On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:50:30 -0500 dank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan Kolis) wrote: > >This really doesn't say much about the scalability of the > >solution. What it indicates is how much effort people are > >willing to go to to commit what is perceived as victimless > >crime. > > Two things. > First, here in Canada there is a new tax on "media" like > writable CD's;(extendable to Memory cards, or anything that > likely holds licenced media). And this ostensibly is > redistributed to the artists via some sort of audit like > Arbitron, etc. So, at least here downloading movies, etc is > part of a transaction. Apparently, oddly its legal to download > music specifically... but MAYBE isn't legal; to offer it on a > permenently available server ... with what constitutes a > "server" intentionally vague. > Fortunately I don't live in Canada. Other wise, I would have now started downloading music (as I never have before), because I now wouldn't have a choice as to whether I pay for it or not. > Law is a work around by its very nature. It only pretends > precision. > > Second: If/When I start a residential gateway I think I will do > everything possible to make it IpNG capable. Thanks everyone > for talking me into it. I'm trying to study it in detail a > little every evening to get ready. I hope cable TV (my > industry) get with the program and do this right. These little > boxes glued all over the networks with there http interfaces... > are not specifically too good. If anything will force the issue > its going to be SIP I think. > > Does anyone know when/if Microsoft is bring out a consumer > operating system with IpV6 in it? That would be useful for > market acceptance...??? > I'm no expert (don't use MS OS anymore), but I understand that IPv6 already comes with XP. Apparently, it is a simple one-line command to install it. >From what I've heard, the major thing missing would be NetBIOS over IPv6 a.k.a. Microsoft File and Print sharing over IPv6. Regards, Mark.