The difference is that most murderers are caught. The vast, vast majority of people who commit crimes over the Internet (or copyright violation) are not caught or punished in any way. Yes, the cops bring people in, but they're little more than tokens used to scare people. Why do you think piracy is rampant and murder is not? Because getting away with piracy is a piece of cake. Even the piracy filesharing hosts (insofar as hosts exist) such as the Pirate Bay and Isohunt publicly exist, with servers that you can find. No murderer exists like that before being caught.

The US homicide solve rate is only 70%, and that counts a lot of suicides and accidental deaths in there.  The actual murder solve rate is even lower.  It's mostly on account of criminals being fucking morons that they solve hardly any of them.

hm.. theres not a real solution for solving trolls only, or pirates only or any of that sort

like kryo said, once privacy is gone  its gone, and surely peoplewill try to "improve" the rule for their need,  more tracking and being able to see and thus control what is going on,

as soon as some "popular"guy is constnatly nagging you on a forum where everyone is behind him (friends) you'll just think... w/e fuck the guy ima move on (on most occasions anyways)

having this number stuck to you forever will not do much good

tiny example is a minigame of warcraft III    called Battleships,  game creator = a totall ass (in my vieuw)  since he banned my name from his game there, reason?    i aproached him of his manner on his quotes to the losing team or people that quit the game (multiple reasons possible),(ima not repeat that sentence here, wont do me and...  err.,.... .. yah.  wont do me much good on the "never swears" list)

anyways,  he banned me for that, and if i should have an ID number attached ima guess he wouldve banned that one aswell... atleast now i can just make another name and play his games anyways (cuase even tough i dont like him, his game = great)

and yeah,  the id nubmer in question should ofcourse.. not be public  but you'll always have people that find a way in.

thing that makes internet great = anonymity  on the internet you can talk whats in your mind without major consequence, you'll find people whom totally agree with you, and people who are totally opposite,  and ofocurse the local jerk/troll  but you'll ignore those or start making fun of them

in real-life everyone knows your face, so you cant rlly talk with the words your having in mind.... and you'll always find some "weird" guys that aproach you and start doing dumb things (real life trolls???)  but you'll just ignore those 2 (best and prolly only thing to do..for your own health)

so that short, internet a place where peopel can express opininos without fysical consequence, adding an i-d tag to someone will take that away,  and ofcourse theres peopel who'll abuse it by placing quotes that are just mean,  but like trolls.. you ignore them

GW, that was in response to Dead saying most murderers get caught.  It's... perhaps accurate, but misleading either way.

You're kidding, right?  Its much higher than 70%.  Look at NCIS, CSI Miami, CSI NY, CSI Las Vegas, Law and Order, Life, NYPD Blue, and Criminal Minds.  If you commit a murder, your ass will be caught within an hour...42 minutes if you dont count the commercials.  I don't kill people on a daily basis almost entirely due to the fact I don't want David Caruso showing up at my door and making me confess in a over-blubbery fashion to some crime I thought I would get away with.

Based on real-life shows like these, I would put the solve-rate for murders and other violent crimes (at least in America) more around 98.4%.  It would be closer to 100%, but sometimes it takes a 2nd episode or is split between the season finale and the next season's premiere to catch the guy, and that lowers the average a little.

Each country will have to make a decision between the fallowing:

1) Risk seeing some text on a computer screen which calls you a f-tard.  (To use a phrase from the rather vulgur article.)

2) Give up freedom and privacy.

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

Just remember that before you advocate a government which actively monitors and controls every communication on the internet.  It could lead to disaster, and you still might get called an f-tard.

lol your not actually thinking crime solving works like NCIS programs?   theres bene a debate recently that judges and jury should be remeberd that NCIS is just a show  and that they shouldnt expect that much from real life investigators  (poor guys investigating)

im not sure if i like your humor -.-

I decided he was serious a while back, perhaps not rational, but serious.  Objectivity is a hard thing to maintain when an issue becomes personal, you've probably noticed that emotionally charged debates usually end up with both sides ranting and raving like lunatics, yes?

Dude, that was an absolutely hilarious response.