A Revolution is the Solution
i agree PG,
what is an illegal file where are they who has them who is sharing them it seems that most p2p progs have one purpose and thats to share so called illegal files
a case in point is so called Shareware, if it 1 guy/gal working in a back room spending hours/days years to assemble Code and then putting it out on the web asking people to donate then i say good on them
the thing is most sharware is now Commercial beta test stuff that mean not only do you pay and keep paying but you end up doing the error reporting they should have done in the first place :-/
End of somewhat off topic Rant 
WOW you can tell its the holidays
Can't you just? :P
Maybe I need to post something spectacular and liven things up.
Hmm....
/ contemplates drawing a stick man in MSPaint
Nooooooooo no stick men ....... just Bananas 
Are there people monitoring the transfer of torrents, maybe with a mind to enforsing anti-piracy laws?
If so... and if these, um, 'movie-trojans' become more common... I imagine it would become tricky to remotely distinguish the willing distributers/downloaders of pirated film from the infected people.
Testing out a smokescreen effect, maybe?
'The virus did it' might be a lame excuse, but if it stops the fuz seizing your computer in the first place...
a smokescreen effect is possible
but i cant see that Stopping the police seizing your computer
all they need is a valid Excuse and a court Order :-/
That is if they ever get around to it...
I think that the media companies are really slowplaying this, (They could be suing millions at once if they wanted to , really), because if they play too hard, you get the backlash. And the tech advisors who will be at the front of the backlash will show next to no mercy.
I wouldn't be surprised to see copyright cut down to 5+5. Five years, then an additional five if the content is in wide distribution.
Karmakin
you have a very valid point what is copyright? and why is it for so many years ?
in certain Countries Work product is protected and we have seen how the lawyers have twisted that.
i think changing the copyright rules will simply make the lawyers Richer
:-/
"i cant see that Stopping the police seizing your computer "
If it becomes the case that A% of all detected pirate bit-torrent traffic is due to malware, and only a% due to intentianal distribution/downloading, then I doubt that anyone would be investigated purely on the grounds that their computer was logged distributing or downloading pirated bit-torrents.
I've heard that this is unfortunately the case with paedophilia in the UK... due to the number of malware that contact russian porn sites, no-one is investigated purely because their computer was detected connecting to a kiddie-porn site (although I couldnt find a source for this).
So, maybe if the malware becomes common enough it may allow the bit-torrent pirates to operate in relative safety?
The point is, that there is now the excuse of "it was an rootkit doing it! Not ME!"
Then, the computer jockeys at the MPAA or RIAA have to go through the trouble of disassembling what is in your computer, and proving you do not have any rootkits in your computer.
Said thing is impossible to do, since the stated purpose of a rootkit is to stay hidden.
Gives everyone a pre-made out, unless the drastically change operating systems to make rootkit-like activities impossible.
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