A Moral Dilemma: Open letter to Gnutella community

[podonne]

silly person.

My point was never that your silly filter wouldn't work, frankly I dont care. I know you can filter a single machine. My point was that you cannot filter the network itself. Your original post stated that some government official was wanting to stop gnutella and they were calling you about it. My point was that in order to filter the network, you have to install filters on EVERY server(servant, servlet, whatever). Which a government agency cannot do.

On another of your silly points, It is unreasonable to expect that a government agency will pass legislation providing penalties for what ISPs allow through their networks. How could this possibly happen? How could an ISP know what a jpeg named 1.jpg was a picture of? How about 1.mpg? A text search you say? what if it blocked ANTI-CHILD-PORN.mpg.

In conclusion, let me congratulate you on developing a fine product. I'm sure it works beautifully and you must be very proud. I would recomend that every parent who doesn't want their children exposed to pornography go out and download it right away. But to think that a government agency would adopt your product to somehow shut down the network, well, that is silly.