I got a Cease & Desist Letter!

[Heidi 4]

Oh yes I expected this... the standard exuse...

They are checked by default right? And you know the most people install what is checked because they think they NEED these progs, and if you start now to tell me something that this is mentioned... you know exatly that the most people don

[boatwoman]

BearShare 3.0.0 has a Secure Channels feature that makes it impossible for companies to snoop on your shared files and cause exactly this kind of problem (among other things).

[Rockwell]

Did you get a Cease & Desist letter? Want to know what to do if you get one?
The EFF put together a new site "ChillingEffects.org" at
http://www.chillingeffects.org/

"The Chilling Effects project works by publishing cease-and-desist letters received by Internet
users and providing detailed information about the relevant legal rules. For example, if an
Internet user receives a letter demanding that she remove a synopsis of a "Star Trek" episode
from her website, members of the Chilling Effects team would post the letter online, embedding
it with links to information about basic copyright protections, the rules governing synopses, and
the fair use doctrine.

"EFF receives hundreds of requests for help and information from recipients of
cease-and-desist letters," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "This project should help
individuals gain access to greatly needed information as well as allow us to track who is sending
these letters and research larger trends."

(you should make this sticky or at least add the link to your sites)

[Crazy B]

Yes,

the most of the other developers don

[Ihkljhkjh]

to give it a name.

[blackopen]

Hey Vinnie, that sounds amazing! Where can I get more info about these Secure Channels?

[Supernatural Fan]

Great idea, but unfortunately the site doesn't exist. Maybe they were asked to 'cease and desist'.

[Over The Line!!]

Zeropaid has it too:

BearShare Blocks other Gnutella Clients
After months of badmouthing and disadvantaging other clients here is it finally. From Bearshare.Net: "You can choose to receive all query replies, downloads and uploads only from other BearShare clients". In clear works again: Bearshare is splitting the network! Remember the words from hackmaster Dr. Damn: Be nice and play fair. Uninstall BearShare.

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/06272002g.php

[Colby V]

It doesn't have to be. Since there are gnutella nodes located in the U.S. you can sue an entity that reversely engineered an authentication handshake in the U.S. although the entity might originally be located in Europe.

[Agent Krug]

In any event, reverse engineering or not, there are plenty of landmines and obfuscation techniques that will buy us many months of time before the security is compromised (even if it is illegally compromised).

There are encrypted portions of code which will be in the final release that aren't even going to get used for quite some time, we will be activating these additional security methods as the existing ones get broken.

True, even these additional hidden techniques will eventually be broken, but I have planned for that, instead of assuming that the protection methods are unstoppable.

Fortunately, with peer to peer software, frequent updates ensure that we will be able to combat the evils of corporate hacking as they appear.