smokingbevel
March 1st, 2004, 02:02 PM
Tomorrow's P2P Filesharing and The Piracy Pin
This is this idiot's abbreviated summation of a series of statements and their conclusions.
This series may be so blatantly obvious to non-idiots, that it may be included in a handbook or guide elsewhere.
1. Absolute identity anonymity on a network is rare.
2. The process by which anonymity is dissolved may be corporately impractical or resource heavy for a sum of identities.
3. An identity which perceives a static informational "tag", may be more decisively restrictive in its personal "tag-bound" activities.
4. To prohibit copyright infringement, and uphold incorporated interests, tag and bind resource sharing mechanisms securely with sharing identities' personal information.
Here, for simplicity, we coin the sloppy term "Piracy Pin". (advocate: Anti-Piracy Pin, opposition: Anti-Privacy Pin).
"Share all manner of media with billions of users for free!!!"
"It's perfectly legal."
"Please provide a valid credit card number..."
"...all outgoing transactions are logged under your PIN..."
"...to select the source user of a downloaded file..."
"...click here to report any download which violates the terms of agreement..."
"Any opponent of this measure is only admitting outright support for or involvement in illegal activities."
"The authorities may have a PIN log list a mile long linking Senator V. to child pornography chains."
"Frankly, I wouldn't think any user would be so naive as to think illegal activity occurs on any service that they submitted account information to."
5. Any individual which knowningly subverts or undermines an existing Anti-Privacy measure or device, may be found guilty of theft by association.
"Is an album well worth $30.00 in Australia?"
"Want to point a finger at the freelancing developers who modify file-sharing applications to permit anonymity and label them as thieves?"
"How about trusting those very same people with the application that accesses your account information?"
"Don't care about privacy?"
"Please provide a valid credit card number...tomorrow is clean and bright with sunshine"
This is this idiot's abbreviated summation of a series of statements and their conclusions.
This series may be so blatantly obvious to non-idiots, that it may be included in a handbook or guide elsewhere.
1. Absolute identity anonymity on a network is rare.
2. The process by which anonymity is dissolved may be corporately impractical or resource heavy for a sum of identities.
3. An identity which perceives a static informational "tag", may be more decisively restrictive in its personal "tag-bound" activities.
4. To prohibit copyright infringement, and uphold incorporated interests, tag and bind resource sharing mechanisms securely with sharing identities' personal information.
Here, for simplicity, we coin the sloppy term "Piracy Pin". (advocate: Anti-Piracy Pin, opposition: Anti-Privacy Pin).
"Share all manner of media with billions of users for free!!!"
"It's perfectly legal."
"Please provide a valid credit card number..."
"...all outgoing transactions are logged under your PIN..."
"...to select the source user of a downloaded file..."
"...click here to report any download which violates the terms of agreement..."
"Any opponent of this measure is only admitting outright support for or involvement in illegal activities."
"The authorities may have a PIN log list a mile long linking Senator V. to child pornography chains."
"Frankly, I wouldn't think any user would be so naive as to think illegal activity occurs on any service that they submitted account information to."
5. Any individual which knowningly subverts or undermines an existing Anti-Privacy measure or device, may be found guilty of theft by association.
"Is an album well worth $30.00 in Australia?"
"Want to point a finger at the freelancing developers who modify file-sharing applications to permit anonymity and label them as thieves?"
"How about trusting those very same people with the application that accesses your account information?"
"Don't care about privacy?"
"Please provide a valid credit card number...tomorrow is clean and bright with sunshine"