I disagree with this. My empeg belongs to me, unless I sell it. If someone has it in their posession, it still belongs to me. If someone steals my empeg, wipes the hard drives and sells it on ebay, it still belongs to me. If I sell or give my empeg away, then it doesn't belong to me.

Having something I own report it's location to me is not an invasion of anyones privacy. No theif has the right to hide stolen goods. I really don't see where you're coming from on this one...

I would love to have this work, and I doubt the traffic generated by it would be huge. 1,000 empegs reporting every hour would hardly tax a dsl line. The real problem is that it would be best implemented in emplod so that USB could trigger it.

Matthew