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Can P2P Filter Copyrighted Content?
scubacuda writes "DRMwatch reports that technologists acting on behalf of porn publisher Titan Media reported to Congress that P2P networks could (if they wanted to) use "fingerprinting" (aka "hashing") to detect copyrighted works and then filter them with the "spyware" installed on all nodes in the network."
First of all let me start off by saying, I gave my life to Christ when I was 14 years old. I grew up in a household with an abusive father. He was not physically abusive, just emotionally and verbally abusive. I lived as normal of a life as I could, the typical teenager over at a friend's house and finds a porn movie or magazine. You and your friends start to giggle and hope not to get caught. This is my earliest recollection of porn.
The enemy (Satan) picks his moments very carefully. I joined the US Army right from high school. It was an escape from my father. I was stationed as far away from Ohio without leaving the continental United States, Washington State. I was not on base for more than 2 days when I started getting the thoughts of loneliness. So I went to the local convenient store on base and picked up couple of pornographic magazines. For some strange reason, I did not feel lonely any more. This was Satan planting the first of many lies.
As my time grew longer in Washington State, I started to make friends and the loneliness went away. My buddies all had porn movies and magazines and it was no big deal. In the back of mind, I knew it was wrong. I started to rent movies on my own, about once a week. I was hooked. No girlfriend or acquaintance could fill my desire. It was not a need, it was a want/desire. I would go long periods without renting porn or purchasing magazines, but always went back to the habit. Then it was time for me to come back to Ohio.
I have been back in Cincinnati for 8 years now. Six of those years I have had Internet access. This only threw gas on the fire. Porn was easily accessed and if you knew where to look, it was free. I thought when I got married the porn would stop. Well, it stopped for only a few months. I thought when I had my first child it would stop, again for a few more months. With my second child, same thing. My anger only increased. I snapped at everything that moved. I started to exercise my faith and get involved more at church. I repented for my sins and started to feel better, but kept coming back to the same habit. My addiction was affecting my worship. I chose this point to use the word "addiction" because it was so hard for me to come to grips with it. It took me 6 years to realize I had a problem. I went to a church service earlier this year (2003) and heard a sermon on sexual purity. God convicted my heart and told me that it was time for me to listen to him instead of him listening to me. Satan planted many lies in my head like, "No one will ever know", "It's not hurting anyone", "What makes you think God will listen to you", and finally "Go ahead, you can ask for forgiveness when you are done". The last lie put me over the edge and I told my wife for the first time I had an Internet porn addiction.
I sought out professional counseling with a local Christian counselor (member of the Christian Counselors Association). Over the next few months, my life changed dramatically. I learned through a process lead by the Holy Spirit, that anger and pornography had been in my family for many generations. When I was healed from this dangerous addiction, it was like God ripped something from my body. God let me know the truth, "I am not in this battle alone", "I am here, just call upon me", and "I sent my son Jesus to bear all of your sins". I have been set free!!!! But...just because I had been set free does not mean the sins of the flesh do not reappear. When inappropriate thoughts enter my head or I am tempted, I ask the Holy Spirit to take the thought captive and be bound by the authority given me by the blood of Jesus Christ. Amazingly, the thought is removed, I praise God and get on with my day.
YOU ARE NOT IN THIS ALONE. IT MIGHT FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE TO COME FORWARD AND CONFESS TO YOUR HUSBAND OR WIFE, BUT IT IS THE FIRST STEP
This is a fabricated quote written by Communists and NOT what Niemoller said.Wonder why no one ever sources it?