Readers' Comments

Reader Comments on Aardvark Daily 19 Mar 2001
Note: the comments below are the unedited submissions of readers and do
not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher.
From: Craig Shore
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Record Industry Spies On Net Users?

First off i'd like to comment on this piece from todays Aardvark
"Could wives, suspicious of their husband's online activities, recruit the
services of such operations to buy a report detailing at least some of the
websites they've visited and messages they've exchanged with others?"

Why is it that people would need to hide what they have been looking at
from their wives?  Is this just an assumed thing, or does it really
happen?  This is the person you married and will live with for your entire
life!  They should accept you for who you are, you shouldn't have to hide
things like this from them.

And on the subject of Sony knowing who is using Napster - how?  Unless
they have the logs of all the ISPs in this country that show who was
connected to which dynamic IP at the time there is no way they could know.
 Even more so for people using free isp's with false information, they'd
need the Telecom phone logs too.

The later report on Teletext on Saturday had a comment from the Internet
Society of New Zealand that it was just Sony Scaremongering.

Aardvark Responds: Yeah, it could be a hoax on the part of Sony --
but then again, ISOCNZ is hardly an authoritative source of comment
on things Internet are they?



From: Keith
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Sony and Napster

Wouldn't Sony have a hard time prosecuting Napster users?
At best wouldn't they have only an email address (or IP
address)? How would they link that to a natural person, (to
use the legal jargon), to initiate a prosecution?

Even if they forced an ISP to give up a client's personal
details, they would then have to prove that it was that
person and not someone illegally using the persons account.
Or even if it the pirated music was on that person's
machine, that it was he/she that downloaded it.

If Sony are threatening prosecution under copyright line I
presume it would be a criminal and not a civil trial and
therefore the burden of proof would be "beyond reasonable
doubt".




From: bede
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: sony

Boy if theres one thing sonys done is pissed of its user
base,

persons might start to revolt sony and purchase anything but
it can happen,

all i can say is if sony tries to follow up on all the
millions of users world wide, they will bankrupt themseleves
form the sheer cost of legal action needed,

each person or attempt will have to have a warrant generated
before sony can have any one to sue,


as a past network admin, it would probably be a good time
to have a machine crash on the netwrok so that all you
"Known records" about who was using what ip disappered,
to save yourself a lot of record compiling later,

also i don't think its possible for sony to sue every one
using the net.

Sony versus the american public,

why dont they stop wasting their time and address the
problems that make people use napster?
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