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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 4751585" data-attributes="member: 19998">He said the number was conservative. You are right, where the internet bean and where it is now are two different things. The underlying protocols are the same. It still uses the TCP/IP protocol stack. The most common version of TCP/IP is v4, which dates back over 20 years. There's a v6 developed in the 90s to solves some expansion problems. These protocols were developed to track the information you claim is hard to obtain. The key word in the above is "sites" it's erroneous to call anything you listed as a site, implying that those are somehow analogous to websites. Bit torrent: Bit torrent is it's own protocol. It's not exactly difficult to monitor. For example, there is "absolutely no anonymity" in that protocol. "Even a novice programmer can obtain the IP addresses of all the peers in BT network without breaking a sweat!"<a href="http://httphttp://web.archive.org/web/20041119150847/http://mnl.cs.stonybrook.edu/home/karthik/BitTorrent/Robustness_of_BT.doc://" target="_blank">Cite.</a>IRC: is internet Relay Chat, and my experience is limited with it, so I can't comment on it.Usernets: I assume you mean Usenet, or newsgroups. A Newsgroup would be difficult to monitor. Of course, the problem with distributing a pdf via a newsgroup is that any (yes, anyone) can send a kill message to delete it. Hundreds of pvp file sharing applications: There are fewer P2P networks than there are applications. A network like Gnutella has several diffrent applications that use it. So a company like WotC only has to identify the networks most commonly used to pirate RPG books (or, rather, their RPG books) and monitor there. It doesn't matter what application the user runs, because they all use the same networks.It's important to remember that computers excel at monitoring large volumes of information. It's also important to remember that while the files users are downloading a large and media rich, the information needed to track such downloads is small and comprised of numbers.Why? Hasbro Zombie. I like it. I suppose it describes me. As a kid I loved Transformers and G.I. Joe. I'm looking forward to both movies this summer. I own two versions of Trivial Pursuit, and a great board game I used to play as a child called Careers. Now that I'm thinking about it, Hasbro has given me a lot of enjoyment in my life. Don't tell them I use to play with He-Man as well.But I don't believe corporate rhetoric just because it comes from a company I like. Of course, I don't disbelieve corporate rhetoric just because I don't like the company. Sony did make a bonehead decision a few years ago with respect to music piracy. No, they didn't stop selling it. What happened was when a user bought a CD from Sony, they had to install  some software on their computer to play it. This software also installed, without the user's knowledge or consent, a rootkit. This created a huge security compromise for users' computers that had it. Sony put-up a patch that supposedly fixed the issue, but in reality it simply installed in new and different rootkit.</blockquote>

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