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Napster clone may set up shop offshore
(old news - 10:43AM Tuesday Mar 06 2001)
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If you follow the news closely, you remember "Sealand", a so-called "data haven" platform off the coast of Britain. Well, a 21-year-old Canadian Web entrepreneur is planning to circumvent the imminent demise of Napster Inc.'s controversial Internet song-trading system by setting up a clone of the service offshore.
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Karl Bode
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If I remember....

I know that Sealand is it's own country, with it's own air defense cannons even. But the pipe that FEEDS Sealand sits on the shores of England. If I remember, I read that they could simply cut this line......
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statemachine
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Re: If I remember....

It will eventually not work. The RIAA and others like it are too powerful. If they can't stop it at the source, they'll cut it off at the upstream provider. And if that doesn't apply, they'll terminate all peering arrangements with Sealand. Somebody is carrying the data packets on its networks, and those people will be the ones catching hell.

dubfanatic

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Re: If I remember....

If that is true, they could shut down every single backbone on the Net.

Copzilla$
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Re: If I remember....

No, just the ones that were the main upstreams for the copyright violators. If a company in the US makes money by facilitating US copyright laws being broken overseas, then you can believe that the RIAA would probably have a good civil case against that company. Dfountain is just telling it like it is.
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Griz5

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Seems my idea was stolen...LOL

»What Napster needs to do...

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korym
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Not if they use a satellite upstream provider. Granted there are latency issues with satellite access, but for continuous data streams, this would probably work very well. Then, the RIAA would have to shoot down the satellite!

statemachine
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Re: If I remember....

said by korym:
Not if they use a satellite upstream provider. Granted there are latency issues with satellite access, but for continuous data streams, this would probably work very well. Then, the RIAA would have to shoot down the satellite!
No, they would just shut down that company that controls the satellite.
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