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[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3722428.stm[/URL]
Is there any real reason for this? They'll take one person out, but you can guarantee that another will come along and share files as normal...
> Cracking down? 1 person in every 500,000 gets sued?
I like those odds!
I'm not stopping for a kit-kat...I'll happily stand up in court and give the media my 2 cents on the subject.
> How would they track you if you were using bittorrent?
>
> Is it possible?
Very easy to do. Bittorrent shows you who you are connected to by showing you the IP address. All they have to do is track the IP to the ISP who will give them who was logged in at that time. Probably even easier than that.
Basically they are going to sue people that are using Kazaa and similar networks, where a single person is actually share single files and have 100's or 1000's of songs for share.
> Hedfix wrote:
> Cracking down? 1 person in every 500,000 gets sued?
>
> I like those odds!
I made them up.
> Very easy to do. Bittorrent shows you who you are connected to by
> showing you the IP address. All they have to do is track the IP to
> the ISP who will give them who was logged in at that time. Probably
> even easier than that.
Will the BPI really have time to do this?
In effect, if they wanted to sue everyone, they'd have to look at each torrent, each person connected to it and where the torrent was made.
Bit-torrent is a real difficult thing for the BPI, it's serverless meaning that people can set up a link and just share it between them.
Which is why more 'static' networks like Kazaa are being probed.
> adrian wrote:
> Very easy to do. Bittorrent shows you who you are connected to by
> showing you the IP address. All they have to do is track the IP to
> the ISP who will give them who was logged in at that time. Probably
> even easier than that.
>
> Will the BPI really have time to do this?
>
> In effect, if they wanted to sue everyone, they'd have to look at
> each torrent, each person connected to it and where the torrent was
> made.
>
> Bit-torrent is a real difficult thing for the BPI, it's serverless
> meaning that people can set up a link and just share it between them.
>
>
> Which is why more 'static' networks like Kazaa are being probed.
Thats why I said they are basically going after big sharers on Kazaa and other networks like it.
Cookie wanted to know if its easy to track somebody on Bittorrent, which it is. There have been incidents that have resulted in film/TV companies emailing ISPs about users downloading specific files from Bittorrent, and the ISPs emailed the users to warn them.
> Bah i'd like to see them try, i've got Johnny Cochrane's number on
> speed-dial :-D
No Jury or Judge can hold up against the Chewbacca defence.
The music Industry just needs to adapt to the modern age
Sorry about the rant... i totally agree that there are only a handful of songs on some albums you will listen to regularly, therefore downloading is appropriate. todays generation of kids probably wont know what a CD is by the time they get to 12, and computer downloading will be the way forward. The music industry = Extortionate prices. The same goes for computer games.
> No Jury or Judge can hold up against the Chewbacca defence.
Very, very true