The idea of recording ALL data that passes through a computer is rediculous. Take this website alone. You would then have to store several different versions of every single thread, one for each time you view it. A gaming PC like mine would be a nightmare. Of course that is thinking "home PC" not "server" which will already log most of the data going through it, part of being a server.

What the RIAA and so on really seem to be missing is that most downloaded stuff would not be bought. If you took away downloads we would just live without it. The other one - the idea that people would pay for a pirate copy of a film that was recorded using a camera in the cinema, I'm willing to bet that most people would only do it once.

As for CSI - I personally love when they take a low definiton CCTV frame, zoom in on a pixel then use the magic enhancement button to resolve it into a car number plate in about 3 seconds.