ISPs To Scan Every File

[HaKKa_Few]

Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit

timdogg writes
"Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers. The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering."

wow sniff sniff, no more pirating

TeamHaKKa will prevail. ;D

[KAZ_Few]

why don'tthey give up and start selling all the pirated stuff at reasonable prices ?
the reason i do it is becuase i can't afford the full price to help some musician with six allamonoy payments or his drug habits

[Bubbles_Few]

Great point Kaz. I remember seeing Bill Gates on TV way back when he was only worth 7 billion. I remember the story said you'd have to make over 2.5 million every day of your life for 75 years to equal him back then. And yet there he was complaining about people pirating Word, while I was a struggling writer barely making ends meet. His argument made perfect sense. He should have been worth even MORE, and I should have stopped writing and became a ditch digger.

Making my living off of royalties, I try to pay for all I can. And if I do pirate something, as soon as I can afford it I buy what I pirated. But I can't help but imagine a world where corporations and patents actually exist for what they literally are supposed to exist for, which is the public good. Just take one moment to imagine a world where money wasn't the motivator. Where people did things because they made the world better.

We have enough food, we just don't share it with those that need it. In many cases, we have the medicine, we just don't share it with those that need it. (Does anyone really think we'd let 30,000 Germans, Scots or Japanese to starve to death every single day?) And in the case of the banks, if they can pay half a BILLION dollar bonuses, they clearly had enough to help people keep their homes. Instead, one guy takes all the loot and then worries about the security of his home, or about people kidnapping his kids. Celebrities work their assess off to be famous and then wear dark glasses so no one will recognize them. It's like Bukowski said, it's all a cage with golden bars.

The problem isn't a shortage of resources, it's our allotment of them. All we've done is rename "kings and serfs," into "CEO's and employees."

I've owned businesses since I was 16. I've made a lot of money in my life and I've lived very well. But to be honest, I'm broke now and I'm no less happy than I was before. I used to worry about my fancy cars, but no one really wants to hurt my smart car. They might joke about it, but it's never been keyed.

So these days I'm more focused on doing things that bring peace and happiness into my life, rather than more money. I never thought I'd say it, but I really do seem better off when others around me are doing about as well as I am. When that's the case, we all seem to focus more on making the pie bigger, rather than on how big our individual slice is.

My new production company is based on a couple simple axioms:

Focus on the work, not the financial result. Do something you'd do even if you didn't need to work, and do it with people you'd hang around with even if you didn't work with them.

peace. bubs