How long this time? (Score 1)

Hmmm so you get points for sending files to your friends and vice-versa. I wonder how long this will take until it's compromised?

Ex1: Let's say I get this "Trusted" system goin' and start gettting these little files on my computer. Theoretically, if I knew the addresses of the hosts that were participating in this project and shared all my files with them, and vice-versa in a never-ending cycle, so I'm downloading these files from them and them from me, we could rack up an infinite number of points as the files come out. So thereby getting freebies for transferring bogus info files.

Ex2: What about compromising the content of the content protected files? As if there would be no possible way of doing that. Once these files are compromised, what makes the industry think that they won't be shared afterwards. I'd be surprised if their system lasts a year without anyone finding a workaround or a security hole in their processes.

Ex3: Worse case scenario, how long till someone compromises the content distribution server to infect the files with some type of virus? I mean that now that they centralized the distribution system, what makes you think that someone won't hack the server in order to infect files so that any other computer who participates in this new system won't get attacked and then target others. Buyer beware.

I hope that the consortium has taken all this into consideration before pulling on the curtain for their grand overture. I sense a phantom lurking in the shadows.

Crapflinger