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not that fast as I2

The experimental high speed internet project Internet2 has two new members today: a pair of acronyms guaranteed to have researchers rifling anxiously through their "Stuff" directories. Both the Recording Industry Ass. of America, the RIAA, and Hollywood lobby group the Motion Picture Ass. of America, the MPAA, have signed up to the project to explore high-bandwidth DRM.

Earlier this year, the RIAA sued 400 researchers on the network for copyright infringement. "We cannot let this high-speed network become a zone of lawlessness where the normal rules don't apply," RIAA president Cary Sherman said at the time.

Now the RIAA has set all four trotters down inside the server room.

"Both leading industry associations plan to collaborate with the Internet2 community to consider innovative content distribution and digital rights management technologies, and to study emerging trends on high-performance networks to enable future business models," the two groups said in a statement.

"The MPAA views this partnership with Internet2 as an important opportunity for collaboration as we seek to link new delivery models with content protection," added MPAA prez Dan Glickman.

Active since the 1996, Internet2 connects over 200 US academic institutions. The Abilene portion of the network on the mainland United States is capable of transfers of 10Gbps. But a year ago, I2 moved 859GB of data across the network between Geneva, Switzerland and Pasadena, California in less than 17 minutes, a transfer rate of 6.63 Gbits/s.


Well, maybe I'm just being pessimistic about thoughts that there may be some type of auto check against suspicous amounts of data used in high
amounts of filesharing..... , or maybe there wont be any increased drm in the next internet

6.63 gbps INTERNET CONNECTION???!!!???

That easily blows away my home network

Praxis wrote:6.63 gbps INTERNET CONNECTION???!!!???

That easily blows away my home network

Not to mention not even common gigabit Ethernet supports it.

Piff, there is an even more powerful network already impleneted between three science labs in American, Europe and South America which can exchange data at over 1TbPS. It was designed to help proccess data in real time that was being taken by the various labs instruments which appently have some hefty data sizes.

But 6.63GB I'll take, just think pirated movies instantly! Oh wait... they did think that... But maybe this will that we can someday watch movies the same day they are released in theaters for much the same prices(Except for food and drink of course) but wait no... the RIAA and CO know the Internet is e3vil! and must be doing their best to protect us from its ease of use .

Mr Bean wrote: the RIAA and CO know the Internet is e3vil! and must be doing their best to protect us from its ease of use .

oh yeah, the RIAA 'protecting consumers' lol
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The only positive aspect is that any organisation would find it hard to battle against the p2p people. Just how would they? They gonna scan every single packet of information between every computer ?

I'm sure they'd like to do that, have a little black box on everyones computer, analysing every keystroke, every website visited.

Damn those e3vil control freaks, they'll self-distruct upon themselves sooner or later anyway

BloodAngel wrote:

Praxis wrote:6.63 gbps INTERNET CONNECTION???!!!???

That easily blows away my home network

Not to mention not even common gigabit Ethernet supports it.

Forget home network connection, that easily outstrips your hard drive speed.

The RIAA are tossfucks.

On the technology side of things... Wow. That sort of speed is ridiculous (in a good way ), the advances that could be made in communications would be immense... Streaming HDTV.... Can't wait till it actually becomes a mainstream consumer item.