mytrip writes “Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) has proposed an ambitious plan, costing on the order of $1 billion, aimed at curtailing illegal activities via P2P networks. His plan involves utilizing new software to monitor peer-to-peer traffic on an ongoing basis. ‘At an afternoon Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing about child exploitation on the World wide web, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) stated he was under the impression it’s “pretty simple to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation” simply by looking at file names. He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders.”

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