They are the only people who would really know that it happened. The guys in the boardroom wouldn’t even know what happened or what the equipment did. The phone companies aren’t giving copies of tapes or CDs, NSA is wired into their system.
I’ve known of at least one case where, while “helping” with a problem, a local slipped a wireless router into a neighbor’s cable broadband connection. The owner of the computer was rather surprised to learn he was sharing his connection with the world.
All you have to do is trace the equipment to figure out who is involved.
It’s a totally different process for cellular or cable companies and you can’t buy what is necessary off the shelf.
]]>You have to wonder how long it will take for people to figure out that this “war” on listeners costs more than it brings in to the record companies.
]]>The recording industry has managed to get its issue in front of the public as if the latter’s lives depended on stopping all piracy, as if the world depended on whether the industry made merely outrageous profits as it does now, or obscene profits as it might be able to do with the threat of jail time for minor pirates. I don’t pirate media, file-share, or condone any of that, but c’mon, it’s not an earth-shattering issue. Punishment for individuals who commit these acts non-entrepreneurially should be the retail price of the material they shared, plus a fine about the same as, or less than, a parking ticket.
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I read that too, Steve, probably in a CNet article about the changes in the EU law. The RIAA et al. are on a fishing expedition and they want to get information without paying for it. The problem they have is that if they do back tracing they risk violating hacking laws. How long will it take them to understand that their attitude is one of the reasons people don’t want to buy CDs. Who wants to deal with anyone who considers you a criminal for being connected to the Internet.
]]>I can’t find the link at the moment, but I read on some blog yesterday that in the EU, the entertainment industries are pressing the legislature to extend the use of data mining from terrorism investigations to searches for CD/DVD pirates. How far can this go? Too far, I’m certain… and commercial interests will press for abuses we haven’t even dreamed of yet.
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