User:Skreutzer

Have a look at my general profile. In terms of P2P context, I'm a software developer and support the Free Software movement. At the advent of digital technology and networks, the print-era copyright regulations should never have been applied to software without significant reformation, not to mention the introduction of draconian persecution under criminal law, perpetual term extension or the whole DRM nonsense. The pain and harm in the field of software is of such intensity that the community is able to maintain under enormous effort an alternative to proprietary software that unethically imposes artificial technical, legal and social restrictions. For other works that aren't software, less pain is felt (while ignoring the harm), so there's less interest in seriously doing something about it, resulting in a vague, confused notion of “openness” without clear vision of how a decent, adequate digital future ought to look like. There are several good initiatives including peer-to-peer filesharing and the fundamental principles of the Internet like decentralization, which are under amounting attack by political and business demands for centralized control, while the general public remains largely ignorant of such “mere technicalities”.

I have no idea what “peer-to-peer” might mean in the physical space, that’s an entirely different story. Locally, there aren’t a lot of peers anyway except neighbors, are there?