Comments on: Supreme Court Ruling Makes Chasing File-Sharers Hugely Expensive

By: Billy Wenge-Murphy

Billy Wenge-Murphy — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:22:00 +0000

Right, I am afraid of that day….when the US follows in Sweden’s footsteps ;) Sweden is setting an awful precedent.

By: Borderliner

Borderliner — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:08:00 +0000

While generally an interesting approach there is one problem – generally you won’t be harassed for downloading, but for uploading. The backup is allowed for personal use, not for distributing it to others. All the suers have to do is show that they could obtain a copy from you, that they own the distribution rights and haven’t given/sold/rented those rights to you, and it’s basically over. All you can then do is to claim that they are lying, but if they are even a little bit dedicated they won’t have a problem with backing everything up. While you, conveniently, “trashed the physical copies and bills into trashbin” ;)

By: Borderliner

Borderliner — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:08:00 +0000

By: DRuNKeN MaSTeR

DRuNKeN MaSTeR — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:26:00 +0000

I’m using TrueCrypt, just use a hidden volume. You’ll have to passwords, the first you can give out (if forced), they see you have some stuff and that’s it. The real stuff is inside the hidden volume (in the free space of the original volume). Without the proper password it just looks like gibberish and _nobody_ can tell, that there is data (it’s free space…).

By: 4ntonl1nd

4ntonl1nd — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:22:00 +0000

Well it’s us orders :P

By: Kartoonkaptain

Kartoonkaptain — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:06:00 +0000

Encrypting your hard drive can be tricky. You don’t HAVE to give them the password, but you can be hit with other penalties for not complying as a result.

By: Lanye

Lanye — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:01:00 +0000

if u use good encryption, no one knows its encrypted. Take this for instance, u get files corrupt sometimes. Heck i have downloaded corrupt files and rar files have broken that won’t extract and say “file corrupted”. There’s the answer or use good encryption that doen’t show as encrypton.

By: Rock

Rock — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:58:00 +0000

ok fella if u use good encruption, the file, drive, etc won’t show as encrypted so they won’t know

By: Tie

Tie — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:57:00 +0000

true all but u need to shut down as ram sometimes info is stored, in order to clear your ram u need to shut down not simply pull the plug, although i dunno if ram is any use to them.

By: Elena

Elena — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:55:00 +0000

U can try to regularly install it, then take all your directories (cut and paste but backup first just in case) paste them to encrypted usb stick and try to run app from there, often the shortcuts won’t work but no problem having to open app from usb stick by clicking on it. I used to run emule this way.