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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."
My god, it's so simple! Why didn't anyone think of doing this earlier?
Let's hope the perverts and cirminals out there aren't as smart as he is, they may try changing filenames...
The democrats clearly have the power to overcome this minor problem: simply spend even more and tax even less. In fact, why tax _at all_ for the next four years? Just spend whatever you need, stop any service that you can do with for a few years, and let the republicans fix it.