Tux of Borg Posted September 14, 2005 Posted September 14, 2005 link Subpoenas at 6Gbps? RIAA, MPAA join Internet2 By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Friday 9th September 2005 21:20 GMT The experimental high speed internet project Internet2 has two new members today: a pair of acronyms guaranteed to have researchers rifling anxiously through their "Stuff" directories. Both the Recording Industry Ass. of America, the RIAA, and Hollywood lobby group the Motion Picture Ass. of America, the MPAA, have signed up to the project to explore high-bandwidth DRM. Earlier this year, the RIAA sued 400 researchers on the network for copyright infringement. "We cannot let this high-speed network become a zone of lawlessness where the normal rules don't apply," RIAA president Cary Sherman said at the time. Now the RIAA has set all four trotters down inside the server room. "Both leading industry associations plan to collaborate with the Internet2 community to consider innovative content distribution and digital rights management technologies, and to study emerging trends on high-performance networks to enable future business models," the two groups said in a statement. "The MPAA views this partnership with Internet2 as an important opportunity for collaboration as we seek to link new delivery models with content protection," added MPAA prez Dan Glickman. Active since 1996, Internet2 connects over 200 US academic institutions. The Abilene portion of the network on the mainland United States is capable of transfers of 10Gbps. But a year ago, I2 moved 859GB of data across the network between Geneva, Switzerland and Pasadena, California in less than 17 minutes, a transfer rate of 6.63 Gbits/s.
Nanker Posted September 14, 2005 Posted September 14, 2005 TracyLee can only pray this comes to pass.
MadBuffaloDisease Posted September 14, 2005 Posted September 14, 2005 Recording Industry Ass. of America...and...the Motion Picture Ass. of America
jarthur31 Posted September 14, 2005 Posted September 14, 2005 The recording industry is already screwing the artists over. They only give them a pittance for their album sales and have always done so. But you don't hear them complaining about it! Greedy corporations just want to keep it coming and further kick the artist in the face. Gigabit Ethernet is here to stay folks and it's something we all need. These companies would be better served to find better ways to protect copyrighted content and disseminate their product much more quicker to keep piracy at bay.
Tux of Borg Posted September 14, 2005 Author Posted September 14, 2005 Having the RIAA join Internet2 is a bad idea. Look at their track record in regards to technology. They are always slow to adapt, and use legal tactics to slow up technology development until they can find a way to profit on it. It's no secret that they have a personal agenda to fulfill. Hell, why don't they let spammers get in on the project as well. I'm sure they have some good ideas that they would like to include. Commercialization of the internet is a bad thing. Period.
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