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October 13, 2003

Clay on Future Sharing

Clay is at it again. This time his sterling essay is on how the RIAA is inadvertently shaping our network. A sample:

Though the press is calling such systems "darknets" and intimating that they are the work of some sort of internet underground, those two requirements -- controlled membership and encrypted file transfer -- actually describe business needs better than consumer needs.

Posted by D. Weinberger at October 13, 2003 10:52 AM

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