me automatically download all the music to go along with someone's playlist that I trust? I have eclectic tastes in music, but generally I don't want to indiscriminately mix genres (discriminately mixing genres for a playlist is something else). Playlist functionality would be a useful addition to all these online systems. Third, people always talk about the social benefits of Original Napster-like collection browsing. Doesn't software like this provide almost the same social benefits (and in some ways, more), while being fully legitimate? November 05, 2003 The Guardian has an interesting story on the rise of child pornography on P2P networks ( Race to save new victims of child porn ). Rather than simply bemoan it, the article points out how it has increased the ability of police to investigate. The main problem seems to be that there are too many targets to investigate, not that they can't be found. The article quotes David Wilson, professor of criminology at the University of Central England in Birmingham, as saying that, The achilles heel of peer-to-peer is that it makes something that is secret and furtive into something that is public and when it is public that offers the police a window of opportunity to police it. Indeed, the article goes on to note: Paedophiles believe it is harder for them to be detected through peer-to-peer software but investigators are able to access their shared folders and quickly discover if they contain illegal images of child abuse. They are then able to