File-sharing to bypass censorship

[scottxyz]

File-sharing to bypass censorship
By Tracey Logan - BBC

By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind.

This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, Cambridge University's Professor Ross Anderson.

In his vision, people around the world would post stories via anonymous P2P services like those used to swap songs.

They would cover issues currently ignored by the major news services, said Prof Anderson.

"Currently, only news that's reckoned to be of interest to Americans and Western Europeans will be syndicated because that's where the money is," he told the BBC World Service programme, Go Digital.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3611227.stm

[Robin Hood]

1. The Republican right wing media will denounce as fiction not fact.

because it didn't come from Pravda USA but from underground journalists. Just like they do to AL Jazeera, when CNN and FOX is just as bad, if not worst than AL Jazeera.

At least Jazeera serves it's population, CNN/FOX only serve their masters.