RIAA can spy on you

[MIK3]

Looks like we will be reffereing to Omega's FTP more often. Hooray for Omega, heh. Then again, we cant forget about IRC! Man, where would we be w/ out that....

Thats where I get all mine anyways. Irc = Rules

[Uranium-235]

I forgot another major one...HTTP

David's server dosen't FTP for the majority if his stuff, he now uses http

[Omega]

Originally Posted by MIK3

Hooray for Omega

Heh, thanks. Anyway, I was actually discussing a topic similar to this earlier today, by chance. Speculation held, that as many systems as they shut down, or if they start blocking ports, or monitoring ports, or whatever, that it will be easy enough to get around the system by using port 80.

On the topic of my server, yeah, it's a good thing for the rest of you. Additionally, I'm getting a steady rate of new members as well (about 4-5 per week lately). I attribute that to my new error 404 page (http://192.168.0.21/404.html), and the fact that my (old) site content was spidered by Google. Now people trying to get stuff that's linked on Google's site know what's going on, and can still get stuff. I'm still kind of working on getting FTP back up, so users can give back to the community as well.


Back to the article, however. The judge said that "he saw no connection between music downloading and free speech," and I'd have to say I agree with him, for the most part. It's kind of scary to know that the internet is coming to a point where everything you do might be logged. My first thought is to start encrypting p2p data. I think they'd have to go though a lot of legal work to start breaking people's encryption to monitor their activity. Even like, 2 bit encryption would probably be fine. It'd be incredibly easy to crack, but it wouldn't slow down data tremendously. The point would be that it was in fact encrypted, and thus would be illegal to break into (that's my understanding, at least).

Obviously Kazaa, and Verizon, and whoever else doesn't think this is fair, but they can't blatantly disobey statute. Breaking into encryption, I would think, would require the RIAA to prove probable cause. I don't think the fact that __ GB of data was transferred to the user would be enough probable cause to get a warant or subpoena or whatever they need to break encryption.

On a slightly different note, someone was talking to me about how basically any big company can get around the judicial system to some extent. They can apparently get warants, and supoenas, and whatnot, without going through actual due process. I'm *somewhat* skeptical, but who am I to say what does and doesn't happen in the upper judicial branch?

I just heard that Verizon is appealing the verdict. You know that the RIAA will not let it go. The RIAA would have to sue each one of us who use the net and still it wouldn't stop us.
Even if they encoded the cds with something that stopped us from ripping our cds, we would find ways for going around or through the encription. Or we could just play it on a cd player and record it through the computer.

my philosophy is...

if there is a lock
there has to be a key to open it

or atleast a lockpick

Very good theory, eviltechie. And also true. Just look at all the work arounds for many programs and encription techniques.

if man put it together, man can take it apart.

or atleast my sledge hammer can take it apart!
lol
j/k

anyways
perhaps this SQL server virus will effect the whole leaching network?
so does this hint that RIAA is behind this??
lol
im just linking whatever info i have even if it makes little sense

That is very interesting. You never know what these companies would do to stop us from downloading the music from the net. They might just put a virus.