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4152 No. 4152
Just a thought for the ages. Please, modify & spread your designs!

Send them to the pirate bay!
>> No. 4153
Okay, I said it sounded stupid, but the idea seems theoretically solid. Granted, you're talking about powerful radio transmitters and equally powerful (if compact) receiving devices. A big issue might be radio interference, or simply governmental hatred; these things wouldn't be hard to accidentally shoot down, or not so accidentally if they drift into no-fly zones.

But it seems a little pointless. Torrents exist in the ether. The servers just make it easy for everyone to find; this functionality has existed in P2P networks for years, and I believe is already ported over in part, if you use utorrent. Protecting the pirate bay servers themselves may eventually become unnecessary, as the site itself will be outdated.

Moreover, the issue of piracy itself seems to reflect a need in the customer base, rather than an issue of free speech. That a political party might be founded on the idea of piracy is an interesting notion, but perhaps not one that can exit with current business interests worldwide.
>> No. 4158
>>4153
>simply governmental hatred; these things wouldn't be hard to accidentally shoot down, or not so accidentally if they drift into no-fly zones.

Laws do nothing if they're not enforced. Whatever supposedly protects it sound like exactly the kind of thing governments ignore whenever it's convenient. No one they care about will complain. If they don't shoot it down, it'll probably be more a matter of practicality than legality.
>> No. 4159
What are the odds this is just a distraction for their real solution, which is a lot more boring and mundane?

>>4153
>>Moreover, the issue of piracy itself seems to reflect a need in the customer base, rather than an issue of free speech. That a political party might be founded on the idea of piracy is an interesting notion, but perhaps not one that can exist with current business interests worldwide.

This only has the slightest chance of happening if the fundamentals of consumption imploded.
>> No. 4160
>>4158
It's kind of like international waters; there aren't technically any laws governing low orbit, just a lot of traffic. Hell, they go high enough and they might have to contend with space junk bringing them down. Still, sometimes laws are rather conveniently ignored.

>>4159
There has been some talk of the need to enact change laws regarding media consumption and reuse. People don't want to be illegal, but they do want their access to media, and they want it within their means. The various recording industry interests have not recorded a marked decrease due to piracy, and many feel that if they could pay for media they like, they would.

You're probably right about the mundane solution though. I thought I heard rumors of a "wandering DNS server" project when all this SOPA stuff started up, but I don't know how theoretically feasible it is.


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