Internet2 and the Content Community
Back in November 2004, representatives of the MPAA said that they were interested in working with Internet2 to find ways to manage illegal filetrading on that network.
A few days ago, Jon Ippolito posted a manifesto claiming that the MPAA/Internet2 collaboration “could give media conglomerates a chokehold on the 21st-century Internet.”
Then someone else responded, saying that Ippolito had all of his facts wrong. Routers remain dumb in Internet2. Sure, multicasting is possible, but that's also part of Internet1, and no digital rights management is built in.
So what is the nature of the collaboration between MPAA and Internet2? It's at least interesting to wonder.
PS: A helpful person writes to me to say that there's nothing glamorous about Internet2. It's just a collection of big pipes between particular destinations. Same address space, same DNS space, same protocols.
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