Re: Honeypots & reccord industry

[Kevin Bryan <TenToThe8th () yahoo com>]

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As far as I understand it (IANAL, etc), entrapment only applies to law
enforcement.  Since the RIAA is not law enforcement, any data they
collect from a honeypot p2p client should still be admissible.  See the
dictionary entry:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=entrapment

- --Kevin

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:22:59AM -0500, Roger A. Grimes wrote:

> I don't remember the source, but I have read this several times. I don't
> think it is a secret.
>
> People should not be illegally downloading copyrighted material, so I
> don't see the problem.
>
> A courtcase based on evidence collected from one of these honeypots
> might finally test the entrapment defense theory...but the RIAA would
> probably just use the evidence collected to track other more certain
> types of evidence.
>
> Roger
>
> *******************************************************************
> *Roger A. Grimes, Banneret Computer Security, Consultant 
> *CPA, CISSP, MCSE: Security (2000/2003/MVP), CEH, yada...yada...
> *email: roger () banneretcs com
> *Author of Honeypots for Windows (Apress)
> *http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=281
> *******************************************************************
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> To: Bruno Joho
> Cc: honeypots () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Honeypots & reccord industry
>
> Bruno Joho wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > It came to my ears the reccord industry is collecting information 
> > about people sharing music files or publishing such files for 
> > download. They may using honeypot technology to get the data needed 
> > for proceedings judicially. Does anybody knows more about?
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