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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Broadening the IPv6 discussion
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > > Maybe the p2p vendors should implement IPv6, it might also > > > take a while until RIAA finds them again :-) > > Then I hope they'll implement RFC 3041, otherwise the RIAA > > will go on a massive MAC address hunt... > Hmm a MAC... and then (sweet, dude) ? > I still don't get it why that would be a problem, simply because: > - one can change your IP by hand and/or automagically (RFC 3041 like you > mentioned) > - MAC's can be changed (ifconfig hwaddr... ) Yes, but rebooting each time you change the MAC address for your windows box gets somewhat tiresome after a while... > And then still.. they know that 'something/one' from a certain /48 did > 'something'. Ok, first of all: it was a joke. I guess I should have included a :-) Second: that the record industry might think it's a good idea has little bearing on it being actually a good idea. I have no trouble believing they would subpoena ethernet card sales records from stores to find out MAC addresses to go after people who trade MP3s if they thought there was a 1% chance it would do their cause any good. And it might, since most PC users don't know what a MAC address is, let alone how to change it. > So what, if you pay at a store with your VISA or AMEX or simply your > bankcard. > That company holds at least your accountnumber, let's crossreference > that. Never heard of cash? (BTW your post wout be easier to read if the lines were < 80 chars.) > Same thing (IMHO ;) as the IP address thing, it pops up at several > places and they > can do many statistical stuff with it for behaviour research, buy styles > etc. Yes. I use a static address that is easily correlated with lots of real-life info about me, and I'm not always happy about that. > ipv6 [-p] gpu UseAnonymousAddresses [yes|no|always|Counter] > that's how you turn that stupid feature off, it is annoying IMHO and > quite useless as Why is it stupid, annoying and useless? Iljitsch van Beijnum
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