Posted by Paul Blay on 01/20/60 11:33

"anthonyberet" wrote ...
> They just search for the files they want to protect, and get your Ip if
> you are sharing them. Indications are that they don't download the files
> to see if they really are what they say they are. Also, there has only
> - to my knowledge- been one bust of a winmx user so far. This seems to
> be because it is difficult to get good evidence about infringement from
> winmx.

That's not to say they _couldn't_ do it in other ways, depending on
how much co-operation they can get from the authorities and the
ISPs. In Japan there was the famous case of the first Winny*
user to be prosecuted - initially solely on the basis of his "network
usage patterns".

* not a typo

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