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- anderzole, on 04/17/2008, -8/+388what a moron.
- schestowitz, on 04/17/2008, -9/+192RIAA lobbyist. Treating /POSSIBLE/ copyright infringement like child porn.
- whiteyak41, on 04/17/2008, -9/+176Good thing he didn't get elected president. What a tool.
- allaboutdatiki, on 04/17/2008, -2/+153$1B from where?
- dhughey, on 04/17/2008, -2/+137more than 1 BILLION dollars of tax payer money to monitor P2P traffic? wow...
- iceman0113, on 04/17/2008, -4/+120Stupid idiot, why not spend that $1B in education? This pisses me off: "Still, Biden said he isn't out to "exaggerate" the problem and acknowledged that some of those cases may involve "accidental" exchanges of illicit material." So if an accidental exchange happened, the police would still ruin people's lives just by arresting them and putting them on a list of sex offenders only to see that they were wrong later on.
- jpstanle, on 04/17/2008, -3/+98But guys, he's trying to save us from kiddie porn! Kiddie porn! We are morally obligated to enact any policies that _might_ combat child pornography, no matter how absurd, impractical, unconstitutional, or expensive it may be!
Won't you please THINK OF THE CHILDREN???!!? - drafhk, on 04/17/2008, -5/+90"pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation"
...because we all know that the MAFIAA lobbyists are immensely concerned about child porn and rape being broadcast over the internet, and dually why they give ***** like this millions of dollars to try and pass ***** legislation like this. - inactive, on 04/17/2008, -2/+66BWAHAHHAAAAA- Why don't we take that 1 billion and monitor gov't web surfing/emails. Oh wait that would be badddddddd.
- hektur, on 04/17/2008, -0/+44$1B from your pocket according to the article. This guy is a goof.
- angusm, on 04/17/2008, -2/+44Timothy C. May talked about "the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse" - terrorists, child pornographers, drug dealers and organized crime - who are always used as a pretext for greater government surveillance of private communications. #2 seems to have been tapped this time, but it's a safe bet that the major beneficiaries of Senator Biden's $1 billion are going to be the MPAA and the RIAA.
- mobilehavoc, on 04/17/2008, -3/+42Who was elected into office by even bigger morons
- OBDriftwood, on 04/17/2008, -1/+36A politician wants to spend money frivolously? Didn't see that one coming.
- zhepp, on 04/17/2008, -7/+41guys calm down no way bush will let 1 billion get spent on the internet that could be spent on war instead...
- radiatednoodle, on 04/17/2008, -2/+34Goes without saying - he is a politician.
- TruckStuff, on 04/17/2008, -23/+52He's a democrat. Money grows on trees to them.
- romistrub, on 04/17/2008, -9/+38Grow up... there are fiscally irresponsible politicians on all sides of the spectrum.
- wynja, on 04/17/2008, -2/+29Cause we've got nothing better to spend $1 billion dollars on. Let's help out the overly bloated ***** wads in Hollywood.
- necbone, on 04/17/2008, -2/+27Put the ***** money in EDUCATION *****... Politicians are sooooo fail and evil...
- hektur, on 04/17/2008, -1/+23I heart the RIAA.
/plot twist - Sabazou, on 04/17/2008, -2/+23Reading comprehension ftw
- FallOutBoyTonto, on 04/17/2008, -2/+23what a maroon
- LANjackal, on 04/17/2008, -1/+20I'm surprised no one has picked up on the fact that a file's name is NOT related to its content by rule. I take a picture of a car and rename the file "flowers". That doesn't the pic contains any flowers at all. This proposal is silly at best.
- Shadowfox99, on 04/17/2008, -2/+20......and they actually think that it will stop pirates....NOTHING CAN STOP PIRATES........cept ninjas..
- Harbinger67, on 04/17/2008, -1/+19"Oh billions of dollars, is there anything you can't fix?" --Jon Stewart
- dspirito, on 04/17/2008, -0/+17While his suggestion is to monitor p2p transmission of files for child pornography by the filenames; it says nothing at all about copyrighted content. However, I don't see it as unforeseeable that the scrutiny might leak into copyrighted files we may find of interest, such as movies and mp3s. So yeah, we should pay attention to this proposal.. a little.
- OrangeTide, on 04/17/2008, -2/+19democrat ... MORE TAXES
republicans ... MORE DEBT
why can't I vote for someone who is into LESS SPENDING instead? - halofourteen, on 04/17/2008, -2/+19Well, there was this one guy...his name started with "R" and ended with "on Paul", but...yeah, that didn't really work out...
- Sinnic, on 04/18/2008, -2/+17I actually especially liked this part:
"But in 2008 alone, investigators using Fairplay have "seen" more than 1,400 IP addresses tied to swapping child pornography files on at least 100 different occasions, Waters said. He didn't say how he identified what he viewed as child pornography"
and this "Based on Waters' statements to the committee, the system appears to work like this: Investigators log onto peer-to-peer file-sharing networks as any other person would and search for files containing certain keywords that are likely to indicate child pornography is involved. Then they download the files--frequently videos, sometimes as long as 20 to 30 minutes, with names like "children kiddy underage illegal.mpg" and much more obscene--to their own machines. They're able to use the Fairplay software to obtain the IP address of the file's sender and, in some cases, display its geographic location in map form."
They download the illegal pornography to make sure that it's illegal pornography. Then they arrest people for viewing and downloading illegal pornography.
We murder murderers because they kill people. We watch child pornography to stop child pornography. We make war because other people might make war on us.
/forehead slap - DteK, on 04/17/2008, -12/+27I used to like this douche bag for some reason
- IamJustinM, on 04/17/2008, -6/+21WTH? Did you guys even bother to read the article?
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"Blaming this problem on peer-to-peer innovation is like blaming the interstate highway system when someone uses it to transport drugs," he said.
But in 2008 alone, investigators using Fairplay have "seen" more than 1,400 IP addresses tied to swapping child pornography files on at least 100 different occasions.
--- - Pstall, on 04/17/2008, -0/+14Will someone please fill me in on why this is technically not wiretapping?
- CTK14A, on 04/17/2008, -1/+15Isn't this the same reason why we don't have nationwide public wi-fi?
http://digg.com/politics/Congress_Yells_Kiddie_Por ... - Kennerk, on 04/17/2008, -1/+15dont forget the delaware part, thats the difference between us and them
- Pstall, on 04/17/2008, -1/+14Hillary supports him too... Hillary and Obama have almost exactly the same political point of view. Its funny you get upset over things that are true about the candidate you are going to vote for. You should be PROUD of the issues they support and believe in.
Not get upset when someone informs you of things your candidate supports that you did not previously know, because of your lack of research. I mean I guess there are 100's of digg articles so he must be the right guy! - Y0tsuya, on 04/17/2008, -0/+13We can all have our revenge by renaming goatse/meatspin/tubgirl pix and vids and trading them using filenames like 12yo_lolita_bukkake.jpg.
- Ecanem, on 04/17/2008, -0/+12Never fear America! There will always be a way to waste your money in some crazy scheme!
- OrangeTide, on 04/17/2008, -1/+13Let's drop this War on Terrorists, War on Drugs, War on Poverty and all the other wars we have lost and instead have a War on P2P.
Using these scare tactics and pretending to protect you is the method used by the dirtiest of politicians. - PabloMac, on 04/17/2008, -0/+10Print a single $1,000,000,000 bill and throw it at the "problem."
While you're printing one, print an extra for me... - ashcrow, on 04/17/2008, -0/+10... yeah this isn't going to work.
- halofourteen, on 04/18/2008, -0/+10Please tell me you didn't make that username just for this comment...
- ad33lshahid, on 04/17/2008, -3/+13can we start spending this money on things that we actually need? like a healthcare system that works and a school system that actually teaches you how to read past the 3rd grade level? im so sick of people wasting our money. I wish we decided what to do with our money at a local level.. this is garbage
- ItsAllSoSurreal, on 04/18/2008, -0/+10"pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation" The rest of that sentence is "simply by looking at file names." Is he serious? Someone couldn't name their freak file "cute_fluffy_bunnies_frolicking_in_the_forest.mov" ? They think they can get away with any kind of surveillance simply by claiming they're "looking for child porn."
- beloitpiper, on 04/17/2008, -0/+10Hmmm...being bought by the RIAA? I think so.
- Pstall, on 04/17/2008, -1/+11Spending money for the government to monitor what private citizens are doing online? What ever happened to the right to privacy in your own home?
- NightVortez, on 04/17/2008, -2/+12Also known as "the people"............
- Alfurnguy, on 04/17/2008, -6/+15We dont welcome your kind here
- IamJustinM, on 04/17/2008, -5/+14That's less than a week in Iraq.
- Foxehh, on 04/17/2008, -2/+10This proposal seems unfeasible. The prospect of monitoring all U.S. Internet data seems like a daunting task.
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