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Posted by Don M. on 08/29/05 03:50
"anthonyberet" wrote in message news:3nf56hF166vdU1@individual.net...
> Don M. wrote:
> > BitTorrent logs (confiscated from sites forced to shut down) being used to identify
and
> > sue movie sharers??
> > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5843082.html
> >
> > The logs and this...
> > <quote>
> > BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has warned in the past that using his technology to
> > distribute material illegally is a "dumb idea," because the file-swapping tool is not
> > designed to hide the identity of anyone using it.
> > <end quote>
> >
>
> Bram may have a point - all those IPs are available when the torrent is
> running. What can most trackers show though? - That a .torrent wa
> downloaded, but not the file, and that a load of IPs were scraped, but
> not the file.
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A tracker response shows number of users with incomplete files and number of users with
complete files, and their IP addresses. If a site keeps logs of responses, then it's just
a matter of confiscating and sorting through such logs eliminating ones with more than 0
incompletes. The remaining entries are of seeders and their IP addresses. The next step
is to associate trackers with specific files and you have ammo for a John Doe lawsuit. I
could be wrong, though.
Don
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