Idiots on IRC aren't a result of filesharing, they're a result of people. There'll always be something for someone to bitch about and simply because some people complain about things related to filesharing doesn't mean it should be removed from a network. Hexed exe's is by no means specific to filesharing scripts, questions about scripts are by no means specific to filesharing scripts, and spam from IRC-infected trojans doesn't necessarily come from IRC. It's just as likely to have been installed from a download of exploit in any other medium. Even if it's from IRC, simple spam is just as likely to be caused by someone messaging a command-line 'exploit' into a channel full of 12 year olds as from infected files.
Watchdog:Seems that Hollywood and the record companies are doing the job quite well.
- Not really. The attempts by the RIAA and MPAA and similar organisations are pretty pathetic. Sure, they can bully a network into giving them access to see information about IRC users, but that provides no proof of an actual filesend of illegal content. Unless simply DCC'ing a file with a name which could potentially be copyrighted material becomes valid evidence to arrest someone the MPAA can sit there and look at network info all they want, it won't do anyone any good.
The_Game:Now I did not say that DCC should be removed
- I didn't say you did. The post might have said it was a reply to you but it was a reply to the entire thread in general. I wasn't complaining about your opinion I was expressing my opinion of the situation and on what people have suggested in this thread.
