I was browsing through the news articles at CNet.com today and noticed an article about a lawsuit against BitTorrent. At first, I was thinking, "Just another useless article about BitTorrent." So, as I was reading it, I found out that a Federal Court Judge in Los Angeles decided he wanted to make it legal to use a person's RAM to criminalize someone. If you are at least somewhat technical, you already know that RAM, Random Access Memory, is not a "permanent memory" system, but instead, used as a temporary storage for faster access to data. After time, a shutdown/logout, or clear, the data that was stored is cleared from memory and something new is inputted. So, clearly the judge has a misconception and lacking technical experience.
Now, onto the part about torrents. This judge also ruled that the popular Torrent Tracker Torrent Spy will have to record all users IP's. If approved, this 'rule' will help the MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America, find copyright infringmenters, and be able to prosecute them in the Civil Court system.
So, the Tip of the Day is: Stop using TorrentSpy.com, that is, if you use a torrent program to download things.
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