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To: gzubeck who wrote (208020)	8/9/2006 11:49:04 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 275872

George: If and when the code is as widely distributed as DeCSS, RIAA may try to stop it, but it would be a lost cause. And most pirates are in third world countries where the laws are quite fluid. He who has money makes the rules. And how do you stop 100,000 widely dispersed people? Answer is, you don't. As long as the profits from pirating are much higher than the costs and the barriers against it are so low, it will happen. The most profitable piracy is pay $1 for a download. There is no cost but a fat wide ISP pipe and 155Mbps would allow one copy per 10 minutes to transmit and far less with something like bittorrent where peers help distribute what already got through. Where the seeder to peer ratio is above 1, the internet actually amplifies the pipe's BW to many times what it could do on its own. So one pipe costing around a few thousand a month can distribute 40K copies per month directly and with a bittorrent like client could easily distribute 1 million copies a month yielding mostly pure profit. And any server getting the whole thing can redistribute. So if any server is taken down, another could be started somewhere else. As we have seen true peer to peer networks can be impossible to stop. Pete