All, Well yet again one of the IPC's favorite sons, the MPAA this time, has seen fit to be snoops and desires to snoop on your email via government assistance. But EFF is hopefully coming to the rescue. Good for them! Perhaps they should also get the assistance of the ACLU's Atty.'s as well. Is there any doubt that the MPAA like its twin the RIAA and their other Intellectual property paranoists need to be revoked from the IPC? No doubt in my and our members minds. I wonder if there is some way I can Enjoin this action? I do have a pending case! If so, I hope one of the EFF Atty's will contact me by phone or via Email. See: http://www.hothardware.com/ According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a http://www.hothardware.com/News/Electronic_Privacy_in_Jeopardy/ dangerous legal precedent has just been set that can potentially unravel existing federal privacy protections for e-mail and Internet usage. The http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/08/05 alert from the EFF is not just to sound a general warning, but it also takes the form of an Amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, filed with the federal 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, asking for the court's legal finding to be overturned... The findings of this case could become the foundation of a legal precedent upon which other similar cases can subsequently be based. If that were to be the case, then the unauthorized retrieving of e-mails from an e-mail server would not be considered a violation of the federal Wiretap Act, which will then open the door for government-sponsored snooping. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827