Obviously if this becomes law in the US, Apple will be forced to manufacture TCPA-compliant computers for the US market. What I find even more frightening is that this is taking place in a country where people will march in the streets against, say, motorcycle helmet laws as an infringement of personal freedom.

I can already see a 1984-ish underground with rickety old OS 9 Macs and Pentium 3 boxes...

Here in Australia we have a government that considers toadying to the USA a matter of pride (we just can't wait to start bombing Iraq) and we have a communications minister who has trouble distinguishing a PC from a TV (for all the wrong reasons) so we'll be trying to get to the head of the line for PC fascism compliance (we already inhibit broadband use by putting in pace 'pay for data transfer fees' that mean you can use up your monthly 300 gig allocation in 30 minutes after which you pay punitive 'excess' fees) - so - I'm at a loss really I'll happily switch to macs if it means a year or two longer of using the internet the way I have/want to - but - here too - people will march in the streets to protect their right to have huge (pedestrian killing) 'bull-bars' mounted on their cars but when it comes to this they'll accept the line that 'this is good for you but bad for those evil internet pirates'

its all extremely irritating and I really don't see a viable/effective stance to adopt to oppose it

sad_mad_(soon to be obsolete)_vlad

Gee thanks for the tip to all husbands on the forum and LW on how to be "sneaky" on LW

LMAO

SHAME SHAME SHAME

We are ONTO you

Emmey

Back to the original impetus behind the first posting (which apparently overtaxed the cognitive powers of the poster immediately above): the German porno dialers also use sneaky spam -- without telltale html -- trying to get the recipient to download one of these dialers. I got one just the other day (relayed through an open proxy in Brazil) inviting me to visit one of their sites.

Back to the original impetus behind the first posting (which apparently overtaxed the cognitive powers of the poster immediately above):

Do NOT take life so seriously dude.
I was kidding...which overtaxed your humor

Emmey

I am not the same unregistered who replyed earlier to this thread...but I would like to say "you are not the only one" I also d/l this same file but luckly did not completely install it. Being new also to p2p I didn't catch the size until it was too late! Luckly I only installed all this nioce "links" to these sites which might I add took me a whole hr to remove from my pc.....arguh! Afterwards, I learned my lesson very well and check everything b4 I d/l or install it! This may I add is a very good thread for those newbies to p2p/file sharing to learn to watch out for this sort of thing and also how to correct it if they do happen to run into this situation

If you want Win32 XP-Pro, you should buy it for 200$. If your son wants 20$ worth of music, he should buy that to. But in that universe, and in that universe only; you have a right to complain about filthy internet-worms with porn embedded.
In this one, you should have kept your mouth shut, and dealth with the problem by your own account.

If I steal a car, and the tire is flat, I don't go to round advertising it. I shut up and move on.

btw: If somebody "uploads" a file (from your point of view): It's allready been downloaded by you (or your sanctamonious son).

I recently had a similar situation happen to me. I was looking for a audio file & got a search result that matched my search description, but instead of a mp3 file, it was a zip file. I made the mistake of unzipping & opening it ( after doing a virus scan ). It unzipped into 2 files ( one of the files was named "open me first" )
, & the other "I believe" was named _x-finder.exe . If you see these files, don't open them, DELETE THEM!!! Although they are not seen as viruses, they will install a program that takes you out to porn sites & will seemingly register your e-mail account with these sites.

I'm not going to get into the right or wrong of file sharing. People have been copying songs as far back as I can remember.

This zip file was obviously planted to discourage file sharing, but I'm still on LimeWire.

Win XP Pro is not the only download that's corrupted. ...

On 9/2/02 I was able to download a bogus zip file which was supposed to be a Harry Potter audio file. Instead it was a file that unzipped to 2 exe files. The 1st file was named " CLICK-ME- FIRST.exe", the 2nd was named "setup.exe". If you open these files, you'll wind up with a porn-finding utility on your system. (none of these files will show up as a virus, but they may as well be).

As of 9/2/02 the ip address sharing this & other suspect zip files is 66.250.52.242.

Will this individual be sharing from this same address tomorrow?
Who knows? My question to you is - if there is a user on the network that is spreading distructive files, what can be done to stop it? Or is there a way to warn other users?

Just put him in your banned ip slot..
One way to find people like this, throwing corrupted files on the net is to search for ANYTHING (i do not mean the word anything but replace it with a word you like), and note all the 28K .mpg .asf .jpg .mp3 .html .vbs hits that are reported.
Some klients reports hits just for fun and points the hits to webservers in order to generate traffic. Just ban the MF from your client and he won't pollute you any more.

As for this perticular one, he has been on the net for a while now, polluting like a madman. Probably just some kind of lame *** 14-year-old kid being a wise-guy. Or maybe an important part in an international conspiricy where the americans aim to dominate thought all over the planet and start colonizing other starsystems and sh*t... I do not really know. JUST BAN THE PEOPLE BEING *****LES and the world will be a better place, and quit wining about the negative effects of freedom!!

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As of 9/2/02 the ip address sharing this & other suspect zip files is 66.250.52.242.
Will this individual be sharing from this same address tomorrow?
Who knows? My question to you is - if there is a user on the network that is spreading distructive files, what can be done to stop it? Or is there a way to warn other users?

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