Federal judge rules that data sent through peer-to-peer file sharing is not private

Federal judge rules that data sent through peer-to-peer file sharing is not private
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Some potential new legal precedence is being set by a federal judge in Vermont, after ruling that data shared via peer-to-peer file-sharing services should not be expected to be private.

The ruling came out of a case regarding child pornography, where the defendants attempted to have evidence dismissed based on the grounds in which it was obtained. The three defendants said that police scooped the pertinent data from a peer-to-peer network illegally, without a warrant.

In this case, law enforcement had made use of the Child Protection System, which is an assortment of software tools designed to track down child pornography online. The tools send out automated searches for files known to contain data of this kind, and then maps out matching files with an IP address, data and time, as well as various other details about the particular computer.

District Court Judge Christina Reiss denied the motion to have the scraped data be dismissed, saying that the defendants gave up any privacy they had by making the files available through the P2P service. Even though the police software was entirely automated, Reiss says that the data could have been obtained manually or by a member of the public just the same.

“The evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the only information accessed was made publicly available by the IP address or the software it was using,” Judge Reiss explains. “Accordingly, either intentionally or inadvertently, through the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, Defendants exposed to the public the information they now claim was private.”

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U.S. will not file with Supreme Court in Argentina debt case

WASHINGTON | Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:44pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will not file a brief next week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Argentina’s case in a decades-old battle between the South American country and “holdout” creditors, a Justice Department spokesman said on Friday.

Over the last decade, holdout investors and Argentina have sparred in the U.S. courts over the South American country’s $ 100 billion default in 2002. Holdouts declined to take part in two restructurings in 2005 and 2010 that drew participation from 93 percent of bondholders, who accepted returns as low as 25 cents on the dollar.

Argentina is asking the Supreme Court to void an October 2012 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, which found it had violated a clause in its bond documents requiring it to treat all creditors equally.

The appeals court has not yet ruled on whether to require Argentina to pay the holdout bondholders. A ruling in their favor would put Argentina on the hook for more than $ 1.3 billion in payments and risk the country’s default.

The Supreme Court decides to hear less than 1 percent of the thousands of petitions that are filed each year.

The Supreme Court generally gives more weight to requests from the government than it does other parties, but the Justice Department rarely files friend-of-the-court briefs before the court has decided to hear a case, unless the justices ask it to.

“I am only aware of a couple instances where it has done so in the past 15 or 20 years,” said John Elwood, a lawyer in Washington who formerly worked in the Justice Department.

The International Monetary Fund plans to file a brief in support of the case next week, by the court’s July 26 deadline, if it gets approval from its board. In a paper, the IMF said a ruling against Argentina could have broad implications for future sovereign debt restructurings.

The Supreme Court is on its summer break and won’t decide whether to hear the case until the fall.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley and David Ingram, Writing by Anna Yukhananov; Editing by Eric Beech)

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U.S. will not file with Supreme Court in Argentina debt case