FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring

AHuxley writes "Can the FBI get funding to create a next-generation network monitoring and database system for P2P networks, web sites, and chat rooms? Could the FBI's Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) network be opened to more law enforcement agents across the USA? Will the tracking of p2p users via 'unique serial numbers' generated from a person's computer be expanded from its first use in late 2005? Is your p2p application or plug-in sending back your MAC address, firmware revision, manufacture date, GUID or other details?" Could this story submitter pose any more questions in his submission? Won't someone please think of the ... oh, never mind.

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Re:All Fear, No Facts

[hairyfeet]

Actually they are labeled as child pornographers now, if you can believe it. Pretty much guaranteeing they will never have a job outside of meth lab worker, since nobody will hire either one after a background check. Oh, and let us not forget that a "rickroll" that goes to the FBI honeypot, even though there isn't any actual kiddy porn there and all you would see is a black corrupted DRM video, will get you 10 years and a permanent label of child molester, since the FBI isn't even bothering to record referrers or anything like that and simply clicking on it it considered "attempting to possess child pornography".

I start back to school in the fall and as soon as my 4 years is up I'll take a job with ANY foreign company, be it Mexico, India, Asia, wherever, as long as it gets me out of crazy corporate Jesusland(tm). This country is just getting too damn scary. It is like the red scare only EVERYBODY is considered a liberal commie pinko!

And as for the sig, I actually know a ton of folks with Apples from school (primarily an Apple centric campus) and a grand total of TWO use Office or boot camp. Everybody else tried iLife and iWork and all the other cool programs that came with it and went "Ooh,nice!" and never looked back. And with MSFT shooting themselves in the foot by only selling Vista after June 30th I bet the adoption rate will be going up. I personally can't wait until my student loans come in the fall to get me a nice Macbook which I will NOT be running MSFT on. If I break from MSFT for good (already running Linux on my laptop) I don't want anything on my Mac to drag be back. But that is my 02c,YMMV

P.S.-Since I don't have much experience with Macs, maybe someone could tell me-Is there something similar to Crossover on Linux for Macs? It would be nice if I could play Return to Castle Wolfenstein and a few other games while I killed time between classes. I'll probably keep a frankensteined XP gamer rig offline just for gaming, but Wolfenstein plays better on my laptop under Linux than it does on Windows so I was just curious if there was anything similar. Thanks and have a great weekend!!!

Re:All Fear, No Facts

[ask21900]

Bottom line is this: Technically, it is not illegal to download copyrighted music. It is illegal to listen to, distribute, posses (for any length of time), etc. In fact, you can duplicate copyrighted material if used specifically for education, religion, and other purposes. Everybody automatically has deniability... "I didn't know that the file was a copyrighted song. As soon as I found out, I deleted it." Therefore, feds either need to catch you in the act of sharing, or find the music on your system. In the event that they find music on your system, it is also legal to have a backup copy of your music (there are exact amounts that you can copy, etc. to be legal). That's somewhat easy to get away with too... "I own every CD that this music is on, but I keep my CDs ...enter location here..." The feds must then PROVE that you don't actually own the CDs. In the time that it takes them to make that case you could, if you have to, go buy all the CDs. I'm not sure why more people don't fight the feds (or rather the RIAA). There are endless "loopholes". One more thing: In order to be prosecuted for any crime, there is required to be a complainant. You can not be prosecuted for downloading music unless the label (or whoever owns the rights) wishes you to. For the record: All music that I listen to (every artist, every label) actually PROMOTES you to download their music. They have always been about singing what they are thinking, and want to "share" their thoughts with those that will listen. They have never been about money. For this reason (among others), I am dedicated to their "cause", and will support it however I can. I might copy a friends CD IF I AM BROKE when it comes out, but I have always went and bought the CD the next time I had a few bucks. I have every CD released by the label, bought and paid for, in my collection -- virtually all CDs coming from the label's online store.