said by OZO:said by StuartMW:Who needs three letter agencies when you have the RIAA/MPAA etc?
Exactly... And they need to remind us about themselves time after time.
Yep remind us just enough so they can use the excuse to develop more intrusive techniques to monitor and pidgonhole us.
Whilst l'm against pirating myself i do see it becoming the new "broke" Prohibition in the 2000's.
"The "who" is not altogether clear. The researchers were able to identify about 10 monitoring firms logging content, out of which a few could be identified as copyright-enforcement organisations, security firms or even other research labs."
Why the big interest/analysis of such data........?
It certainly is overkill for the "community standards" setting for crime.