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FWD# 61159
Wed, 30 Mar 2005
Features: ... console version, SIP, DTMF (dial tones) support though RFC2833 and ENUM support (to use SIP numbers instead of SIP addresses), includes a sip test server called "sipomatic" that automatically answers to calls by playing a pre-recorded message.
Now version 1.0.0, uses eXosip.
Siproxd - a masquerading SIP proxy
Siproxd is a proxy/masquerading daemon for the SIP protocol. It handles registrations of SIP clients on a private IP network and performs rewriting of the SIP message bodies to make SIP connections work via an masquerading firewall (NAT).
It allows SIP software clients (like kphone, linphone) or SIP hardware clients (Voice over IP phones which are SIP-compatible, such as those from Cisco, Grandstream or Snom) to work behind an IP masquerading firewall or NAT router.
Includes a two-way RTP proxy!!! May run on WRT54G.
Read the manual for lots of configuration examples, including running "in front" of a NAT router, and transparent proxying.
May also be suitable for Monash, where only some machines have direct Internet access, but there isn't any NAT.
oSIP is now at The GNU oSIP library. SIP links including eXosip, Partysip, antisip.
Grokster legal battle gets help from Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban announced that he is funding the Grokster fight agains MGM. The court case--in its simplest form--is trying to lay blame for the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials over P2P networks at the doors of the distributors.
In his blog Mr. Cuban explains how, since digital files became the norm, the power has been removed from the big studios and put into the hands of the independents. Content can be distributed in many different ways, and he argues that this is how it should be: the content is the thing of value, not the distribution. He believes that if Grokster et al lose, "technological innovation might not die, but it will have such a significant price tag associated with it, it will be the domain of the big corporations only."
Let the truth be told ... MGM vs Grokster
"Software doesn't steal content, people steal content."
In the Betamax case, the Supreme Court ruled that a company was not liable for creating a technology that some customers may use for copyright infringing purposes, so long as the technology is capable of substantial non-infringing uses.
It is remarkable to compare the arguments the entertainment industry is making against P2P in 2005 to the ones it made against the VTR (what they called VCRs back then) in 1982.