I once made the mistake, about 6 years back, of doing a ’select all’ download, with the intent of filtering through the downloads the following day, to delete whatever didnt quite do it for me. One of the files in question might have been child porn, but I couldnt tell (you know what the industry is like). So naturally I deleted everything else in the porn directory out of a knee-jerk “oh god no” reaction, losing about another gigs worth of unfiltered porn. Its bad enough having to filter out the advertisement videoclips without THAT crap floating around in there. It wouldnt be so bad if individual users could be banned/reported easily, keeping the networks relatively clean, but with the amount of changing IPs there is little you can do about it. Sweep-downloading P2P porn used to be a good way of saving time, but now? You never know what you’ll catch in your net. To be honest, that one incident scared the crap out of me. Never again.

Would it work? does p2p software scan a kind of checksum (header, anything)?. Making the software to generate such files wont be a
probleme to me.

Please, any –> usefull

As soon as I have realized the files are there, I “shred” (using a software shredding tool) them and software erase the whole machine.

I would like to know I’m I safe but I guess not as they are tracking just about everything we do, which concerns me when I could be prosecuted for making a genuine mistake!

If Limewire wont do it, then perhaps it is up to those of us who have a “Libertarian streak”.

How so? Simple. Their argument is that if Kazaa can block one illegal form of file sharing (kid porn) then they able to block another illegal form of file sharing (copyrighted works).

You may not like it, but it’s a compelling argument. From what I’ve read in the “Kazaagate” blog, Kazaa’s attempts to dance around this issue by claiming that although it CAN block kid porn, it just can’t seem to find a way to block copyrighted works fails to pass the bs detector test.

Rather than publically branding and hounding these animals (which is unconstitutional), states should make sure sex criminals never get out of prison or sentence them to death. I see no benefit to society in unleashing these types of people apon society and forcing them to announce their crimes to everyone in their area. If they are dangerous enough to be branded as outcasts, then they do not need to be in society.

There are, and have been hacker groups which have been battling child pronography for years. These hackers find child porn websites and attempt to have them shut down. For every one of them that they shut down, 2 more appear. Yet, most hacker groups that fight this plague are the ones shut down and stay shut down.

In many cases, the FBI is well aware of these websites, but it seems they have more ugent priorities. I have personally called the FBI long distance twice to report sites, only to be put on hold. I held for over 20 minutes before finally giving up. I was told the second time that “We are very busy, if you want to talk to an agent, you have to hold.” This before 11 September 2001 when things were relatively quiet. As far as I can see, no government agency reqally gives a damned about stopping this kind of crap. Now, it looks like these children are going to be exploited as a weapon against the p2p networks. GOOOOOOOODDDDDDD what will people do for a buck!