Comments on: New tool designed to block song swaps

The product from Palisade Systems, scheduled to be available this week, has the enthusiastic support of the RIAA.

Privacy Anyone?

"If installed ... it could look inside students' e-mails, instant messages and peer-to-peer transfer ..."

How is this any different than Google reading your email and displaying ads? Why isn't anyone protesting this software?

Oh, it's the RIAA.

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The key here is that these are Private Networks. Just like any business has a right to see what you are doing, a University has the right to enforce network usage policies as they see fit. However, I doubt this would fly at a public university, at least not for long.

Bottom line... encrypt your IMs and anything else you can. It would be highly unlikely that anyone would block encryption... blocking encryption would mean that you can't do anything securely on the Net, including buying good, checking bank balances, etc.

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Easily defeated...

If people can remove the spyware from Kazaa etc I doubt this program will pose to much of a challenge.
If this software blocks encrypted traffic they're just asking for privacy lawsuits. Students etc have every right to encrypt email etc.

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RIAA blah blah blah

There are Privacy Laws in this country and if you violate my Privacy, esp in regards to email, well that is wrong - can we sue for Constitutional and Privacy violation? Thousands of students suing the RIAA and this company - now that is what I would like to see!! So I say bring it on....also, I seriously doubt that it would work anyway since this company seems to not want to show this tool to anyone, including the RIAA. Big talk and no action.....plus, what if you have a private ISP not attached to a University or Business server??????
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