Quote from piezoe:
I suspect that the real problem is that these up-download services like Kim dot com are shielding the real perpetrators of copyright infringement from prosecution by making it very difficult if not impossible to identify those who have illegally shared copyrighted material.
If you don't know, and can't find out, who illegally shared your copyrighted material, how is it possible to prosecute them? I think that is very likely what lies at the bottom of this issue.
Quote from piezoe:
Thanks so much for posting the above. Below is a link to a related, extremely interesting interview that deserves wide distribution!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvrRaeHD5TE&feature=relmfu
I would think that this interview may not stay up long, so it is best to view it soon.
Quote from dcvtss:
These services are for people who are not savvy, there are many other ways to share files with real anonymity, which these services do NOT provide. The fact is the sharers, hackers and black hats will always be ahead of the "authorities" and white hats simply because that's where the best talent goes. The file sharing genie is out of the bottle and despite the efforts of the entrenched interests that oppose it to implement a more and more draconian internet I don't think it's going back in the bottle.
Unfortunately, the war for the web (not the entirety of the internet) in general is just about won by the gigantic monied interests already. A major victory for them was the creation of the new "open" top level domains (TLD's). This allows the large players to have their own domains, for example the apple store becomes http://store.apple - this will have the effect of pushing only corporate sites to the top of the search results for anything relating to them, ensures that their marketing-speak and PR bullshit drowns anything independent out. Think of the effect of this when it comes to news, sites like cnn, fox news, new york times, etc will dominate search results even more than they do now. I can see it now, .com becomes relgated to local plumbers and increasingly irrelevant. Incidentally, the fee for applying for one of these new domains is $185k dollars - http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/13/icann-applicants-for-new-tlds-revealed-the-full-list/.
In my opinion another inevitable step will be the implementation of full blown two factor PKI for interacting with your bank or making any other financial transaction on the web, the reason for this will be the continued hacking and ID theft incidents befalling the financial and retail sectors. My guess is this will be implemented through the state DMV's but the details aren't as important as the end result - a real physical identity that will have to be used when online. Real world examples of this already exist in the US government space and in large companies - http://www.cac.mil/common-access-card/.
Quote from piezoe:
I suspect that the real problem is that these up-download services like Kim dot com are shielding the real perpetrators of copyright infringement from prosecution by making it very difficult if not impossible to identify those who have illegally shared copyrighted material.
If you don't know, and can't find out, who illegally shared your copyrighted material, how is it possible to prosecute them? I think that is very likely what lies at the bottom of this issue.
Quote from marketsurfer:
Megaupload provided open access to any copyright owner to remove their material--- yet very few did.
FBI are the soldiers of the Mafia? whoops, I mean USA,Quote from piezoe:
dcvtss says that this New Zealand file sharing site does not maintain anonymity so those who are doing something illegal can be tracked down and prosecuted. So why is the FBI going after this guy? What law has he broken? We only have one side at this point, but it isn't clear he has broken any law from what we know so far. Frankly, this whole business of the FBI chasing after this guy in New Zealand is a little disturbing.