The Battles on the High Seas of the Internet!!

Even though my chosen article (click to view) for today is old, I encourage you to read it along with another Court Document (click for link) if you have the time.

Now, assuming you read the article, let me fast forward 3 years. Isohunt is the prominent search engine for torrents cached through out the internet. There site, due to a 4/2010 court order, have stupefied their site for the American user making it useless as a tool and instead of the safe sound nature of the website that we knew and loved (which allowed viewers to leave comments about their selected files) it has become less of a pirate playground and more of a virus wellspring for legitimate users. I'm not saying I'm innocent, when NAPSTER first came out in the late 90's we were ALL guilty, before we even knew it was wrong.

So, now with admitted guilt, I ask should we all be punished? Isohunt, in my opinion, was a witch hunt. A very unsuccessful one. They did not host the Illegal torrents, anyone who knows anything about torrenting knows the site did not contain any illegal data. For those of you that don't know, torrents are files that you can download, typically very small (256kb). When downloaded you can open the torrent with a Torrent Client and it will connect you to hundreds of other peoples computers and download from them.

So, the courts ultimatum? Filter your search terms. Great! Ohh wait, if we filter out every copyrighted source known to man what words are we allowed to search for? IsoHunt said NO! Now we can't see them in their full glory anymore (they do offer a "lite" version for us U.S. users).

So, what's my point? Google. IsoHunt has been unfairly tried. I challenge you to do something,
        1) Go to GOOGLE
        2) Think of a movie in theaters
        3) Now type - nameofmovie filetype:torrent
        4) Press enter
        5) Look at all the illegal torrents GOOGLE has to offer.

What's that you say? Google just supplied you with illegal content? What, it's no different than the results you get from IsoHunt? I don't expect anyone to stand up to Google, and I don't want them to. I just wish the court systems could recognize a search engine from PIRATE BAY.

My only true question is why Google hasn't been forced to filter their search terms. To me it was an ISO witch hunt. And ultimately if one of the boys or girls can't have candy then none of the boys and girls should have candy.

In closing I challenge you to find out some more on your own and let me know what you feel about it.

LINKS
GOOGLE
ISOHUNT LITE
The Real IsoHunt (only accessible through proxy)

Dare to Compare and See for Yourself

Perfect Citizen or Flawed Government

After reading about the "Perfect Citizen" program, I can see how some people may become paranoid and feel the government is going to start watching. Not me. I think they made a mistake. To clarify, for those who haven't read, Perfect Citizen is a program that detects Cyberattacks on Critical U.S. Locations (Nuclear Reactors and the like). So, this program can alert the government if a foreign entity attacks. Now you may say, "We should be scared!" But, what you should be asking is, "Why did my all powerful government put nuclear reactors and power plants on a globally accessible Internet?"

We shouldn't need watchdog programs like Perfect Citizen, because major government intelligence and nuclear reactors shouldn't be on the grid. We set ourselves up for attack. Programs that watch for attacks are not preventing the attacks, they're just watching for them and stopping them after the fact. Why do these places need to be connected to a network that can be hacked into from china? I would be worried about the information the government has out there that can be hacked, not what they are watching me do.

Bottom line, they messed up. You don't need sensitive information online, take it from me government, I know your watching, go back to file cabinets.

Check out the source article here!!!