Personally, I believe that the United States needs to understand that they aren't the only entity in the world and that they cannot determine the future of the Internet because they are paranoid about "terrorism".
We're not all paranoid about terrorism. Just the people in power are.
I think for people with cars, it would be more practical and less expensive to use the money for a cigarette-lighter adapter to power the laptop. Using a laptop to find the hot spots may be a distraction from driving but so is stopping every five minutes to see if a hot spot has encryption.
Anonymous sources indicate that the Porn Industry Association of America (PIAA)
intends to file suit against up to 20,000 illegal file swappers, with the British
Porn Consortium to follow suit in the coming months. The new wave of peer-to-peer
file-sharing networks has allowed pornographic material to be shared easily,
causing dramatic decreases in pornography sales. The biggest sources of illegal
file sharing appear to be college campuses, insecure wireless networks, and
people's basements.
Also indicated, C-Net affiliate porn.com.com reports that in order to fend
off the consumer backlash, the PIAA has enlisted the help of the celebrities
it represents to endorse the legal purchase of pornographic material. In the
coming months, superstars Pamela Anderson and Lil' Kim will deliver spots informing
consumers of how stealing pornography deprives artists of the income they deserve.
Furthermore, filmographer Rick Solomon will deliver spots on how the decrease
in revenue stifles his innovation.
Suggested alternatives to illegal porn swapping include the new Apple-supported
service iPorn, RealNetworks' secure RealPorn protocol, and Microsoft's Porn
Media 9 format featuring 5.1 audio.
Well, I think it was ruled that the original Napster would be breaking the law if it said "user 'foo' has a copy of the song you want and here it is..."
"I for one would love to find out what kind of pr0n sitest federal judges go to."
I know some of them like to visit "catfight" websites.
Anyway, I think the most disturbing part of this news story is that it seems wiretapping suddenly is not wiretapping anymore if you move the wiretap to a different part of the computer. This kind of reasoning seems typical of our current U.S. government administration. I also wonder why nobody is questioning the legality of altering the poor guy's computer system, which was not necessary for conducting a search of his home. And all they had was a search warrant, right?
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We're not all paranoid about terrorism. Just the people in power are.
I think for people with cars, it would be more practical and less expensive to use the money for a cigarette-lighter adapter to power the laptop. Using a laptop to find the hot spots may be a distraction from driving but so is stopping every five minutes to see if a hot spot has encryption.
Anonymous sources indicate that the Porn Industry Association of America (PIAA) intends to file suit against up to 20,000 illegal file swappers, with the British Porn Consortium to follow suit in the coming months. The new wave of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has allowed pornographic material to be shared easily, causing dramatic decreases in pornography sales. The biggest sources of illegal file sharing appear to be college campuses, insecure wireless networks, and people's basements.
Also indicated, C-Net affiliate porn.com.com reports that in order to fend off the consumer backlash, the PIAA has enlisted the help of the celebrities it represents to endorse the legal purchase of pornographic material. In the coming months, superstars Pamela Anderson and Lil' Kim will deliver spots informing consumers of how stealing pornography deprives artists of the income they deserve. Furthermore, filmographer Rick Solomon will deliver spots on how the decrease in revenue stifles his innovation.
Suggested alternatives to illegal porn swapping include the new Apple-supported service iPorn, RealNetworks' secure RealPorn protocol, and Microsoft's Porn Media 9 format featuring 5.1 audio.
That's a pretty nice song...
Well, I think it was ruled that the original Napster would be breaking the law if it said "user 'foo' has a copy of the song you want and here it is..."
This seems to be the same thing.
I know some of them like to visit "catfight" websites.
Anyway, I think the most disturbing part of this news story is that it seems wiretapping suddenly is not wiretapping anymore if you move the wiretap to a different part of the computer. This kind of reasoning seems typical of our current U.S. government administration. I also wonder why nobody is questioning the legality of altering the poor guy's computer system, which was not necessary for conducting a search of his home. And all they had was a search warrant, right?