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See What You Share is a shrill, over-the-top website on the P2P menace. If you use P2P software, your identity is going to be stolen! If you use P2P software, your children are going to be raped and killed! P2P provides safe haven for pedophiles!

From that last:

However, unlike the Internet, P2P is virtually unregulated. As a result, it becomes inherently easy to find digital information that cannot be found anywhere else.

With all the author’s interest in P2P networks, you’d think he might have noticed that every single public network is using the Internet. What you find on them, you’re finding on the Internet.

The first two articles raise an important point — you need to understand what you’re sharing. This is a matter of configuring your software. It’s an issue that doesn’t come up with BitTorrent. His scary warning scenarios are plausible for careless users; they are avoidable for careful users. He omits the latter point.

As for the last, P2P networks aren’t even a safe haven for copyright violators. In all the big P2P networks, your IP address is public. Your ISP can be subpoenaed for your identity. People sharing child porn on P2P networks can be found, arrested, and prosecuted with existing laws and processes.

Are those processes complicated and difficult in ways? Yes. But claiming “P2P provides safe haven for pedophiles,” or that “no one seems to care what is being shared […] as long as it is shared via P2P” is simply wrong.