Apr 18, 2008 06:56PM GMT
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Politics - United States
Should the US spend more than $1 BILLION dollars of tax payer money to monitor P2P traffic for illegal files?
A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to make that happen.READ THE REST
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Answered No. Politicians are evil.
so that is what they say huh? well i dont think that 1 Billion spent on this effort is worth it... new ways to get around it will be instituted... always does... besides.. it is the gov't trying to keep big business happy... also... 1 billion would be alot better served if used for other more important and pressing issues in the world..... -
Answered No. Politicians are evil.
What a waste of tax dollars, let the software manufacturers burden the expense and turn the info over to the police for prosecution, I bet you will find the SW mfg won't be so interested in monitoring P2P traffic any longer either.
First of all, it's very difficult to determine what the contents of a file is merely from it's name, files are commonly mislabelled.
Secondly, just because someone downloads such a file doesn't mean they had any interest in it's content. They might have made a mistake, been after something else, or downloaded something poorly labelled. Also is the problem of identifying someone by an IP address, these days with NAT multiple people can share an IP
address. In addition if someone has a wireless network.., if hacked or unsecured, that would be the preferred way of a clever pedophile to try and get child porn.
Thirdly, and most importantly. It is absurd in a democracy that someone can be arrested merely for watching a video or a picture. They should go after the people making the videos, they are committing the child abuse. Even child abuse doesn't
give the government an excuse to act like a totalitarian state and decide it has a right to censor things on the internet! -
Follow the money. Who gets paid this $1,000,000,000 for building and running this "service"? Dollars to doughnuts it's either some buddy of Biden's, someone who's contributed all kinds of cash to his elections, or someone he has a monetary relationship with (i.e. stocks, profit sharing, etc)
Biden is a crook dressed in a white suit.
Answered Undecided
Since P2P files deal mainly with music, etc. I say if the music industry or the wealthy entertainers want this practice stopped, they should be paying to monitor it. Why should we foot the bill to make them wealthier?