If the cops are allowed to scan anybody's hard drive, ostensibly for child porn, will I get a fine for using Limewire to get a few tunes? most of which I already have paid for but are on vinyl or cassette tapes.

this is something else i was thinking about. Although downloading music is a MUCH smaller crime than downloading kp, if the authorities have the power to scan hard drives and check download records, why aren't they busting any music downloaders as well as kp downloaders?

marshmarsh16

I think you are getting confused about "who looks for what" on the Internet in regards to criminal activity.

First of all, the police and other UK government agencies look for signs of fraud, ID theft, terrorism, illegal web sites and anything that can be considered criminal and or terrorist linked activities.

That said, the government still wants all telecoms companies in the UK to keep a record of all communications, i.e. Internet, mobile, land line, IM, etc. that occur on their networks for 12 months.

Snooping database has to happen says gov't - Software - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/...9443438,00.htm

However, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a close associate of the American RIAA, and their agents search the Internet for music sharers, i.e. uploaders and downloaders. The BPI then approach the ISP they suspect the music sharer belong to and demand the sharer's name and address.

Consequently, music sharing in the UK is a civil matter and not yet a criminal one.

I suspect that the BPI is lobbying the government to change the law and make music file sharing a criminal offence as well as giving themselves "police like" powers, similar to the powers the RIAA in America seem to have appropriated.

UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown - Research - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws - Management - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

So, the police will not come knocking on your door because you share music files but if you are a prolific sharer you could get a letter from the BPI threatening to sue you.


UK Bob

Well i was getting really annoyed with this, all of this childish stuff. The easiest thing i could come up with to block it from coming up, was to block keywords in the filter option.
For e.g. most of them kind of files hold words like "lolita" and "kiddy" and "******". Just type in the keywords, don't get none of that stuff anymore, but when i type in tigers, tiger porn will come up... geez

slightly off topic, but earlier today i got a phone call from BT. On the phone line in the leisure centre i work in. They just wanted to advertise remote access, but what worried me greatly was that my details had not yet been logged into the leisure centre's records. According to the outside world, i don't work at the centre, and yet BT knew i worked there. I rang back a few hours later to ask how on earth they'd got that number and linked it to me, the guy on the other end said he didn't have a clue. It seems everyone is spying these days

i think this porn is f*cking disgusting and the mere fact that some people find it so easy to dicuss the **** of children so openly and with such a blas'e attitude is frankly frightening, i have like many others encountered the problem of accidental downloading and have tried switching applications but cant find a program as easy to use as limewire, my solution was to use the filter in the options section of limewire and filter the keywords associated with this type of file and find it to be affective, now i just use youporn or spankwire for my adult videos and leave limewire for music..

If I get it I shred it with three passes with Stomp Soft file shredder.

I finally figured out that if its says pthc or something like that it may be something bad. I assume that stands for pathetic. Anyway put that in your filter also.

Urban Dictionary: pthc

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My first post here .. but i find most of the videos that are related to porn cant be trusted on its face..

Either the titles are wrong.. like search "25yr old porn" then you open the video and its a 13yr old ?? maybe .. i didnt ask for ID .. So there is NO WAY to avoid it.. Unless you just never search for porn .. but thats not likely search top websites ranks for porntube on alexa and you will find their ranking is almost as good as Google or MSN or Yahoo .. last i looked it was like 40th rank out of the millions of websites out there. so if anyone dont think porn is big there wrong.. its just the age and asking for ID thats the problem ..

And someone earlier in this Thread said it works the opposite also. He said it'll say 18 or something and they "actors" will be 30 or whatever.