Program Lets P2P Users Roam Free
Brad King,
Wired News,
May 06, 2003
The only surprise here is that this development - predicted last week in these pages - took so long to emerge. This article describes the development of applications that allow peer-to-peer file traders to disguise their online transactions. This makes it significantly more difficult for people looking at their online access to detect the exchange of material the music industry doesn't like. The article explains, "Free software called PeerGuardian creates a personal firewall that blocks the IP addresses of snoops. They can see the names of files being traded, but they can't download the file to tell whether it's a copyrighted file."
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