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WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA Dragnet

Posted by simoniker on from the ain't-nobody-here-but-us-fileswappers dept.

mblase writes "A CNET News article discusses a problem the RIAA is having with its copyright enforcement strategy: public wireless hot spots. Normally, the RIAA notifies the ISP when a user is found to be violating their copyrights, but in this case, the ISP is powerless to do anything. Key quote: '...unless the administrator keeps detailed logs of everybody's account use - which is not required by law - she may well not know who was swapping files.' I wonder how long it will be before those detailed logs ARE required by law?"

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  1. Does KazaaLite protect you ? by truthhurts1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just downloaded the new version which is supposed to hide IP address. Does anyone know if it works ?

  2. Affirmitive Action for pronouns by Dag+Maggot · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ...unless the administrator keeps detailed logs of everybody's account use - which is not required by law - she may well not know who was swapping files.

    This is offtopic, but I have noticed the increased use of the 'she' pronoun to describe positions that are in all honesty dominated by males. Is this a form of Grammatical Gender Affirmitive Action?

    I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it does sound funny to my ears, and distracts from whatever the actual object of the sentence is.

    I remember there was a good post on Kuroshin a while back advocating the creation of a gender neutral pronoun. I think they (ha!) promoted the idea of using 'They' which is often used (incorrectly) in place of he/she.

    I am in favor of the creation of a new word to avoid the confusion between third person singular and plural.

    The word I propose is 'e'. It takes the common portion of 'she' and 'he'.

    The possesive pronouns are a bit more difficult as they only have 'h' in common, and as it is a consonant, it is impossible to pronounce.

    For the gender neutral possesive pronoun, I suggest 'hiers' which is a nice blending
    of 'hers' and 'his'. For 'Her' and 'Him', similarly I suggest 'Hierm'



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  3. Re:What account? by sleeper0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sorry for OT question but where can you buy a prepaid debit card that works like a visa/etc with any supplied name? - honest Q

  4. Thank god that I... by sludg-o · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...LIVE IN B.F. NORTH DAKOTA!!!

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