Posted on 05/25/2005 2:58:48 PM PDT by HAL9000
I've downloaded as many as 50 files over BitTorrent, it doesn't make me a pirate.
So it is easier for the FBI to allocate resources to nail file sharers than to go after phish scams that are emptying bank accounts?
I used BitTorrent to download some tsumani videos in January. Without it, you have to wait and wait and wait while downloading. It is a fast technology that allows compression and sending of large files. Of course, it can be abused too. I'm glad to see the FBI and other law enforcement get after pirated copies, but would hate to see the technology outlawed, or its name associated with illegal acts.
Umm how can they "crack down" on a protocol? Bittorrent is simply a protocol like http or ftp.
As far as the feds are considered, if you are a private citizen and own a computer, you are a software pirate.
We're ALL criminals to the tyranny.
By the way, BitTorrent is a download program with no frontend GUI, nor search program, therefore it is not a peer-to-peer program.
Depends on what the files were, doesn't it? If they were photos from your G-ma you are OK.
It sounds like the FBI has too many people and too big a budget -- if they have time for this sort of thing. I guess the risk from terrorists has been eliminated.
Look for three more just like it to set up shop in foreign jurisdictions well out of the FBI's reach.
No kidding....
http://news.com.com/Minnesota+court+takes+dim+view+of+encryption/2100-1030_3-5718978.html
Thats right, court precedent now exists that merely having encryption software on your PC is criminal intent.
There's a guy dead with a gunshot wound. You have a gun locked up in your cabinet. Urgo, you are guilty.
Welcome to the police state.
Hmm, I was thinking they had been hacked, as there was a tag at the bottom of the page that said: "RTJKJAS". Figured it was a hacker's name. Wonder what it means, though.
Ping
I've downloaded as many as 50 GIGS using BitTorrent. It doesn't make me a pirate, either.
If you wouldn't download so often, you might find the time to finally finish your own album.
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That one took me a second. ROFLMAO
_____________ Let's see, what else cost U.S. industry hundreds of billions of dollars? Illegal immigrants! So here is the FBI and ICE spending time and tax dollars rounding up downloaders. And all this time we have what invading across the boarder?
That's a poor mischaracterization. The evidence will be presented in court, and the judge has simply allowed the fact that he hid his child porn with encryption be entered as evidence he was hiding it, ergo he knew it was wrong. His defense can point out he encrypted everything, if he encrypted anything else besides his child porn, if they want to argue he wasn't trying to hide the child porn because he didn't know it was wrong. Encryption itself is not being considered criminal.
Or to deal with the real pirates in china and russia. How many billions are lost to their "infringements"?
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