Senator: Let's spend $1 billion and monitor P2P for illegal files

[megimoo]

"Good old  Sen. Slow Joe Biden (D-Del.) "
 WASHINGTON--A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and he wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to help make that happen.
 
At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the Internet, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) said he was under the impression it's "pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation" simply by looking at file names. He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders.

The software, dubbed "Operation Fairplay," was developed two years ago by Special Agent Flint Waters in the Wyoming Attorney General's Office, who, by Biden's description, is considered an expert in the field. The application is currently being used by all of the regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces nationwide and internationally, Waters told the panel.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9920665-7.html

[Airwolf]

Yeah lets waste more money on something that will probably net 10% of the illeagle sharing here while the other 90% that goes on overseas is ignored and the court system is clogged with lawsuits by an entity that has as much greed as the oil sheiks in the ME.

[Uhhuh35]

Oh yeah, that's much more important that monitoring phone calls between people here and terrorists overseas.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Joe_Biden.htm
"Voted NO on extending the PATRIOT Act's wiretap provision. (Dec 2005)"

[Chris_]

Oh yeah, that's much more important that monitoring phone calls between people here and terrorists overseas.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Joe_Biden.htm
"Voted NO on extending the PATRIOT Act's wiretap provision. (Dec 2005)"

Or monitoring, say, our southern border.  $1 Billion would buy a hell of a fence. 

  you, Biden.

[Ptarmigan]

If he really wanted to do something about intellectual property, he should go after real pirates who make and sell counterfeit goods. They are known to fund terrorism.