ISP Information:
This term refers to anything that's on the Internet, as in "I've got this great online resource for you to check out at www.geek.com."
ISP Glossary:
Online - Pat, this is not for publication, especially not under my name (whatyou choose to post is up to you, but I'm getting tired of dealing withthose who don't wish to have their view of reality disturbed in anyway, especially by something like truth). However I just thought youmight find this article interesting, given some of the recentdiscussions on how journalists don't bother to check facts once theyare handed a press release by the government. What do you want to betthat even if these guys have done nothing illegal, the powers that bewill not just drop the charges and go away?In my mind it should be considered journalistic malpractice to justtake a government press release and rewrite it as though it were 100%factual, since it almost never is!http://p2pnet.net/story/2269UDGNET to AP, DoJ, FBI -p2pnet.net News:- Yesterday we reported the first criminal actionlaunched by US police agencies against a specific p2p group.Name of the group?The Underground Network.p2pnet heard from the group's the Answer Man, as he refers to himselfwith more than a hint of irony:Now read on >>>>>>>>>>>>>Hello everyone. As many now may know, the FBI and DoJ have executedsearch warrants on some of us, and questioned others (myselfincluded). It's unfortunate they cannot get their facts straightbefore spouting off to the press. (Same goes for the press ... theyreally should be checking their facts.)To those who have no clue what I'm talking about, try GoogleNews. (search for: underground network p2p)If you read an article, and came here looking for answers or arecurious as to what's going on, I'm about to fill you in. After all,I'm the "Answer Man". (Was odd to hear the FBI refer to me by thattitle as too.)There have been many misconceptions in the handful of articles I'veread. They all claim to be the same article by Curt Anderson of theAssociated Press. Funny how I've read 30 different versions of thesame article, written by the same person. It's difficult to tell howmany facts were blatently wrong to begin with, but it's downrightupsetting how many are currently wrong. I could never begin to explainall the misconstuded facts, as I haven't read them all.However, I would like to clear up a few "facts" I've read about aplace I've been involved in for some time. That place: The UndergroundNetwork.First off, I've yet to figure out the "100 Gigabyte minimumrequirement" claim for joining the network. What is it to join thenetwork anyway? What is the network? These are the questions so manyhave wrong. If you're talking about the forums ... which is the onlything there IS to join in any sense, then there are no requirements.Well, no requirements past having access to a computer, the Internet,and an email account, plus being older then 13 (or lying that youare). It's the standard "requirements" of any other vB forum. Thereare thousands of them out there. Check Google.So that must not be what they are talking about when they say "membersare required to share 100gb of copyrighted material to join" (quotinga story posted to the Register.co.uk). Excuse me? If they are talkingabout the hubs, well, you don't "join the network" to login to ahub. You connect to one of the hubs with our name in it. That's reallyall there is to it. We are just a collection of people with similarinterests (read the forums to learn some of them) who also helpeachother out in the hubs.To join a hub (like all other 13,000+ Direct Connect hubs out there,besides ours), you need a preset "minshare" that the hub decides. Thatis, files you are willing to share with other users in that hub. We doNOT police these files beyond the stuff we KNOW is illegal (underageporn, beastality, etc). Beyond that we are very clear with one point:THE USER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SHARE!If you connect to one of the hubs with our name on it and are sharingfiles you shouldn't, then YOU made a boo-boo. Not us. The media andthe FBI seem to have missed this point. I've seen write-ups about howmuch info "is stored on" or "passes through hubs". They claim "up
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