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House IP Leader Endorses P2P Blocking
Technical Writing Geek points out an Ars Technica report on comments from Representative Howard Coble (R-NC), who sits on the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. In a recent editorial, Coble attempts to discourage P2P file sharing among young people, and praises Ohio University for its ban on P2P applications last year. Coble also suggests that identity theft is a great danger from file sharing. Public Knowledge is running a similar analysis, which argues against the main points from the editorial.
Yes, it's called the "voting box". If you don't like 'em, then vote 'em out.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
'cos the idiot users don't realize they are sharing their entire disk.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
Follow the money - Coble's just taking care of his patrons.
Hrm, who do I see here? The RIAA, ASCAP, the National Association of Broadcasters, and the American IP Law Association, all in his top 10.
The only surprise here is how long it's taken him to get around to taking care of them...
Where I work we have a separate, open, WIFI network with 100Mb/s bandwidth to the Internet. Download an ISO in minutes. This attracts a lot of people who park around the campus. It's amazing how many people have read/write access open to their entire hard drive. It's amazing how much personal information, such as what type of adult movies and mp3 they enjoy, is left wide open.
Most of these people have some sort of P2P client installed such as Limewire.
Windows should warn you if you have your entire C: drive shared read/write to guest and open through the firewall. In fact, I think they should remove that capability all together. Guest never should have full read/write access to c:\.