RIAA to go after individual media downloaders very shortly - Is this wise?

[Testy]

Well, for now I think it’s a good risk to go with usenet. Having said that. I’m D/Ling Freenet now. S
Still, how anonymous is Freenet in the face of a search warrant? I’m trying to figure that out at the moment.

Thanks.

Testy

[Testy]

Just looking through the docs for Freenet regarding key distribution. It looks like the publisher has to send the key through email, remailers, whatever. If someone is NOT using a remailer, doesn’t this trash the anonymity feature? Maybe I’m missing something here.

Thanks

Testy

[InquisitiveIdiot]

how anonymous is Freenet in the face of a search warrant?

Very.

1. Everything is encrypted. Everything. Even the HD space you donate to freenet. This comes in handy later.

2. No one but the nodes you are connected to knows your IP address. So if you download something, unless you are unfortunate enough to land right next to an RIAA node, they’ll never find you.

3. There’s no way of telling if a request coming from a node originated at that node. So even if you are right next to an RIAA node, they can’t say that you were the pirate. After all, you have no control over what goes through your node. Nor can you monitor it, because it’s all encrypted. So they can’t really pin anything on you, short of getting a warrant and physically searching your computer.

4. Freenet cannot be shut down. Even if every download site was shut down, freenet has the capability to spread without any central repository. The only way to shut it down would be to shut down every node connected to it.

Fun stuff. Course, as I said before, there is a price in reliability and latency. But hey, let moore’s law worry about that.

[jeevmon]

*Originally posted by Blalron *
**This is so completely out of proportion (by a ratio of 150,000 to 1 by my estimate) with any possible financial loss by the RIAA that I have little doubt it would get struck down on appeal. **

Nope .

[Testy]

Thanks for that. I’m just wondering what would/could happen if I announced via hotmail or the like, “Tested biological weapons design data available using key X”

Obviously, announcing something like that would give an attacker a lot of incentive to find out where it came from. 160 bit Yarrow seems to be good crypto but what ELSE could an attacker do? Traffic analysis? I wish they had the interface to mixmaster completed, this business of passing the keys back and forth in the clear seems to invallidate the basic anonymity of the thing.

Thanks.

Testy

[Hagakure]

This may be a stupid contribution, but isn’t the US a democracy? Surely, If the majority of people were found to be pro-file share (as they most likely will, as soon as todays 14 year olds become of voting age) then wont, as a democracy, the laws HAVE to be changed to represent this?

[dal_timgar]

Phillips came out with the PASC system years ago which used 4 to 1 compression and STEREOPHILE said it passed as CD quality. Sony has an ATRAC system which used 5 to 1 and was good but imperfect.

I checked out the PASC system at a HI-Fi show and it sounded fine but it recorded on tape. Who wants digital sound on tape?

What I read about MP3 says they are mostly using 10 to 1 compression to download. I haven’t tried it, I don’t mind recording my CDs to cassette tape for my Panasonic portable cassette.

I used to repair 8-tracks back in the 70’s and hated them. I can’t understand how anyone could listen to that crap. Wow and flutter constantly. We need to promote audio elitism. LOL

How many different types of memory cartridges are there for MP3 players? At least cassettes are all the same size. And cheap.

Dal Timgar

[Ms2001]

*Originally posted by Testy *
**Thanks for that. I’m just wondering what would/could happen if I announced via hotmail or the like, “Tested biological weapons design data available using key X”

Obviously, announcing something like that would give an attacker a lot of incentive to find out where it came from.**

Well, if you announced it via Hotmail, the Powers That Be would certainly be able to trace you back through Hotmail, unless you were very careful and used a lot of remailers.

But frankly, there’s already enough inflammatory material on Freenet to provide an incentive to trace it. Questionable pornography, internal Scientology documents, and most recently, several descriptions of alleged murders. (The murder files actually started as a test for Freenet’s anonymity - the first one was an admitted fake. One can only hope the rest are fake too.)

[Testy]

Thank you for that, it’s worth knowing. On the other hand, the questionable porn, $cientology docs and maybe the murders as well, aren’t important enough for a national government to dedicate substantial resources to catching you. (NSA type people) I haven’t seen “the murder files,” I’ll have to look around.

Thanks again.

Testy

[Nomadic_One]

The analogy is exactly what itll be like. Someone will figure out what IP the RIAA is using to scan the net, and when that IP is logged on, no one will search, as soon as that IP logs off, everyone will continue to share.

Im not an expert, but it doesnt really work like that man.

[Ms2001]

Originally posted by Testy
Thank you for that, it’s worth knowing. On the other hand, the questionable porn, $cientology docs and maybe the murders as well, aren’t important enough for a national government to dedicate substantial resources to catching you. (NSA type people) I haven’t seen “the murder files,” I’ll have to look around.

Well, maybe the government wouldn’t care, but you can be sure the Co$ is trying their best to track down the people who posted those Scientology documents.

Here’s the key for an index page listing some of the “murder” sites: SSK@-w495UL3mfSlWC2c~nRAuG2fAWwPAgM/TFEE//catmurder.html

[Testy]

Thanks, I’ll look them up tonght. I’ve heard that the Co$ people are fairly vicious with lawsuits and possibly just plain vicious. I doubt they have any serious cryptographers on staff or supercomputers in the basement though. S

All the best.

Testy