Thursday, June 05, 2008

Jimminy Prentice & Friends

Paging Jimminy Prentice. These are the malicious and inept fools that you're DMCA enriched legislation is designed to serve. The following courtesy of teh BoingBoing.

In two separate studies in August of 2007 and May of this year, the researchers set out to examine who was participating in BitTorrent file-sharing networks and what they were sharing. The researchers introduced software agents into these networks to monitor their traffic. Even though those software agents did not download any files, the researchers say they received over 400 take-down requests accusing them of participating in the downloads.


Using that sort of due diligence, I can now recommend that anyone that has ever been in a motor vehicle be issued a speeding ticket.

In their report, the researchers also demonstrate a way to manipulate I.P. addresses so that another user appears responsible for the file-sharing.

An inanimate object could also get the blame. The researchers rigged the software agents to implicate three laserjet printers, which were then accused in takedown letters by the M.P.A.A. of downloading copies of “Iron Man” and the latest Indiana Jones film.


My toaster is downloading your blockbuster. That should play out wonderfully in court, "Your Honour, I'd like to call the Lexmark E330 to the stand." Jeeziz. They don't have a frickin' clue. Funny how these corporate jackals don't have the where with all to realize that the address is inactive, let alone attached to an inanimate object, but oddly enough they can pin point the big box office hit that is being "infringed". But hey, that printer thing was just a fishing mistake, they actually wanted to intimidate and sue some children. Well, that makes all the difference, sign our country up for some of that abusive idiocy. Who needs libraries and schools, artists and culture... mere details, collateral damage on the path to happy conglomeration.

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