Are you scared?

[shipwreck]

Rest assured that I personally won't bump the thread if it doesn't.

[lostdemon]

I'm about as scared as a professional swimmer jumping in a pool.

[Tokeman]

Simple fact is, if the authorities cannot stop kiddy porn and other unsavoury sites, what chance have they got stopping file sharing, much of which is legitimate sharing.

Presumably, kiddie porn sites are very underground and secretive, whereas even private trackers are easily found on the first page(s) on google.

And to those bashing me for my prediction, I saw these recent events as inevitable too, so if I remember, I'll bump this thread when shit really hits the fan worldwide over the next year or two.

What about all those 'naturist' sites. They are not secritive or private, yet show underage girls, and AFAIK it is illegal. There are tons of sites with way more illegal crap then filesharing, and they haven't stopped any of it yet. The internet is still like the wild west.

[Disme]

[DarkLured]

I'm not afraid, but I might be worried if a site I care about goes down as things tighten up.

[puckface]

scared of what? the boogeyman?

[Swift]

i will migrate when my sites die

[mikeHD]

Presumably, kiddie porn sites are very underground and secretive, whereas even private trackers are easily found on the first page(s) on google.

And to those bashing me for my prediction, I saw these recent events as inevitable too, so if I remember, I'll bump this thread when shit really hits the fan worldwide over the next year or two.

What about all those 'naturist' sites. They are not secritive or private, yet show underage girls, and AFAIK it is illegal. There are tons of sites with way more illegal crap then filesharing, and they haven't stopped any of it yet. The internet is still like the wild west.

I don't know if it was on Salon or somewhere else, but an article I read a few weeks ago mentioned such sites, which I've never seen myself. I'm pretty sure it mentioned that there used to be magazines like that and many sites at first, but most have been shut down, so I'm guessing that's a pretty fringe activity too and would certainly be illegal in the US and other countries (even a cartoon of Lisa Simpson naked was considered child porn in Australia). I'm sure there are such open public sites, but I wonder where they are hosted and how vulnerable they would appear if a politician or someone suddenly became aware of them and wanted it shut down.

You're right that these things exist, but my point is that they are in a precarious situation existing mainly on the fringe of the internet and legality. Bittorrent has thrust itself to the forefront in the last few years and I think we'll starting to see the effects of becoming so publicized.

It's just important to be aware that what we're doing is or probably could be construed as illegal and that the authorities are well aware of where we're doing it usually. I've read some comments at SceneHD that wondered how the authorities even knew about the place or how they had ever seen the inside. That kind of ignorance is rampant. A lesser form of this ignorance I've seen is the idea that only Kazaa users have really had legal issues, so those noobs are the ones who should worry. That overlooks the fact that the legal system takes a while to catch up to technological trends.

[iLOVENZB]

It's good isn't it? Think about when p2p networks go under threat there will always be security upgrades?

Wasn't TPB going to encrypt the whole of cyber space at one point?

That's commitment!

[CaptanAmerica]

yh, im scared that da op cr8ed this topic, noth personal anyhow