Comments on: Mark of Caine for file traders

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:20:26 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 00:13:20 +0000

Silly, useless law. A lot of warez “pirates” give out an email address. So what? Unless it’s something that pins down your identity like your company email address, no one will know who you are if you use ANY free email website. (and to be extra safe, a proxy for protection against IP lookup) Unless they use a proxy or anonymous P2P network like Freenet, P2P file sharers are easily identifiable by simply looking up their IP address.

But then maybe this law is really a stealth promotion for Peer2Mail – a new P2P application that transfers files by sending them as email attachments. By very definition, every user of Peer2Mail will be in compliance with this law.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:06:24 +0000

Is there a provision for those who have no e-mail address?
What if you decide to use communal e-mail address?

If all the citizens of california were to agree on just ~ONE address
accessible to anyone from california but none outside of it
(even if they do not use it nor read or write anything through it)
then the state would be faced with the same problem as before.
How to identify one from the mass?
And so anonimity would be served.

All they need is an address like california@something.org
and happy file sharing!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:46:58 +0000

How exactly would the system work whereby the email address was given to the state? Also, how hard would it be to set up fake email accounts? There are free services that will create valid working email account redirects that will expire after a certain time, so you could get the confirmation email or whatever and then poof a week later the email account is gone…