Comments on: Dutch Parent Spy app

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:47:15 +0000

hehehe that’d be sweet, sweet irony ;o) Poetic justice too.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:49:59 +0000

I can see legal problems happing in the future. If these app’s are promoted or seam to be promoting that these app’s are so called illegal app’s. I could see developers to start suing RIAA types for defamation damages.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:28:59 +0000

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have to do this manually if they wish…

This smacks of the other unsuccessful attempts at removing “infringing files that have been floated in the past by the likes of the RIAA. The problem was that the program was an all purpose search engine, looking for *.mp3, *wav, *.avi and the like. It was very successful in finding mp3’s, including those that were needed by the OS for sound and for those included in games that were legal apps. When an uninformed user hit the erase all it did just that and suddenly, the computer didn’t play sounds anymore. There was a reason that the previous programs died a quick and quiet death. Those uninformed computer users got really irate when they found they had to reinstall the OS to fix the problem they created by wholesale deletion of all mp3 files.

No doubt this wonderware of a program will be able to distinglish between legal files and what are claimed to be infringed files. Either that or it too will die a quick and quiet death as its predecessors have.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:47:30 +0000

“illegal media files” huh? Just how is this app going to know that they’re not “legal”? Perhaps anything without MS designed and xxAA approved DRM maybe? How many files for non-ms media playing software will trigger false positives i wonder?

I can see it now, everyone who has itunes on their pc and grabs this program suddenly discovers that even their music purchased from apple via the official website is now “illegal”.

Not to mention all those games that use mp3, ogg, avi, mpg or other non-drm’d file formats for audio and video.

If that is the criteria (ie non MS drm = illegal), i wonder if they actually got permission from MS to use that drm info at all? Or did they happen to “reverse engineer” the info from drm’d files they had in their posession and forget to ask MS if that was ok?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:58:33 +0000

Yeah! There’s never a hacker around when you need one!

I wish the benevolent hackers of the world would put their skills to good use…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:13:09 +0000

Hmmm, where’s the app that lets children monitor what their parents do with the household computer? Thoughtcrime anyone?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:14:15 +0000

It would be funny if some cracker broke into the software download site and replaced the spy program with one that performed a DOS on the music cartel’s websites. I personally would like to see the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA put out of business by the angry populace. If this is done, maybe it would teach other cartels that the customer is always right.