Comment Going after the chokepoints (Score 0) 522
For quite some time now, we've been hearing how decentralized P2P networks would be impossible to police.
Not true - once it becomes *possible* to get caught and face punishment for something, the amount of that activity will go down.
If Joe Sixpack suddenly has to worry about losing his Internet connection, or worse, he'll think twice about file swapping.
Anecdotally, I know of several parents where I work who have children that trade hundreds of thousands of songs and movies from their local machines. It won't take much for these parents to put the kibosh on that.
--Latro