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Old June 29th, 2002
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Originally posted by Unregistered

Would it be legal to set up a web site that tracks users reported to be sharing "bogus" files, like those people who record their own band's song but name it something popular?
It would be legal, but you'd have to be careful. For example, if it was the FBI out there harvesting IP addresses of people illegally distributing copyrighted materials and you set up a site listing the IP addresses they were at telling people to block them, it could come back on you as obstruction of justice charges. (****... how exactly did I word those posts again...)

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"they're evaluating other technologies that would scramble search queries"
Now we know where those queries are coming from, see above for bogus IPs. Aren't they disrupting a computer network? Isn't that illegal under THEIR current law? DMCA?
Should we start logging this activity?
They're working on ways around this too. Read the article at http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939333.html?tag=fd_top and visit the thread about it at http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=12864

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"Those countermeasures could cross 'into a gray area as far as legality,' admits another record executive"
Gray? Isn't sharing for NO PROFIT gray? Wasn't copyright created for people making a PROFIT from selling bogus CDs? They used to say the damage was "customers get a low quality product"?
Copyright laws have been around a lot longer than CDs

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"electronic countermeasures intended to frustrate the 18.7 million consumers"
Frustrate your customers, current or future, now there's a smart new marketing concept.
Somehow this will continue to elude them, I'm sure of it.

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"It's clearly intended to disrupt the file-sharing network"
Let's re-word that to DAMAGE the network and those who are using it, and thus it's illegal, plain and simple, with or without DCMA or "congress approval". Damage is common law and we never gave the government authority to license people to damage other people.
Well, if they get the-powers-that-be to see p2p networks as just another fencing operation then the damage will rain. Ever see what cops do to a house when they serve a search warrenty? It's all kinds of damage.

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I have a technology for them that's easy to do:
They should LOWER THEIR PRICE so low no one will want to bother with sharing networks. Never mind, too simple.
This will continue to elude them as well.
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