I thought most everyone switched to qbitorrent years ago when they started showing ads and other strange things. My main tracker doesn't even allow Utorrent anymore. I'm guessing q isn't affected by this?
the timing couldn't have been worse for my household. I dug up my old lifetime keys friday after about 5 years to install it on my childrens playroom computer and my backup pc and staurday both systems were unusable with malwarebytes using 90+% cpu and 50+% HD. I actually uninstalled both when I got home Saturday with the thought 'Wow, Malwarebytes has totally gone to crap, I remember when it used to be good". I had planned to look up and find out what the hell happened to the program today when this article shows up on my feed. Is it worth giving them another chance? I have no idea how common this kindof thing is for them. I was pretty dissapointed.
The radiation level at the surface of Europa is equivalent to a dose of about 5400mSv (540 rem) per day, an amount of radiation that would cause severe illness or death in human beings exposed for a single day.
This weird criminal somehow has 50 GB * 1,000,000 = 47.6 petabytes of enterprise storage? Without getting one dollar? How is this paid for? Not to mention all the data traffic back and forth which will be even more expensive?
1. Not every user is using 50gb. 2. He has lots of money. 3. He is investing in a new enterprise and knows that he has to spend money first in order to make money in the future.
I assumed all that was fairly obvious. What's your theory, by the way?
Wasteland 2 was never meant to be as huge of a project as it has become, and they have been incredibly good about keeping everyone informed and up to date on whats going on. At least once a week on Facebook they are linking to new artwork, music, footage or just letting us know that they are still here and working hard on making the best game possible. I don't think too many of us will be disappointed, they know what the community expects from this release, and they are just as excited as we are to finally see their years and years of frustration and hard work come together in this project..
People keep saying that it's more than just Apple. This is true, but only ONE company made 14 billion dollars profit in one quarter, directly as a result of paying very little for its parts and labor. Not only that, but Apple is well known for squeezing companies like Foxconn even further to produce more, faster, and for less. Ask yourself, at the point in history when companies like Nokia or RIM sold more phones than Apple, were any of them making 14 billion in one quarter?
Are there other companies manufacturing in China under horrible conditions? Yes absolutely. However, these other American based companies are not held up for all to see as the great American success story.
Someone needs to be boycotted, and Apple is just the obvious choice. Boycotting anyone else wouldn't have an effect. And really, how else can regular people make a statement than with their wallets?
Other companies use Foxconn for their products too, but if Apple says 'enough is enough' don't you think those other companies will follow suit? No company would knowingly commit suicide by backing Foxxconn if Apple goes on record and does the right thing here, by forcing their manufacturer to not treat employees like cattle.
lies. post the ripoff report, and let us see this 'damaging' info. You can contact the administrator at EDitor@ripoffreport.com and it will be removed if it is obviously just some scary firebrand spamming bullshit. sounds like you have evidence.
Kindof hard to feel bad for you without any evidence, or knowledge of what steps you took to exonerate yourself. This is no different from receiving a summons in the mail. you can't just ignore it and expect it to go away. If the case is interesting enough, it will be picked up by the press and distributed across the globe. If you do nothing, than the information will continue to circulate without check. Stepping in now will at least stem the tide of false info.
If you emailed the editor with 'omg lol so sorry neva hit tha biznitch shes a hater' then of course hes going to ignore your email. Without some sort of idea of what happened, you will get no sympathy from anyone.
This has happened to me, no kidding. When I was around 22 I took a job pouring concrete walls as a temp. There was 1 opening available with the company, but they needed extra guys to do this particular project. ( a row of basements) It was grueling, dirty, evil work. About a week in, there were 3 of us left out of the 9 or 10 guys who initially showed up. Friday rolled around and the owner of the company asked everyone out for some drinks (he was buying!) We all had a great time and I ended up drinking a little too much, had to call a cab. The next day the owner calls me to tell me that he was going to buy out my temp contract and start me full time on Monday because I was the only one 'who could drink like a real man'. Alot of great times were had with those guys.
Can you stop posting bitcoin articles already? Slashdot is the ONLY place I hear about it, and almost everyday there is some stupid story about them. At this point I'm guessing the editors own millions of these worthless things, and they are hoping to generate interest so hey can unload them on some sucker. The rest of the world doesn't care in the slightest about bitcoin, including your readers. Can we go back to stuff that matters now?
others include:
5,579,517: Common name space for long and short filenames
5,758,352: Common name space for long and short filenames
6,621,746: Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations
6,826,762: Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware- specific driver layer
6,909,910: Method and system for managing changes to a contact database
7,644,376: Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes
5,664,133: Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior
6,578,054: Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information
6,370,566: Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device
here are a few of the patents Microsoft claims against Android:
People also expect to be able to access command windows without interfering with the application's main window, and to be able to tab through various screens to find the information they need. Microsoft's patents enable the opening of a new, tabbed control window. (U.S. Patent No. 5,889,522)
Surfing the web quickly is a key device feature. One of the patents in this case enables devices to show the content of a page even while the background is still rendering, allowing users to interact with the page more quickly. (U.S. Patent No. 5,778,372)
Users also want to know the status of their downloads. A Microsoft patent provides information about download status on top of the content display. (U.S. Patent No. 6,339,780)
The ability to select text is critical to working with documents. One of our patents enables users to select text, see what is selected via highlighting, and expand the selection in either direction as desired. (U.S. Patent No. 6,891,551)
Users also want to annotate e-books and other documents. A Microsoft patent allows people to insert and review annotations without changing the underlying document, and to select annotations and be brought to the related portion of the document. (U.S. Patent No. 6,957,233)
So far I have found the honeypot release reprinted or linked to the guardian article at:
zmarter.com
esciencenews.com
tweetmeme.com
wn.com
topsy.com
tingly.com
scandalnews.com
and johornews.com
I seem to have been compromised by Chinese mmorpg gold farmers. They even send their sent mail to the trash, which I find interesting. They have sent over 15 emails already in the past 4 hours advertising the site: www.Mmop.com from ip 58.20.79.212. What is most interesting about this is the fact that the password on this account isn't exactly what I would call easy to guess, and has to have been lifted from another site or source.
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I'm sorry if the people you work for are losing money, but they are no better than the pirates themselves. At the end of the day, all they are doing is making money off of other peoples copyrighted work. Just because they have a permission slip doesn't mean that their obviously failed business model is valid. Take your Troll post to the whine store; its not a valid point - its an attempt to seek sympathy and attention, in a sad, pathetic way.
Last I checked, RADIOACTIVE is not the same thing as non-toxic and uraninite is pretty danged radioactive. Personally when I think non-toxic I think elmer's glue, not something that in even very small pieces can kill me and my whole family.
Urininte Mineral Data:
http://webmineral.com/data/Uraninite.shtml
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· Score: 3, Interesting
If they think for a second that the masses are just going to roll over on this one they are crazy - this is the exact type of thing that could get people burning their products in the streets.
The outrage of them suing unwed mothers without computers (not to mention the deceased) is a mouse fart compared to whats going to happen when they start suing children.
Actually this album is pretty good... I'd like to thank all the little people who made this possible today... The Members of Harvey Danger, for making unique music in todays age of overdubs and the 'every song must be a single' mindset; Slashdot, for posting this on the front page; P2P file sharing, for allowing me to get this file quickly and easily via bittorrent ; and finally the RIAA for not turning these guys into another 'Nickleback' clone.
Brilliant Idea. And yes, im actually gonna buy this now that I have heard it - not so much because its the best album ever, or anything... but because someone finally gave me a chance to do so. What would the RIAA say if this record sold a bunch of copies, even with it being freely available in its entirety from the same website? (with the exception of the 30 minute companion piece)
not to mention: $11.99 = CHEAP!
Ive been using the bittorrent client for a few years now and not only have I turned MANY people onto it, but it has helped many of those people understand important things about their boxes i.e. firewalls, port forwarding, configuring routers, etc...
Bittorrent definently isnt about pirated (god I hate that word) content. Bram Cohen has stated many times that bittorrent was never intended to promot piracy or help the spread of 'copyrighted' information. Its nice to see that the bigwigs are finally pulling their heads out of their butts and seeing the light of day. The future, as they say is here and its jump on the boat or get swept away by the tidle wave that is freely distributed content. I cant imagine too many of us would be unwilling to pay $5 for a dvd quality copy of The latest Blockbuster smash downloaded at high speed and shared legally. (assuming the MPAA EVER releases another blockbuster smash) or even a few bucks for a copy of our favorite album. Greed is gonna screw this all up of course, but this is an excellent idea, at least on paper.
If you could get HD Movies in Bin/Cue format for $5 or 10 bucks from MPAAROCKS.COM that unfortunately (since they are forcing us to go in this direction)are drm'ed to only allow 3 or 4 copies to be made or goto PIRATEHAXORMOFOS.XXX.CAM and get some cropped, blurry copy of the same movie for free, which one are you gonna choose?
If they play their cards right and not try to make it a cash and grab (like every other venture) they could actually make a pretty impressive profit by releasing high quality media at affordible prices........
who am I kidding?
just reading the article, i totally agree. instead of making numerous posts criticizing others beliefs i will just stick with this. and god god damn any slashdot member thinks there is a problem with this article. (I gotz me a bigo' tree out bak 4 ya)
Ok, so I got this news story in my email today. They have to be kidding me - the damn sites they shut down aren't even the ones that the majority of users go to. Have you guys even heard of these sites? Probably not. I have been getting immediately aired tv programs (or even a week in advance) for over a year now, and it hasn't been by going to these sites that combined have less than 100k users. If I didn't use bittorrent, I would never get to watch The Simpsons, Shield, New Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Everybody Loves Raymond... etc. Why? Cuz I work 3-11's thats why!I miss ALL of prime time. Bittorrent tracker sites keep me interested and watching until the day my ass becomes unemployed and watching the boob tube 24 hours a day. I could probably make a million points about fair usage here that a thousand other people have made before me, but there is no need. The point is, the MPAA isn't going after the sites that have 500k or even 300k users, they aren't sending lawsuits to their servers and they aren't doing anything more than trying to scare the big sites into closing their doors... why? Because I think they realize this is one of the grey areas where they actually have a chance of losing in a drawn out court case; most people see television programming as free anyway... you can pick it up on your tv without paying and using some tinfoil right? Its not any different to most people to watch 'CSI' on their rabbbit ears than it is to watch it on their Windows / Linux box.
I totally disagree with this.(paragraph 1) Imagine a world in which your ISP monitored all your actions to make sure you were being a 'good boy'. Might as well monitor phone conversations too, just in case you mention pirating movies... or disagreeing with the president. And better monitor book sales too - in case you buy a book on the 'black list'. Oh and software needs to be monitored too... cant have people downloading linux , because that promotes the idea of free society and product. I guess that might create a bit of ruckus.... well, not if they take these freedoms one by one... we will get blindsided. After all, we are just protecting the rights of the creators, we are only punishing the individuals that pirate movies/ buy books with bomb making referances/ badmouth Bush. Of course this would never happen though right? For one, where would we house all these prisoners... alot of people break the law... let me show you plans I found in one of those 'banned' history books from the 20th century... it explains the construction and maintenance of camps to house mass amounts of prisoners...
Ok that might be taking it a bit far, but even suggesting that a private corporation montior individuals to ensure that they aren't breaking the law is ludacris. Not to mention how easy it would be to get someone in trouble by hiding a bit of warez in a virus of some sort, or malicious program so that you could get back at your enemies. hell, you could even mass email stuff like that and get hundreds of thousand of innocent users' accounts canceled... fun for all!
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I thought most everyone switched to qbitorrent years ago when they started showing ads and other strange things. My main tracker doesn't even allow Utorrent anymore. I'm guessing q isn't affected by this?
the timing couldn't have been worse for my household. I dug up my old lifetime keys friday after about 5 years to install it on my childrens playroom computer and my backup pc and staurday both systems were unusable with malwarebytes using 90+% cpu and 50+% HD. I actually uninstalled both when I got home Saturday with the thought 'Wow, Malwarebytes has totally gone to crap, I remember when it used to be good". I had planned to look up and find out what the hell happened to the program today when this article shows up on my feed. Is it worth giving them another chance? I have no idea how common this kindof thing is for them. I was pretty dissapointed.
If Dell can do this, I am pretty sure General Motors could figure it out.
The radiation level at the surface of Europa is equivalent to a dose of about 5400mSv (540 rem) per day, an amount of radiation that would cause severe illness or death in human beings exposed for a single day.
This weird criminal somehow has 50 GB * 1,000,000 = 47.6 petabytes of enterprise storage? Without getting one dollar? How is this paid for? Not to mention all the data traffic back and forth which will be even more expensive?
1. Not every user is using 50gb.
2. He has lots of money.
3. He is investing in a new enterprise and knows that he has to spend money first in order to make money in the future.
I assumed all that was fairly obvious. What's your theory, by the way?
A single one of his new racks holds 720TB of data. http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-shows-off-mega-rack-121218/
Wasteland 2 was never meant to be as huge of a project as it has become, and they have been incredibly good about keeping everyone informed and up to date on whats going on. At least once a week on Facebook they are linking to new artwork, music, footage or just letting us know that they are still here and working hard on making the best game possible. I don't think too many of us will be disappointed, they know what the community expects from this release, and they are just as excited as we are to finally see their years and years of frustration and hard work come together in this project..
People keep saying that it's more than just Apple. This is true, but only ONE company made 14 billion dollars profit in one quarter, directly as a result of paying very little for its parts and labor. Not only that, but Apple is well known for squeezing companies like Foxconn even further to produce more, faster, and for less. Ask yourself, at the point in history when companies like Nokia or RIM sold more phones than Apple, were any of them making 14 billion in one quarter?
Are there other companies manufacturing in China under horrible conditions? Yes absolutely. However, these other American based companies are not held up for all to see as the great American success story.
Someone needs to be boycotted, and Apple is just the obvious choice. Boycotting anyone else wouldn't have an effect. And really, how else can regular people make a statement than with their wallets?
Other companies use Foxconn for their products too, but if Apple says 'enough is enough' don't you think those other companies will follow suit? No company would knowingly commit suicide by backing Foxxconn if Apple goes on record and does the right thing here, by forcing their manufacturer to not treat employees like cattle.
Recently over 300 workers at the Foxconn manufacturing plant threatened suicide if working conditions didn't improve. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57357444/xbox-360-workers-reportedly-threaten-mass-suicide/
Its gotten so bad that the employees are forced to sign contracts when they are hired stating they won't kill themselves while at work.
With 98B in cash, Apple is also the only company capable of effecting a change. As they've always said, "Apple leads the way", so lead on Apple...
lies. post the ripoff report, and let us see this 'damaging' info. You can contact the administrator at EDitor@ripoffreport.com and it will be removed if it is obviously just some scary firebrand spamming bullshit. sounds like you have evidence.
Kindof hard to feel bad for you without any evidence, or knowledge of what steps you took to exonerate yourself. This is no different from receiving a summons in the mail. you can't just ignore it and expect it to go away. If the case is interesting enough, it will be picked up by the press and distributed across the globe. If you do nothing, than the information will continue to circulate without check. Stepping in now will at least stem the tide of false info.
If you emailed the editor with 'omg lol so sorry neva hit tha biznitch shes a hater' then of course hes going to ignore your email. Without some sort of idea of what happened, you will get no sympathy from anyone.
This has happened to me, no kidding. When I was around 22 I took a job pouring concrete walls as a temp. There was 1 opening available with the company, but they needed extra guys to do this particular project. ( a row of basements) It was grueling, dirty, evil work. About a week in, there were 3 of us left out of the 9 or 10 guys who initially showed up. Friday rolled around and the owner of the company asked everyone out for some drinks (he was buying!)
We all had a great time and I ended up drinking a little too much, had to call a cab.
The next day the owner calls me to tell me that he was going to buy out my temp contract and start me full time on Monday because I was the only one 'who could drink like a real man'.
Alot of great times were had with those guys.
Can you stop posting bitcoin articles already? Slashdot is the ONLY place I hear about it, and almost everyday there is some stupid story about them. At this point I'm guessing the editors own millions of these worthless things, and they are hoping to generate interest so hey can unload them on some sucker. The rest of the world doesn't care in the slightest about bitcoin, including your readers. Can we go back to stuff that matters now?
others include:
5,579,517: Common name space for long and short filenames
5,758,352: Common name space for long and short filenames
6,621,746: Monitoring entropic conditions of a flash memory device as an indicator for invoking erasure operations
6,826,762: Radio interface layer in a cell phone with a set of APIs having a hardware-independent proxy layer and a hardware- specific driver layer
6,909,910: Method and system for managing changes to a contact database
7,644,376: Flexible architecture for notifying applications of state changes
5,664,133: Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior
6,578,054: Method and system for supporting off-line mode of operation and synchronization using resource state information
6,370,566: Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device
here are a few of the patents Microsoft claims against Android:
People also expect to be able to access command windows without interfering with the application's main window, and to be able to tab through various screens to find the information they need. Microsoft's patents enable the opening of a new, tabbed control window. (U.S. Patent No. 5,889,522)
Surfing the web quickly is a key device feature. One of the patents in this case enables devices to show the content of a page even while the background is still rendering, allowing users to interact with the page more quickly. (U.S. Patent No. 5,778,372)
Users also want to know the status of their downloads. A Microsoft patent provides information about download status on top of the content display. (U.S. Patent No. 6,339,780)
The ability to select text is critical to working with documents. One of our patents enables users to select text, see what is selected via highlighting, and expand the selection in either direction as desired. (U.S. Patent No. 6,891,551)
Users also want to annotate e-books and other documents. A Microsoft patent allows people to insert and review annotations without changing the underlying document, and to select annotations and be brought to the related portion of the document. (U.S. Patent No. 6,957,233)
So far I have found the honeypot release reprinted or linked to the guardian article at:
zmarter.com
esciencenews.com
tweetmeme.com
wn.com
topsy.com
tingly.com
scandalnews.com
and johornews.com
I disagree. My PS2, Xbox and Wii are all modded. How many pirated games do I own for these platforms? None.
I agree. My PS2, Xbox360 and Wii are all modded. How many pirated games do I own for these platforms? ALL OF THEM.
I seem to have been compromised by Chinese mmorpg gold farmers. They even send their sent mail to the trash, which I find interesting. They have sent over 15 emails already in the past 4 hours advertising the site: www.Mmop.com from ip 58.20.79.212. What is most interesting about this is the fact that the password on this account isn't exactly what I would call easy to guess, and has to have been lifted from another site or source.
I'm sorry if the people you work for are losing money, but they are no better than the pirates themselves. At the end of the day, all they are doing is making money off of other peoples copyrighted work. Just because they have a permission slip doesn't mean that their obviously failed business model is valid. Take your Troll post to the whine store; its not a valid point - its an attempt to seek sympathy and attention, in a sad, pathetic way.
I'm willing to bet this is the beginning of a VERY long day.
Last I checked, RADIOACTIVE is not the same thing as non-toxic and uraninite is pretty danged radioactive. Personally when I think non-toxic I think elmer's glue, not something that in even very small pieces can kill me and my whole family. Urininte Mineral Data: http://webmineral.com/data/Uraninite.shtml
Im pretty sure this brings the list to 23?
* Cordelia - 1986
* Ophelia - 1986
* Bianca - 1986
* Cressida - 1986
* Desdemona - 1986
* Juliet - 1986
* Portia - 1986
* Rosalind - 1986
* Belinda - 1986
* Puck - 1986
* Titania - 1787
* Oberon - 1787
* Ariel - 1851
* Miranda - 1948
* Umbriel - ?
* Caliban
* Sycorax
* Prospero
* Setebos
* Stephano
* Perditta - 1986
* Mab - 2005
* Cupid - 2005
Thats a heck of alot of moons!
If they think for a second that the masses are just going to roll over on this one they are crazy - this is the exact type of thing that could get people burning their products in the streets.
The outrage of them suing unwed mothers without computers (not to mention the deceased) is a mouse fart compared to whats going to happen when they start suing children.
Actually this album is pretty good... I'd like to thank all the little people who made this possible today... The Members of Harvey Danger, for making unique music in todays age of overdubs and the 'every song must be a single' mindset; Slashdot, for posting this on the front page; P2P file sharing, for allowing me to get this file quickly and easily via bittorrent ; and finally the RIAA for not turning these guys into another 'Nickleback' clone. Brilliant Idea. And yes, im actually gonna buy this now that I have heard it - not so much because its the best album ever, or anything... but because someone finally gave me a chance to do so. What would the RIAA say if this record sold a bunch of copies, even with it being freely available in its entirety from the same website? (with the exception of the 30 minute companion piece) not to mention: $11.99 = CHEAP!
Ive been using the bittorrent client for a few years now and not only have I turned MANY people onto it, but it has helped many of those people understand important things about their boxes i.e. firewalls, port forwarding, configuring routers, etc... Bittorrent definently isnt about pirated (god I hate that word) content. Bram Cohen has stated many times that bittorrent was never intended to promot piracy or help the spread of 'copyrighted' information. Its nice to see that the bigwigs are finally pulling their heads out of their butts and seeing the light of day. The future, as they say is here and its jump on the boat or get swept away by the tidle wave that is freely distributed content. I cant imagine too many of us would be unwilling to pay $5 for a dvd quality copy of The latest Blockbuster smash downloaded at high speed and shared legally. (assuming the MPAA EVER releases another blockbuster smash) or even a few bucks for a copy of our favorite album. Greed is gonna screw this all up of course, but this is an excellent idea, at least on paper. If you could get HD Movies in Bin/Cue format for $5 or 10 bucks from MPAAROCKS.COM that unfortunately (since they are forcing us to go in this direction)are drm'ed to only allow 3 or 4 copies to be made or goto PIRATEHAXORMOFOS.XXX.CAM and get some cropped, blurry copy of the same movie for free, which one are you gonna choose? If they play their cards right and not try to make it a cash and grab (like every other venture) they could actually make a pretty impressive profit by releasing high quality media at affordible prices. .... ...
who am I kidding?
just reading the article, i totally agree. instead of making numerous posts criticizing others beliefs i will just stick with this. and god god damn any slashdot member thinks there is a problem with this article. (I gotz me a bigo' tree out bak 4 ya)
Ok, so I got this news story in my email today. They have to be kidding me - the damn sites they shut down aren't even the ones that the majority of users go to. Have you guys even heard of these sites? Probably not. I have been getting immediately aired tv programs (or even a week in advance) for over a year now, and it hasn't been by going to these sites that combined have less than 100k users. If I didn't use bittorrent, I would never get to watch The Simpsons, Shield, New Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Everybody Loves Raymond... etc. Why? Cuz I work 3-11's thats why!I miss ALL of prime time. Bittorrent tracker sites keep me interested and watching until the day my ass becomes unemployed and watching the boob tube 24 hours a day. I could probably make a million points about fair usage here that a thousand other people have made before me, but there is no need. The point is, the MPAA isn't going after the sites that have 500k or even 300k users, they aren't sending lawsuits to their servers and they aren't doing anything more than trying to scare the big sites into closing their doors... why? Because I think they realize this is one of the grey areas where they actually have a chance of losing in a drawn out court case; most people see television programming as free anyway... you can pick it up on your tv without paying and using some tinfoil right? Its not any different to most people to watch 'CSI' on their rabbbit ears than it is to watch it on their Windows / Linux box.
I totally disagree with this.(paragraph 1) Imagine a world in which your ISP monitored all your actions to make sure you were being a 'good boy'. Might as well monitor phone conversations too, just in case you mention pirating movies... or disagreeing with the president. And better monitor book sales too - in case you buy a book on the 'black list'. Oh and software needs to be monitored too... cant have people downloading linux , because that promotes the idea of free society and product. I guess that might create a bit of ruckus.... well, not if they take these freedoms one by one... we will get blindsided. After all, we are just protecting the rights of the creators, we are only punishing the individuals that pirate movies/ buy books with bomb making referances/ badmouth Bush. Of course this would never happen though right? For one, where would we house all these prisoners... alot of people break the law... let me show you plans I found in one of those 'banned' history books from the 20th century... it explains the construction and maintenance of camps to house mass amounts of prisoners... Ok that might be taking it a bit far, but even suggesting that a private corporation montior individuals to ensure that they aren't breaking the law is ludacris. Not to mention how easy it would be to get someone in trouble by hiding a bit of warez in a virus of some sort, or malicious program so that you could get back at your enemies. hell, you could even mass email stuff like that and get hundreds of thousand of innocent users' accounts canceled... fun for all!