A Moral Dilemma: Open letter to Gnutella community

[Ahri]

I guess I have to congratulate you on removing the propagation blocking, well done.

In an eirther post I siad, "Your filter has one major problem, and this is why you are getting no support from the Gnutella community." That is not entirely true. There are still at least two kinds of people who will still hate you for the filter.

1) People who think this technology will eventualy lead to total blockage of porn, music, programs and anything else copyrighted from being downloaded over Gnutella. I don't see how this is possible and no one has to worry about it. However, ignorance exists.

2) People who use Gnutella at the office or at school. This people have a valid complaint, but I do believe computer owners have the right to ban Gnutella on their computers if they want to. Offices and schools will probably use the filter to to completly block all downloads. I know schools like mine will do this for sure cause they're pricks. I can't even use FTP at school. They make it impossible to do anything other than HTTP, even though there are plenty of free computers and and we have nothing else to do. We aren't even allowed to chat or get e-mail on school computers anymore. Never the less, you can't argue with an office' or school's right to control their own computers. But people still aren't going to like it.

Whether or not this is enough for Gnutella companies to oppose this filter and not help, I guess we have to wait and see.