SR4 meets real life, Your lisense, registration and any computer devices please... Options

[hobgoblin]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/20...n-the-house.ars

Why do i find myself contemplating access ids, and how they will interact with this kind of courtroom activity?

At first it had me wonder why Spoof was not a illegal program, but then it dawned on me that spoof can be used by security companies and individuals in the process of investigation and such. So in the same ways as a gun it needs the ability to be licensed to approved individuals, as do Spoof and the other programs of that nature. Hackers in the shadow sense are not approved, but they can fake approval via forged paperwork.

I wonder how many hacker PCs actually have the appropriate licenses listed on their sheet, or any at all for that matter...

btw, i wonder if any media edit done with a properly bought and such Edit program using the computer skill leave markings in the file that can be traced back to the buyer. As such, any time someone upload a video to the SR equivalent of Youtube they get a automated legal "letter" about it. Or is simply charged a usage fee for each time the video gets played if it contains any content owned by the AAAs (the amount of bickering between AAAs should be interesting, if a video file is uploaded to a Horizon service that holds content from say Aztech media holdings or something).