Re: Napster a little insecure?

[Ken.Williams () EY COM (Ken Williams)]

The real concern is that anybody, including music industry lawyers and law enforcement officials, can download Napster 
and find out exactly who is "distributing" or "stealing" copyrighted music.  This is the anonymity factor that makes 
this situation very different from simple FTP or HTTP requests that you send out and receive.  Of course, if you're not 
allowing anybody to access any copyrighted music that you might legally possess, then you have nothing to worry about 
...

Proxied sessions are not really an answer either, in this case, for people concerned about their anonymity - you need 
bandwidth to transfer large amounts of data in a timely fashion.

- kw

m_a_n_i_a_c_ () HOTMAIL COM on 01/31/2000 01:08:38 AM

Please respond to m_a_n_i_a_c_ () HOTMAIL COM@Internet
To:     VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM@Internet
cc:     
Subject:        Re: Napster a little insecure?

I don't think he was complaining about the ethics of MP3s.  He was stating
an honest concern that Napster logs *YOUR* IP address when you download an
MP3.  With a court order, could the music companies not get this information
from Napster?  Would this not give them enough of an audit trail to crack
down on people?

Its a possibility....

> Wtf?
> What has mp3 pirating with volnurability todo?;p
> Please take your etichal problems about mp3's some where else.
> I am sure most of the readers of this mail list has mp3's of music which
> is copyrighted, and I wouldn't be surpised if even YOU have it ;p
>
> - technot

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