And you shouldn't be charged with hacking, just like you aren't charged with grand theft auto if you take an ulocked car that had keys in the ignition.

That is not how peer to peer software works, for the most part. The onus is on the user to not share things they don't want to share, anything that's shared is shared to the whole world, government agents included.

I agree with the content of your second paragraph.

The state doesn't need a warrant or exigent circumstances to enter your home or place of business if you invite them in, which is what you do when you offer files on p2p networks.

Ah! Thanks for the explanation.

Why would the crypto bits change if I intercept the packet mid-stream, copy it, send the original packet along to its destination, and decrypt the copy to peek at its juicy internals?

The extra line came from one of his previous posts, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4348777&cid=45156679

Again, it's impossible to steal light, so by your defintion it is imaginary. Only you say it exists. Make up your mind.

Explain what you mean please. Someone had the idea for the website /., they created it, we can interact with it, therefore it exists in the literal sense. However, it can't be stolen, therefor it doesn't exist according to your prior definition.

It's impossible to steal light, yet light exists.

It's impossible to steal gravity, yet gravity exists.

It's impossible to steal the idea in this comment, yet the idea exists.

Just because something can't be stolen doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

So intangible would be a better word than imaginary when talking about intellectual property, using your definition of imaginary.

Because of this: http://i.imgur.com/EHxSF.jpg

In the military the POTUS is your ultimate commanding officer, criticising your superior officer in public is insubordination. Things in the military are not the same as things in civilian life. This is very much different than the incindent in the linked article.

Bastards are fatherless children of either sex.

Replacing 40g of HFCS with 40g of sugar significantly changes the taste. Mountain Dew Throwback tasts way better.

I wasn't trying to ask for the literal difference...

That said, I prefer the idea of defaulting things like this to something sane and asking you on login if you want to opt-in versus putting more options in the installation process.

How is this different than the suggestion in the summary to default to no and ask the first time you log in?