Millions of United States Citizens Will Be Monitored, According to an Agreement

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Wow. I mean, I understand that piracy is wrong, but that is no way to go at it.

 

So the government gets to spy on us more?

I swear to God this ****ing US has better things to do then worry about God damn copyright ****! fix the Economy and money problems then do the less important **** like copyright.

As as Ama said this ain't no way to do it. I don't take like to being spied on Thank You very much XD

 

Reading further, it appears that they've tried this before and failed.

Here's a comment from someone else:

 

Well last time I checked (And I could be wrong about this) most IP addresses are assigned temporarily, but a digital record is kept on who had what IP address at what time. Also, I'm fairly sure that IP addresses and MAC addresses go hand in hand, so wouldn't they end up with the ID number of the network card that is being used?

 

If an ISP wants to, they can get your MAC Address from your IP Address, assuming you don't take measures against that (and even they aren't foolproof). A MAC Address is a unique ID bound to your network card, and if they've got that, they've basically got you.

That being said, I don't think this changes much; ISPs were already, if I remember correctly, required to log all records for like five years or something. They didn't do much with those logs, but they did keep them. And if this is on an ISP basis, not a government basis, then just use a different ISP if it bothers you that much.

 

Well this sucks. Don't think it'll be much of a problem for me though. Unless someone hacked and stole all those addresses do I think this could turn ugly.

 

I think they're doing the right thing by trying to reduce copyright and piracy issues, but definitely going about it the wrong way.

 

You can trace someone to the exact longitude and latitude with only their IP.

 

There are so many ways of being tracked you have no idea.

 

Its not like it is even hard to trace someone's IP.

 

One thing that could prevent this from happening to yourself is changing your IP manually and or using proxies. Well getting caught anyway.

 

To be honest, it's good that they are trying to buckle down with this, I thought by the title you were referring to be watched via street cameras or somethnig which would have been horrible. However, since it's just IP adresses then it's not a huge deal, I don't think it will work though as others have said due to the large amount of people doing it and the fact they tried it before- what will they be doing differently?

 

Think about that, though. Having lived with that possibility for so long, it took someone telling you about it for you to recognize it. So it can't have affected you much. No, that's not trying to say it isn't a terrible thing and couldn't have grave consequences; but pragmatically speaking, it's not as big a deal as many people reading that article interpret it to be.