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.
“But if something happens in Peru that’s of interest to viewers in China and Japan, it won’t get anything like the priority for syndication.
“If you can break the grip of the news syndication services and allow the news collector to talk to the radio station or local newspaper then you can have much more efficient communications.”
If this sounds farfetched, consider this clipping from [www.metafilter.com] which links to various news agencies:
N Korea on ‘brink of nuclear war’ with USNorth Korea has issued its latest pronouncement in its diplomatic stoush with the United States, saying it is on the brink of nuclear war with the US.
Pyongyang has dismissed the recent multilateral talks on the region as fruitless.
The Korean Central News Agency says Washington is “driving the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war”.
It argues Pyongyang has no choice but to step up its push for nuclear weapons.
…is the MeFi article correct in saying this is getting no airplay in the USA?
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