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Can Police Etc Actually Track P2p Downloads?


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I was wondering if its actually possible for the authorities to track p2p networkin downloads? I am pretty sure it isnt unless there puttin stuff available to download on the p2p networks and then 'luring' people into downloading songs etc? Maybe they can track traffic on the servers and log ips??? :lol:

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I was wondering if its actually possible for the authorities to track p2p networkin downloads? I am pretty sure it isnt unless there puttin stuff available to download on the p2p networks and then 'luring' people into downloading songs etc? Maybe they can track traffic on the servers and log ips??? :lol:

I'm sure that would be entrapment and therefore very illegal.

However, your ISP can easily track what you're downloading. If the police wanted to, they could know exactly what you're downloading. Unless you're seeding lots of very big files, though, I wouldn't worry :lol:

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I'm sure that would be entrapment and therefore very illegal.

However, your ISP can easily track what you're downloading.  If the police wanted to, they could know exactly what you're downloading.  Unless you're seeding lots of very big files, though, I wouldn't worry :lol:

MPAA have been known to seed there own movie releases to get to high leechers and high downloaders. I know of atleast one Spiderman release that was theres. This is why you can find MPAA and RIAA IP block lists, so you don't download from known "agents" so to speak.

The police can do anything when working with the right people. You the average user wont have to worry that much, they are first taking down the big organisations, such as suprnova, lokitorrent, shareconnecter etc etc, then going for the VERY high usage users.

They sometimes pick off little ones, just to stir the water and leave a warning, but i highly doubt it will effect you. Yet anyway.

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It's pretty easy to find out most stuff about whats gone through your computer / net, unless your some kinda 'l33t h4xor' (lol) running on linux and smoothwalll with routers etc.

To be honest, you'd have to be doing some pretty heavy stuff for them to give a shit. (mass copying, underage porn, hacking, something along those lines)

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MPAA have been known to seed there own movie releases to get to high leechers and high downloaders. I know of atleast one Spiderman release that was theres.

So are you saying spiderman was put onto the net on perpose? :lol:

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im not sure if this is 100% true but i heard all those messed up songs that used to be on kazaa, (random noises after about 20 seconds) were created by RIAA or similar to put people off downloading.

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im not sure if this is 100% true but i heard all those messed up songs that used to be on kazaa, (random noises after about 20 seconds) were created by RIAA or similar to put people off downloading.

Hasnt stopped me, I just downlaod from reasonable fast connections say 100-400 now as most of the 500 plusers are crap..

Would explain things if its true

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It depends on what p2p network we're talking about here, but on most tracking users is fairly trivial. With bittorrent for instance, an interested party doesn't actually have to seed anything, they just have to connect to the tracker and they can see the IP of anyone who connects to them in any way. This is actually quite widely used AFAIK. With other networks you often don't even need to connect to download to see what people are offering for download...

Of course, they can always just bully the people who run the trackers and/or the torrent download sites into handing over their logs and then "catch" everyone who used that site; such as happened with lokitorrent (although to be fair I don't think there was much 'bullying' going on there, more mutual backscratching). In theory just having the logs to prove you downloaded a torrent isn't tantamount to to proving you downloaded the file itself, but then in theory there is absolutely nothing illegal about hosting torrent files that can be used to download copyrighted material - that hasn't stopped the MPAA yet though.

Basically, if you're using a public p2p network of any kind (with possibly the only exception being freenet) to download copyrighted material you can assume that it's fairly likely someone like the MPAA will have your IP. Although at the moment it's pretty unlikely that anything will happen about it unless you're a very heavy user.

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