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Posted by anthonyberet on 09/25/16 11:25
Don M. wrote:
> "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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> =========
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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.
>
- I think it depends on the tracker site code.
Some are more complex than others. Some sites record your u/d ratio
for example - these could be of use I suppose.
At their simplest, they don't record much though - I don't think they
even record who has complete or incomplete, only that the IP is
participating.
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