are they really after all the individual peers? or the people running the sites?
[QUOTE=NA_Magus;3267534]That sort of thinking is fallacy, for the mere fact, the way the law works. Any file they would be downloading, is owned by a client they are representing. Or the law doesn't look at that, the exact same way the DEA makes bust by making a 'buy' from drug dealers.....
I'm rather skeptical about these kinds of programs - if the government or RIAA or whatever really wants to nab you - I think its easy to find ways around or circumvent these programs. And in reality, no government will go after petty users like us. Cut the head off the snake, thats why being in the scene is so risky.
The worst that can happen (and it still has yet to happen to me, even when I used public trackers or demonoid), is getting a notice from your ISP. And alot of that seems to happen for just released CAM's or things like that early release of xmen.
IMO its like a placebo, except it can block valid IP's =/
Last edited by Rart; 08-09-2009 at 10:08 PM.
First of all you can't be this naive, second of all, the RIAA/MPAA/SONY is not the government, they are private corporations, as have they have gone after "petty" users....
http://torrentfreak.com/student-hit-...a-case-090731/
Last edited by EyeCandy; 08-09-2009 at 11:10 PM.
He used kazaa.
He probably uploaded his own rips, to a publicly available source. Why do you think this doesn't happen to most BT users? Don't upload content, especially to public sharing places. They don't have time to go after everyone one of us.
There really isn't much to debate here. If people want to use it, they can. It is available for free and does not seem to hurt much, if anything.
If a list like this was built into every BT client, then there could be problems for those who had the misfortune of being on the "black list". As it stands, only a small portion of the community seem to be using it.
For the most part, PeerBlock has continually refused connections with same servers. So far, I have only seen 10-15 unique names. If these are being blocked erroneously,the end effect to the down-loader should be minimal. There are a lot of seeds on the sites I am currently connected to.
I cannot imagine large corporations going through the effort of setting up servers, to "infiltrate" private sites, and seed their own products (or those of their clients) endlessly without some end game in mind.
Perhaps they are only collecting data to see how many units of their product(s) are being distributed. That would be the most benign possibility. They could also be collecting data so they can report how much "damage" is being done to their companies. As more information is collected, we could see these numbers being used against our community of file-sharers and as a reason to limit free use of the internet.
Regardless, I personally believe that limiting information about ourselves and our community is always a plus.
Read the article, he's just now going to court, but he used Kazaa FIVE years ago in 2004, when it was popular, even then he was only sharing 30 songs. I'm pretty sure you used Kazaa or some variation of it(WinMx) five years ago. And its easier to get caught in the BT World, then in the P2P world, I can turn sharing off in P2P, and just download. But, seeding is essentially part of the bittorrent protocol....
Last edited by EyeCandy; 08-10-2009 at 02:12 AM.
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