I don' t think the little guy is at risk yet, however it IS currently illegal to share (without profit) more than $1,000 worth of copyrighted material every six months.

I don't know anything about BayTSP, but I don't think it's a fly-by-night operation:

"BayTSP tracks for the FBI the global carriage of kiddy porn. When a big child pornography bust takes place, it is generally on the basis of evidence gathered by BayTSP. "

"Dmitry Sklyarov [was] arrested at the 2001 DefCon security conference in Las Vegas for violating the DMCA by showing how to circumvent copy protection in Adobe's eBook software. The arrest was made on information supplied by BayTSP."


The "according to Ishikawa" quote regarding the FBI didn't really strike me as questionable. It seems to be the author making it clear that it's hearsay as opposed to a quote from the FBI. I assume the FBI has many theories about terrorist activities, and probably has told BayTSP "to look out for specific things."


I'm not being an alarmist, I just thought this was interesting especially to people who are, in fact, breaking the law.