Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks 230
An anonymous reader writes "A federal judge in Vermont has denied a motion to suppress evidence filed by three defendants in a child porn case. The three had alleged their Fourth Amendment rights were violated when police used an automated P2P query-response tool to gather information from their computers. That information subsequently led to their arrest and indictments. The judge held (PDF) that the defendants had either inadvertently, or otherwise, made the information available for public download on a P2P network and therefore couldn't assert any privacy claims over the data."
but..... (Score:5, Funny)
my privates have been on the internet.
Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and (Score:5, Funny)
If you believe the MAFIAA's rhetoric the pirates are the solution since they are destroying the jobs of all the hard-working people in the kiddie porn industry.
I was gonna say the same but couldnt come up with a way of saying "think of the children and download kiddie porn" without it coming across the wrong way.
Re:but..... (Score:3, Funny)
my privates have been on the internet.
From this day forth you shall refer to them as your publics.