Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files

mytrip writes "Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) has proposed an ambitious plan, costing on the order of $1 billion, aimed at curtailing illegal activities via P2P networks. His plan involves utilizing new software to monitor peer-to-peer traffic on an ongoing basis. 'At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said he was under the impression it's "pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation" simply by looking at file names. He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders."

Comments

Have fun with that

[BlueParrot]

Seeing that you could quite arguably claim that TCP is a "peer to peer" network he may need some storage space...

File names

[torkus]

pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation

And this one sentence proves the whole idea is ill-concieved and been given virtually no "real like" though. Never mind that porn sites spam p2p with name-spammed files ... never mind that staged 'rape' movies are rather easy to find ... never mind the zillions of "15year old pron" pictures that are 18+yo models from websites ... never mind that people can use code words that will completly stuff the filters.