Australia started this "Our laws are worldwide" last month (Dec. 10) when their High Court allowed Dow Jones of the USA to be sued for libel in Australia because an unflatering article written by an American writer and posted on an American web-site that was downloaded in Australia.
I can't imagine anything possible that more opens the door to this abuse of one country by another then that decision, which has now also been mirrored by the California court allowing KaZaa's Australian owners to be sued in the Golden State.
Download a fresh copy of your P2P application and do a binary compare of the program files against your current program files. Remember to look for new files that might have been added.
Look for similarities of header structure across different MP3 files of different songs. This shouldn't be that hard to automate.
If you find something suspicious, post it here for peer review.
Time to stop the histeria and get down to the truth of the matter. If a large number of machines are already infected, someone competent out there should be able to find this out pretty quick.
Then sue the pants off the RIAA under existing laws.
Just a month ago the Australian High Court ruled that a Dow Jones story published on the web in the USA could be tried for libel in Australia.
Now a California court rules an Australian resident can be sued in California for breaking California law.
Goes around, comes around.
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I can't imagine anything possible that more opens the door to this abuse of one country by another then that decision, which has now also been mirrored by the California court allowing KaZaa's Australian owners to be sued in the Golden State.
Download a fresh copy of your P2P application and do a binary compare of the program files against your current program files. Remember to look for new files that might have been added.
Look for similarities of header structure across different MP3 files of different songs. This shouldn't be that hard to automate.
If you find something suspicious, post it here for peer review.
Time to stop the histeria and get down to the truth of the matter. If a large number of machines are already infected, someone competent out there should be able to find this out pretty quick.
Then sue the pants off the RIAA under existing laws.
And how about Nessie?
Just a month ago the Australian High Court ruled that a Dow Jones story published on the web in the USA could be tried for libel in Australia. Now a California court rules an Australian resident can be sued in California for breaking California law. Goes around, comes around.