This is How We Catch You Downloading

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All over Europe thousands of people are being threatened with court action for allegedly sharing games like Dream Pinball 3D on P2P networks. Now, documents obtained by TorrentFreak show details of the anti-piracy company’s techniques for identifying alleged file-sharers on the internet and the gathering of claimed ‘forensic quality’ evidence for use in court cases.

In March TorrentFreak reported in some detail about the case of 500 UK file-sharers being legally pursued following claims that they uploaded games from the German publisher ‘Zuxxez’ onto file-sharing networks. Since then, many people have been in touch with the law firm who sent the threatening letters, demanding evidence that they actually did something. TorrentFreak has obtained copies of the latest letters and within the claimed evidence is a description of how the anti-piracy system used by Logistep AG (the company hired to track the alleged pirates) is supposed to work.


The cleverly named “File Sharing Monitor” is the system being used by Logistep to gather evidence against file-sharers. It is actually just a modified version of the Shareaza P2P application that is configured to search for infringing files, and collect the information from the hosts that share these files.


The “File Sharing Monitor” only targets Gnutella and eDonkey users, so it is still unclear how they track down BitTorrent users. Here is how it works:

More after the link.

:source: Source: http://torrentfreak.com/this-is-how-...u-downloading/

Thanks! I really needed this info seeing how my sister got one of those letters for downloading (albeit a torrent)

interesting

very interesting, thanks.

oh noes !
/me turns off KazAa and run

Nice....

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oh noes !
iNSOMNiA turns off KazAa and run

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Still was usin' Kazaa, huh? :pinch:

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:lol:



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this ones good
thx

thx, interesting info

what's next chasing us on the streets :)

i hope not