Researchers: Your IP is logged within 3 hours of downloading a torrent

A computer security researcher and his team have discovered what they describe as massive monitoring of BitTorrent download websites by copyright enforcement organizations, security companies and government research labs. Tom Chothia from the University of Birmingham, UK, further noted that...

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Protip: Only download torrents which take less than 3 hours to download.

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To build a case to have any site that hosts links to torrents to be banned via ICE

Protip: use an RDP to download the torrent.

Pretty vague on technical details. The paper's not dated. The last period of monitoring seems to be May 2011.
The year "2012" is mentioned only twice...both times in the "biblio".

Didn't see anything in the paper making this newsworthy.

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Use newsgroups with a VPN.

Nm actually....keep using torrents.

Good thing you can't track people by their IP.

That won't stop them from going after you though, just force the ISP to give name of person who was attached to that IP at a given time and assume they are guilty.

Good thing they only go after poor people.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the rich will do anything to get your $$.

Well... they wouldn't want to target someone who can afford to defend themselves in court.

Wonder how many threatening calls the anonymous proxy operators get. If you're not using one of those or TOR, you should be.

Well, I'm glad piracy is legal in my country

I am lucky too, as hardly people know about torrents in my country, I can happily go about torrenting. These filthy rich regulators, tryin to clamp things down.

Ha good luck with that holding up in court, you can counter sue them for obtaining your personal information illegally and sue your ISP for handing it over, either way you would win as it's your ISP responsibility to keep your personal information safe that you have handed over to them, and it's illegal practise as a company to hassle your ISP for your information, even something simple like your phone number is illegal to obtain if you are on the http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html list.

They would have the change ToS agreements and in the UK ToS agreements don't hold up at all in a court of law I don't see why companies even bother with them over here!

have you paid attention to any news? tons of people have said this and not many have ever won against a corporation.

I guess this isn't really that surprising as it's probably quite easy to track - whats more surprising/worrying is what they're actually going to do with this data as you say - is it just for analysis or is it going to be to prosecute people with? Im glad I'm not really a serial downloader - legally acquired 99% of the music, 80% of the movies and 100% of the games that I own, and never really hop on to download any of "the latest thing", but still you can never be sure of what they have picked up on who.

I know others have mentioned about the grey areas of tying someone to an IP adress but I have a feeling that the law around this could all change quite soon.

What so they are going to take billions of people to court? Don't be silly no matter how corporate some companies are, someone is going to notice, you only hear of one every now and then and that ends up in the news.
The truth of the matter is millions of people are downloading torrents world wide, I doubt in the UK this would even be entertained in a court of law especially if a corporation obtained information on you illegally, as soon as evidence of that is proven then any case is dismissed from court, R.Kelly got away with accusations of child molestation because the evidenced obtained on him came from questionable legal grounds.(I'm not saying he did anything wrong but I'm also not saying he didn't, just the evidence was thrown out of court)

I'm sure millions of other court battles have ended on the same grounds of illegal evidence, especially where corporations are involved. I think that a lot of the time when it's a civilian being sued they either don't know the law to use it against the companies or they don't have enough money for a high end solicitor who does.

I don't understand this point of view at all... regulators, cops, auditors etc... none of them are rich. The lawyers who would sue might be rich, but the poor sap who's gotta do all the grunt work isn't rich or he'd stop doing such a crappy job.

I'll bet they track all sorts of data about torrents. Not so they can sue, but figure out ways to fight it and discourage people from using it. They're not planning on suing you. For what? Your entire bank account plus your car wouldn't pay for their legal fees. Anyone sued would just file for bankruptcy anyway and it'd be a huge waste of time and money that wouldn't accomplish anything.

Oh my god! my neighbor is going to jail. Sense I was on his wifi. With a spoofed mac address.

Dan UK you said that 99% of the music and 80 of movies. You know that it only takes 1 to 6 to get you a letter claiming that you owe about 800,000 for copyright infringement. So that %1 music and %20 movie is a very good chance that they already have you.