That in light of the lawsuits I’ve been reading about having been dealt to users DOWNLOADING stupid music files (not even uploading) really makes me violent.

As Americans we can really be a bunch of lazy-a$$ whores sometimes.

Where are we as a nation when the prosecution of citizens who sidestep mandatory support of a weak-a$$, decrepit and obnoxiously greedy business model takes priority over securing our own children’s a$$es against perverted exploitation? And because the former is more lucrative than the latter!

A G0#-damned shame.

If CP were handled with a fraction of the obsessive compulsion OJ or Anna Nicole saw I expect CP wouldn’t even be a problem anymore.

This does of course cast doubt into any cases MD have provided evidence for in the past.

The anti-child porn effort by the NY AG office is reasonable – there are privacy implications, but given that they’re simply downloading files made available on p2p networks, they’re within legal and moral norms, certainly as most people on this forum would see them. I hope their efforts continue, though I doubt they’ll ever have success enough to make any difference to child porn – that needs to be addressed at the root cause of demand.

However, I deeply hope that they sever their relationship with MediaDefender and find a new partner for their effort. MD has demonstrated complete incompetence; aside from the leakage, the content of of their email and conversation displays only the barest grasp on what their actually doing, and the tone makes me want to slap them silly; if I got that from any supposed business professional I was working with I’d pretty much have to do just that.

Certainly the p2p community has little to fear from these nitwits; alas, neither will the child porn community.

Would be cool to have a shot of his home and have his phone number.