This story from the Herald, about copyright interests reaching new heights of privacy abuse seems to be missing a few key facts. What is this software they’re using to track personal searches? Does it really work like the story says? And who the hell do these people think they are?
It’s quite an alarming piece about NZ FACT again showing total disregard for the boundaries of privacy, and generally behaving like a law unto themselves. It looks like the NZ judiciary has died and made NZ FACT judge, jury and executioner, basically.
Now NZ FACT claims to have some sort of pirate tracking program that can work out who is looking for what, and based on that, prosecute people. Linked to the story is NZ FACT’s statement about what the program is, and Tony Eaton says:
The proprietary content filtering system [PCFS] is basically a search engine that searches the search engines – that is all it does, it does not have access to anyone’s computer, therefore it is not and cannot be spyware or a virus. The PCFS uses an intelligent system similar to Google. It uses a ’series of bots’ that are designed to seek out material relating to ‘peer 2 peer’ file sharing. So for example if someone in New Zealand keyed ‘Chicken Little’ into Google and requested to download the movie using Bit Torrent – the PCFS which is searching the search engines may detect that google search and request, it would then log the IP number and the download request.
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Honestly What idiot uses google to search for illegal torrents??? That’s like googling “Where do I buy illegal weapons in my city”??
Seriously. I think all competant p2p suers will avoid this leaving a small margin unsafe.
Something to add…use a web proxy if you do actually use google for that.
This has NOT been proven in a court of law! Until I see them win a case based solely on this information I do not think there is really much reason to worry.
I think a judge will require much more info than a google search!