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   mhh5, 13 Nov 2000 @ 6:17pm

   
   

   dumb dee-dumb dumb

   It should be relatively easy to filter out "spoofs" that warn you not to pirate music. How do they get the spoofs into the network anyway? Someone's going to recognize "bots" flooding Napster with spoofs and block them. This is all stupid, and questionably legal. I can't believe they got VC funding....

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   MrHappy, 14 Nov 2000 @ 9:29am

   
   

   Signature hash maybe?

   So they flood with the name of my favourite song. Oh no! What will I do?
   
   Scour and Freenet already make provisions for including MD5 hashes of content - signatures unique (FAIAP) to the files they represent. Switch file searching from keyword to hash-based and feasability of flooding goes away.
   
   Couple keyword and hash-based searching to community consensus and you flush their VC funding down the toilet with an audible (44 Khs, 128-bit) "whoosh!"
   
   'scuse me, I'm off to put them on my FuckedCompany list now....

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   dan'l, 14 Nov 2000 @ 11:23am

   
   

   u gotta be kidding

   this should be on satirewire.com - shouldn't it?

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