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[Will the day come when PS will be required to log downloaders and make those available? Maybe, but I doubt it will be a secret thing.
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I sure hope that day never comes
Everyone should be entitled to have a least a little dignity and privacy.
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An again keep in mind that there are 1000s of Usenet servers out there all over the world.
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Well ,there were zillions of Kazaa users as well , yet somehow they got some of them to their knees and the rest of them got a little scared.
The fun thing is , as long nothing happens , everyone is happy.
But the moment someone in the happy trustworthy community gets arrested ; wether that is IRC , Usenet or a Tupperware party at your neighbour ; everyone gets a little scared and nobody will help you , besides the people who already sold their souls to the highest bidders. Otherwise known as laywers. (Please don't sue me Phil !
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Sure.. they don't surprise me when someone i have never heard of and is thousands of mile away from me gets arrested for illegally downloading the hillbilly themesong on mp3.
But if my neighbour gets caught and spents a couple of days in jail.. damn right that i'm going to be paranoid and not download mp3's anymore.
And all those trusted "friends" in your happy community have suddenly dissapeared. Easy come .. Easy go.
Luckily FUD works both ways , so some people really have the authority to step up and fight for " the cause " (dangerous words in these times of terrorism .. i know) , but unfortunately most of the accused ones have very little money.
I suspect two reasons on why usenet hasn't been raided by the feds yet :
1 - They have no idea what usenet is or how to use it to their advantage.
2 - It's way too costly to track a user down , sue him and get money from him. Subreasons being that the one being sued has no money to get
It took them some time to get used to Kazaa. They can do the same with Usenet all over the world.
But i pray they're raiding Tupperware sellers first