Should everyone be worried about this?
I recently read this article on REDDIT about this guy who used LimeWire to download some prOn. Something I think %99.99 of young and old people today do. Hence why we pay so much for internet, to get faster download speeds on YouPorn and Redtube… admit it, you know its true. Its not to download episodes of Blues Clues or play online card games. Everyone reads/watches/hears pornography at least once in thier life.
But thats besides the case. What bugged me about this incident is how the guy was caught. Now I don’t know the guy or anything, but I’m a little disgusted in the practices of the FBI in this case. It reminds me of the damn RIAA and the way they sue 80 yr old ladies or 12 yr old kids for downloading .MP3s. Now I admit I used to use LimeWire, Napster and several other apps back in the day to download various media but after the Napster crap that started happening and the amount of virus’ being shared in P2P programs I quickly dumped that method of downloading for other ways(newsgroups,torrents etc). But the idea of the FBI spying on P2P apps really is smelling Anti-American and heading into Nazi territory. Whats wrong with our country that a guy isnt even given a chance to defend himself over something like accidently downloading a file and it had illigal porn in it instead. This sounds like the FBI mislabled a movie file so the guy would download it , only to be tricked into committing a crime.
I dunno, this really bugs me ALOT. How many times have any of you accidently downloaded a file that turned out to be something else. If this becomes common practice with fledgling police officers or federal agents who know nothing of how the internet works, this could mean most of our country could be placed in prison camps for getting spam email.