"If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!"

Roy M. Silvernail roy at rant-central.com
Fri Oct 24 08:23:31 PDT 2003


Steve Schear writes:
> Why not have each individual's PC which offered to lend do the 
> accounting.  This means their PC must be on-line whenever someone who 
> didn't pay wants to listen, limiting the number of copies available, but it 
> could be fully decentralized.

You'd have to piggyback this on some P2P app.  Otherwise, the lender
would have to run an accessable server.  That can be a trick if you're
behind a NAT or your ISP takes exception to unsolicited incoming packets.
Also, how do you handle check-in, or more importantly, lack of check-in?
Timeout?  Can you queue checkout requests?

Interesting idea, but it sounds kind of cumbersome to roll out.
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