9th April 2009, 12:20 PM
Um, how would they know what's legal or illegal? This is a simpler way of asking how the heck they would ever be able to moniter everyone on the frickin' internet.
It's like someone read 1984 and not only didn't realize that the sheer logistics would render it impossible, but thought it would be a good idea.
The best method is still to target the distributers, not the downloaders. That's something that would be far more feasible. Heck they would be far more capable of tracing massive uploads and being reasonably sure something may be going on than tracing massive downloads which could be anything from WOW to a remake of King's Quest.
Also they smell.
It's like someone read 1984 and not only didn't realize that the sheer logistics would render it impossible, but thought it would be a good idea.
The best method is still to target the distributers, not the downloaders. That's something that would be far more feasible. Heck they would be far more capable of tracing massive uploads and being reasonably sure something may be going on than tracing massive downloads which could be anything from WOW to a remake of King's Quest.
Also they smell.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)