times as users search for what they want. At least until the inevitable work-a-round a day or so later.
Tom’s Hardware Guide – To Macrovision, the P2P battle is one big chess match, where one side tries to quietly corner the other. Some content providers try to keep their protection measures secret – to fool users into the belief that no content protection actions are taken. However some situations are calling for aggressive protection.
The government should adopt this brilliant approach. To stop car thieves they should place thousands of fake cars throughout our cites. The government should start printing counterfeit money to cut down on bank robberies. And of course “dolls” from http://www.realdoll.com should be bought and distrusted to parks, to cut down on real rapes.
Won’t stop anyone.
This will just make file “preview & review” software necessary which shouldn’t be difficult to add to existing P2P software if it isn’t already a part of the program. In addition, this is probably going to just make it more difficult for the MPAA & RIAA to determine which people to target for violations. In fact, I would recommend that everyone keep a couple of these “bad” files on their share drives and then if they get sued, they could just argue that they aren’t sharing “valid” files.