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Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reasonable-suspicion dept.

Cryofan writes "Reuters is reporting that the Justice Dept. has raided the homes of 5 people in several states for trading music on p2p networks. The traders were, however, not arrested. 'P2P does not stand for 'permission to pilfer,' Ashcroft said. The Reuters story says that the 5 'were people operating hubs in a file-sharing network based on Direct Connect software,' and who had provided between 'one and 100 gigabytes of material to trade, or up to 250,000 songs.' 'They are clearly directing and operating an enterprise which countenances illegal activity and makes as a condition of membership the willingness to make available material to be stolen,' said Ashcroft."

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  1. Direct Connect by Burgundy+Advocate · · Score: 5, Funny

    100 GB, huh? Sounds pretty good. Link?

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  2. Petabytes? by JDRipper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that what happens to people who wear fur?

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  3. Re:Doesn't the DOJ have better things to do... by M51DPS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well sure, let's just ignore all the kids downloading music for free and go after people out to kill us. Now who sounds absolutely ridiculous?

  4. Re:Terminology by macshune · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check earlier in the day and you'll find this lovely quote explaining everything, "...pentabytes are the new, arbitrary metric of the evil, satanic file-sharing people."

    To be a little more technical, I think it's somewhere between a crap byte and a fuck byte, 500-1000 shit bytes, IIRC.

  5. Dear John by theolein · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am so glad that you are taking time off your busy schedule of raping the public's personal freedoms to further the cause of rapacious corporate greed while 14% of the nation lives under the poverty line.

    Yours Truly
    The RIAA and the MPAA

  6. Re:A busy day for the feds... by Zareste · · Score: 5, Funny

    our attorney general is confused about the difference between peta- and tera-

    And also 'stealing' and 'transferring', 'interrogation' and 'torture', and 'his ass' from 'a hole in the ground'.

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  7. Re:A busy day for the feds... by dasmegabyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    100 gigabytes of material to trade, or up to 250,000 songs

    Ah, I see Ashcroft is using the world famous iPod scale of data density, which will some day eclipse the byte as the standard metric measurement of all data lengths and capacities.

    "Hey ted, I'm going to attach pictures of the baby to this email."

    "How big are the files?"

    "1.25 songs."

    "That's a no go, man. My mail server only allows up to .95 of a song before charging me for the soundwidth."

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