Re: Piracy

[dmcclain@runet.edu (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)]

Joe, posting the list seems like a good idea, but it isn't. The 
information recorded by ftp servers is offered by the caller. It takes 
very little to spoof it. All you have to do is ftp with the command flags 
set to force by-hand login rather than the automatic acct:anonymous and 
pass:your@e-mail.addr. 

Besides, it'd take verifying the logs of the 
callers' ISP's to determine if they were in fact on at that time. We know 
you didn't edit the ftp logs -- but you can't PROVE that you didn't 
without getting those verifications. And way too damn few ISP's will 
assist in something like that. It's just low priority. Turley's ISP had 
to do this verification before bumping him, or they risked getting in 
trouble for doing it without *proof*. 

A text file of anything sent over the net is not proof. Anyone can 
write/edit anything. Trust me, I've been going at this for some time now.  

BTW, the old reporting address for the FBI (nccs@fbi.gov) is now 
disconnected. The publisher's group Software Publishers' Assn. will take 
the info: piracy@spa.org. The FBI never did squat anyway unless they 
could round up hundreds of names at once and make it a Big Night Out for 
the agents.

I sympathize. Posting the list IS a good idea. Most of the info would 
probably be true and correct. But as I said, you can't prove it with just 
the list.

Check our sites for other ideas:
http://www.rlabs.com/sputum
http://www.plonk.com/sputum
http://www.zippo.com/~sputum

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