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Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[email protected]] wrote: > 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... With NT/2k/XP one can simply disable/enable netcards so that wouldn't be a problem. > > 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 :-) Smileys always help. > 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? Internet shopping, most of my day-to-day food-supplies, big acquisitions happen using plastic; cash is that annoying stuff that fills my pants and gets spended too quickly when I pulled it out of the ATM. > (BTW your post wout be easier to read if the lines were < 80 chars.) Oops ;) > > 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. Not always indeed, but I personally don't mind most of the time though. Also you are probably familiar with the dutch law for personal information registration in which at least dutch companies/organisations have to register themselves if they keep information about persons. Email-lists/access-logs/crossrefs could quite possibly fall under this law, so every company retaining these informations would be in violation of a law ;) > > 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? Stupid comes from the annoying&useless parts (again IMHO :). Annoying because one needs to update his/her reverse every x seconds And I like to have a static IP with a corresponding reverse which identifies me as me. If somebody wants to track me or whatever google around, mailinglist archives etc tell more than my IP and I don't see anybody (okay there are bound to be people) complaining about google mirroring+indexing their sites (hail robots.txt ofcourse) Greets, Jeroen
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