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

What I question is why the 3 hour delay. Your IP can be logged within seconds. As soon as others appear on your connected and downloading list I figure should be the logged begin time. As soon as you have a connection. The trackers log is I guess public information. And to spoof a tracker should be easy. Not like they operate with certs. or anything. The only thing the encryption should be a little harder to crack. But I am sure many spineless hackers are working on it.

What everyone seems to be missing in all of this is that given the trend of piracy through Torrent files, that file format is going to become illegal. Now all the uber nerds are going to hop on and give little quips about how they do this thing and wont get caught. Or they do this other thing and they dont get caught. Face it ppl, it would be a lot easier for them to completly outlaw Torrent files and then go after ppl.
I have heard many say that many other files go out on Torrent that isnt piracy. That is where they get you. They regulate who can use something then punish those that dont have permission. So they pass a Law, and start throwing ppl in jail or hitting them with fines. Its a grim future for the net. Now maybe if ppl would stop pirating long enough for those idjits in power to move on to a different subject, but that aint going to happen.

I don't think it is about pirating mr. You are on the wrong track. The FBI could care less wether you download a boobie movie or not. They are going after the pirates because of all the hacking that has been going on where sensitive info is released. They didn't even give a sh I t when campanies got hacked and money and credit card info was stollen. They started busting when sensitive info about opratives were released. That is what screwed all of us. That hackers had to be big mouth and release that crap to everyone. If they kept their big braging mouth shut there would be no trouble. But the FBI figures if they squise the pirates and procecute. They will soon get close to catching the hackers. It is a good shot in the dark. It be interesting to see that they can't get one on hacking a national security database. But they get the ***** on downloading a movie or a song and ruining him financialy. Or getting someone on cracking something instead of hacking a top secret web site. Kudos FBI.

No realy. What everyone seems to be missing is that torrent files can contain anything. You can imbed anything in the install package. Especially piratade os software. You can make it so where you got your own lailored task manager that does not show rogue processes. So one cannot even see processes or even stuff on the disk. You could be a zombie and not even antivirus software can see anything since most of that software is fake. It could tell you its the best antivirus and not be anything more than a software to keep other hackers out but give total access to the bot net owner. And you been gotten through your own greed of not wanting to buy your os. Or try the newest that is not for sale yet. Now how does this affect the rest of us. Think about it when even google was taken down for a couple of weeks. How anoying is that. 500,000 thousand stupid users infected and all of the suden no google. One day there will be no internet for a couple of months but we all can live without internet. Will just take a long walk in the park to blow off steam. So no dont care if torrents go away all together. Because if I miss the release of a movie I probably will find it years later on a garage sale for penies.

Fully aware! Just hoping they'd go for the big sharks first ;P

thats not the point I was making at all, I was arguing yours.

It really doesnt matter what we say to those ppl who chose to pirate via Torrent sites. They will just have some assinine response that they have thought up justifing their actions. Then when the US govt does something REALLY draconian and messed up that puts the screws to those that pirate, we will hear from them "Oh no one told me it was illegal" or better yet "Why am I being persecuted? I only downloaded a couple of movies". In the end, these ppl chose to continue those actions. When the BS finally does hit them, everyone will have the "I told you so's" ready and waiting.

I got tracked on two movies. I got emails from Verizon explaining the process. In the email it stated the movie companies also pirate the "popular" torrents to track the IPs that connect to their server. All the IPs are recorded and every few months they send lists of IPs to the the ISPs. The ISPs send emails to the people responsible for the download based off the name on the account, which was me. They told me they didn't give out any of my personal info and would only do so with a court order.

I download some movies because it is ridiculous to have to pay $20 for me and my wife to go to the movies and another $20 if I want popcorn and a drink. I work full time, she goes to medical school full time and we have a 3 year old. I can't afford going to the movies. I know this is no justifiable excuse but maybe if the companies made things more reasonable this wouldn't be as big of a problem.

I searched the net for "websites that file lawsuits regarding the use of video downloader software" and found few pertinent search results other than the following ZD Net.com post as follows: "Every Inch Counts: Porn Filesharing Lawsuits Crest 30K Defendants."
How timely that I would find the current page mere hours later.

Ip adress is not proof of identity.

Same as if a car thief runs someone over in your stolen car you will not go to jail.

This has an unnecessary foreboding to it. They are collecting it for research. Sure some of it is for sending out those FUD "we have your IP" letters to ISP. Surely some are intended to for ill-fated lawsuits (ie the lawsuit is unlikely to work in most cases). But mostly it is what it is, research.

The MAFIAA isn't totally dumb. They do know that sharing helps their industry. Tracking IP gives excellent marketing research to them. People buy more music and movies than they ever did and sharing makes it happen by providing a no risk inroad to potential customers that is free for the media companies. Just like The War on Drugs, the only ones who support the war are those who benefit: drug dealers and enforcement. They get paid. Same with the War on Piracy. And of course now and then they do symbolic busts which disproportionately hurt the poor to keep the FUD going.

But if we all stop believing the hype then the drug pushers lose their power. Share and share alike.

Peace

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