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| Thread ID: 118969 | 2011-06-29 03:12:00 | Internet Downloading Bill | Empathy. (16382) | PC World Chat |
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| 1213124 | 2011-07-01 03:03:00 | Nah, there'll be a test case and the swine that this legislation is will be laughed out of court with the brilliant politicians who passed the Bill looking red-faced and everyone saying "na-na-naa-na-nah we told you so"! I mean, how the hell do you enforce this without breaking laws yourself? Realistically the only way illegal stuff can be proved is if the record companies crack into your computer, and that in itself is illegal. | mookster1 (15854) | ||
| 1213125 | 2011-07-01 03:49:00 | No, that's not entirely correct Lets be clear: The MPAA and RIAA are *not* about to sit back, see we have a new law, then specifically target people in NZ. Not going to happen. They're going to continue doing as they have done, except now it's going to be easier for them to prosecute people in NZ when they *do* find somebody connected to a torrent from within this country. Let me quickly explain what happens: Jane shares a movie, she creates a .torrent and uploads that torrent to The Pirate Bay. She starts sharing the movie, she is what's known as a Seeder. Bob grabs this .torrent from The Pirate Bay, he begins downloading. He's at work, so it finishes bloody quickly and he begins sharing. He is also a now a Seeder. Sally is at home, she grabs the .torrent from The Pirate Bay and begins downloading, but because she's capped it's going to take days. She is known as a "leecher" because she hasn't yet finished downloading. The MPAA sees this new release movie has been released on The Pirate Bay. They also grab the .torrent. They don't *have* to download it at all, all they do is interrogate the torrent tracker (The Pirate Bay in this case) and tell The Pirate Bay they want the IP's of some people so they can download the .torrent contents (Even though they don't have to download it). They note down the details of the 3 people connected, both Jane, Bob & Sally. Sally then gives up and decides it's not worth the pain, later the next day, she can't be bothered, so she cancels the download. The following day she gets an email from her ISP. They're passing on the details from the MPAA that they detected her IP Address was connected to The Pirate Bay Tracker, downloading file XYZ, filesize of 4.37GB, this date & time, and that she was only leeching it at the time they caught her. This is her first infraction so her ISP warns her not to do it again or risk a $15,000 fine, or her internet being cut off. No hacking. No cracking (Cracking is technically the correct term for what you're describing, but that's a story for another day), and nothing illegal from the MPAA. Hell, you can fire up a .torrent now and if you have a look in uTorrent it'll give you the IP Address of half a dozen people that you're connected to and sharing / leeching the .torrent from. It's dead easy, and not shady in the slightest ;) Let me find a screenshot... Edit: Bingo, that was easy: utorrent3.com |
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