One Step Closer to Surveillance Society

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The IFPI have released a program which will snoop through your entire PC, and remove, block or otherwise disable anything to do with filesharing. It also reports back on any content that is "copyright theft" (something they repeatedly use in the wrong context) and gives the user the option of deleting that too.

So what happened to using filesharing to transfer completely legal content? What if I made an awesome track, and I put it on a filesharing network right now? My audience could be destroyed. Similarly, as Boing Boing pointed out, it's completely legal to swap millions of Creative Commons files over filesharing networks.

Ugh, society disgusts me, this kind of oppression and corporate dictatorship needs to end soon.
 
We'll have no freedom soon :(

I always download demos/movies of game over bit torrent. It's so much faster. This would stop that :(
 
so does this only work if you've installed it in your computer? Or is it like a program which just installs itself without permission?
 
Something like this has been around for awhile.
BTW: That program is meant to be used in a buisness enviroment, where internet filesharing has no place anyway.
And it's completly opt-in for home users. You have to DL and install it yourself.

I wouldent get all huffy-puffy about something like this.
 
Disgraceful. ;(

Now the real bastard would be if it had viral properties, and installd itself on everybody's computer.
 
not as bad as it could be...

It is free, voluntary and for private use only and does not tip-off any anti-piracy organisations.
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dekstar said:
so does this only work if you've installed it in your computer? Or is it like a program which just installs itself without permission?
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They will probably get DOS-ed to damnation and legally get pwned.
 
Beerdude26 said:
They will probably get DOS-ed to damnation and legally get pwned.
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Getting DOSed is easily avoidable now a days if you know what your doing.
 
WhiteZero said:
Getting DOSed is easily avoidable nowadays if you know what your doing.
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But getting your database servers blown up by some crazy nutter isn't so easily avoidable :naughty:
 
WhiteZero said:
Something like this has been around for awhile.
BTW: That program is meant to be used in a buisness enviroment, where internet filesharing has no place anyway.
And it's completly opt-in for home users. You have to DL and install it yourself.

I wouldent get all huffy-puffy about something like this.
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And why not? It's being distributed on CD all over Europe. How many ignorant people will install and run it if it's packaged with their AOL CD or what have you? Not just that, but it's annihilating P2P software regardless of what it's being used for, and destroying files they think are IP theft. How do they define that, when it's an automated piece of software doing it?
 
Kangy said:
And why not? It's being distributed on CD all over Europe. How many ignorant people will install and run it if it's packaged with their AOL CD or what have you? Not just that, but it's annihilating P2P software regardless of what it's being used for, and destroying files they think are IP theft. How do they define that, when it's an automated piece of software doing it?
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Distributed on CD how? Bundled with what?
Besides it has a whole process you need to go through to install and run the thing. So people will now exactly what their doing. Also, it detects stuff like LimeWire and Kazaa, probably not non-filesharing network P2P clients used for business and personal use.

Once again, it's all opt-in and mainly meant for business and home users concerned about getting sued.
No one is going to make you use it. Calm down.
Maybe a few kids Parents will make them run it. Big friggen deal, they probably paid for the PC and internet anyway.

This has nothing to do with "Surveillancing Society" or "Corporate Dictatorship". Stop blowing it out of proportion.
 
Did you read the article? It stated it'd be on CD all over Europe. Sure, nobody's forcing them to use it, but it hardly explains anything about P2P networking, other than that it needs to remove the software associated with it.
 
Kangy said:
Did you read the article? It stated it'd be on CD all over Europe. Sure, nobody's forcing them to use it, but it hardly explains anything about P2P networking, other than that it needs to remove the software associated with it.
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People who download Kazaa and whatnot know why they downloaded and installed it.
When this program tries to tell them it wants to uninstall it, they can easily choose not to.

If a few ignorant people loose their Kazaa it's nothing to get upset about since they were probably using it for illegal purposes anyway, which is what this application is meant for.
Also, if their just mailing it out to people, why would you just randomly want to run whatever is on it? Only the kind of people that open every attachment they get in their email would run this without knowing what it is first.

Note to self, mail CDs with keyloggers to people in the Europe cuz their dumb enough to run them. /end sarcasim

*using Kazaa as an example
 
anyone who knows anything about computers, will obviously be smart enough to know how to get rid of this program, and not get it in the first place.
 
WhiteZero said:
People who download Kazaa and whatnot know why they downloaded and installed it.
When this program tries to tell them it wants to uninstall it, they can easily choose not to.

If a few ignorant people loose their Kazaa it's nothing to get upset about since they were probably using it for illegal purposes anyway, which is what this application is meant for.


*using Kazaa as an example
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Bullshit, when faced with some silly foreword about P2P sharing and lawsuits, most ignorant folk will run the program, and they will uninstall.

And how is that fair? Druggies use spoons all the time, but many more use it for legal purposes. What would you do, remove all spoons because people might be using them to do drugs?
 
Kangy said:
Bullshit, when faced with some silly foreword about P2P sharing and lawsuits, most ignorant folk will run the program, and they will uninstall.
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Ummm... if people want to get rid of their filesharing programs because their scared that they'll get sued, then their perfectly allowed to.

The fact that individuals and businesses get sued for filesharing isn't silly at all. It's real life.
And how is that fair? Druggies use spoons all the time, but many more use it for legal purposes. What would you do, remove all spoons because people might be using them to do drugs?
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Good job taking it out of context, since the program wouldent remove programs that arent extreemly popular for illegal filesharing.

P2P Filesharing isn't going to die any time soon and certainly not from something like this.
 
Kangy said:
And how is that fair? Druggies use spoons all the time, but many more use it for legal purposes. What would you do, remove all spoons because people might be using them to do drugs?
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Kangy, no-one's forcing anyone to get rid of their spoons. Or use the software. If the software is being distributed, so much the creepier but it does very little to affect the average LW user.
 
P2P software, should be legal.

I dont think it can ever be stopped, without a massive clampdown by the internet police.
 
P2P Software is legal.
Just when everyone uses it for illegal purposes it gets shut down.
 
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