CIS 625 Journal Summaries- Article 4-6

Article 4: P2P not quite ready for the enterprise

� Original source

Summary:

� The author and his company believe peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is becoming, but is not yet,an enterprise-class solution.

� P2P networking faces some key obstacles as it evolves, including security concerns, a lackof standards and uncertain industry adoption.

� A Troy, NY company known as Buddyusa, Inc. offers a software product called Aimster. Aimster,unlike Napster, imposes some controls over file access and exchange. It also supportsexchange of any file type, not just the music files that got Napster into such trouble.

� Internet-based P2P networking is already at work on many computing problems.

Article 5: Sony: Downbeat for a new online music battle

� Original source

Summary:

� The pirated copies of CD, VCD and DVD are all over the world.

�The battle over online music could soon be hitting consumers at home

� Large music companies are still fighting to prevent pirated copies of their songs from appearing online -- and the latest move could prevent consumers from playing their legally bought CDs on their PCs.

� Sony confirmed that it had incorporated copy-protection software in promotional CD copies of the Michael Jackson single "You Rock My World."

�This made it impossible for radio producers to play the CD on PC CD-ROMs or to rerecord the single, and brings up a variety of legal and technical issues for consumers and professionals in the music business.

� Copy-protected using the key2audio technology

� The music industry has started releasing copy-controlled CDs

�The copy-controlled CD the customers purchase can't be copied to their portable MP3 players, or car MP3 jukeboxes, or in some cases, won't even play in a computer CD player at all

� Sony, through its Sony DADC division, has developed the key2audio technology, which works by applying several hidden signatures outside the music data area during the CD production process. These hidden signatures work like unique fingerprints and prevent CD-R/RW burners or professional production systems from making unauthorized copies.

Article 6: Yahoo news hacking highlights quiet danger

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Summary:

� The dangers of Internet worms and viruses are well known, but security experts are warning of a more pernicious and potentially more damaging kind of attack -- the manipulation of content on trusted Web sites.

� A hacker had rather easily entered Yahoo's news pages and inserted phony quotes and wrong information on stories.

� The incident highlights how vulnerable the Internet could be as a tool for quickly spreading misinformation.

Here are the notes for those sources:

4. Michael Dortch, P2P not quite ready for the enterprise, March 16, 2001, http://www.cio.com/analyst/031601_rfgonline.html> (26 September 2001), CNN.com.

5.Laura Rohde, Sony: Downbeat for a new online music battle, September 27, 2001,
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/27/sony.music.battle.idg/index.html>(26 September 2001),
CNN.com.

6.Associted Press, Yahoo news hacking highlights quiet danger, September 25, 2001,
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/25/yahoo.hacked.ap/index.html>(26 September 2001), CNN.com