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What a riot
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:18:06 GMT, (Scott Gardner)
wrote:
Thanks Scott. I didn't remember that one.
I hope that he's a bit more circumspect in the future. The fact that
he's "tracing" downloads seems a shade sinister.
All data servers have a log file of all the connections they received.
Studying IP address you can exactly know who has logged in, how many
time, what has been done...
This is a secret for nobody.
So why so much mysteries around this common fact ?
The *how* of what he's doing is no mystery. The question is, *why* is
he going through his server logs, doing lookups on some or all of the
IP addresses, and then posting the likely corporate affiliation of
visitors to his site on this newsgroup?
Scott Gardner
And the real issue was orginally putting lie to the claim that his
site is anonymous.
The fact is, the person who downloaded the material might have been
put in jeopardy within his own company. Had someone at Sony (or Dolby)
seen that posting, they could very easily trace who had downloaded the
material, if it was an issue for them. For instance, it could have
been a person doing it on company time for personal reasons
unbeknownst to the company. Another thing is, Sony or Dolby might not
want Arnold using their company for endorsement purposes, especially
when the endorsement is so vague.
There are many potential minefields that Arnold has obviously not
thought about, and the fact that he's ungrateful to me for pointing
them out isn't surprising in the least.
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