In the spirit of the season, I thought I’d try to find out who’s been naughty, who’s been nice, and who’s been torrenting at work.
In the spirit of the season, I thought I’d try to find out who’s been naughty, who’s been nice, and who’s been torrenting at work.
I’ve probably torrented 50 files in the last 30 days from a static address and that site only logged one transfer..
Someone’s gotta know the CBC’s netblock?
Well, it couldn’t find my IP address and I use Bittorrent on a fairly frequent basis. Something tells me that there might be some major bugs in their program.
However, for the people using dynamic IPP addresses, this is not reliable. And that’s probably a majority of normal home users.
The authors acknowledge the issue, but claim to also save time-stamps, which aren’t considered in their display (but could be used if, say, professionals are checking on copyright violations). The danger is, of course, if you’re checking up on a friend but there’s been a dynamic IP reassignment, the results will be wrong.
Remember that if you’re checking up on your kids. Pretty irresponsible, I think.
what? Illegally download French lessons and then submit a phoney bill? …never!
everybody’s doing it…even the ones that do the suing…does this mean the RIAA is going to sue itself and demand it’s ISP block them ? after all, they even want bars to pay royalties on music it’s patrons hear…music coming from commercials on the bar’s TV.
http://consumerist.com/2011/12/report-someone-at-the-riaa-downloaded-9-million-worth-of-pirated-dexter-episodes.html
The hallowed halls of the Recording Industry Association of America, where all music is bought at full price and never shared, lest people face violations of up to $150,000 per pirated item, has reportedly been infiltrated by ne’er-do-wells who think they can BitTorrent copyrighted material at work and not be caught.
According to the folks at TorrentFreak, a check of the RIAA’s IP addresses on YouHaveDownloaded.com show that someone at the association actually downloaded a torrent with the entire first five seasons of Dexter. Sixty episodes at $150,000 per violation would equal $9 million.
There was also an episode of Law & Order: SVU that apparently went straight to an IP address at the RIAA, so slap on another $150,000.
whatever happened to the old ways of copying music ? 😉
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lliii1BcQU1qze4yyo1_500.jpg
Rick in BC, my IP address has been the same for the last 1.5 years and my heaviest bittorrent use was when I accidently left my bittorrent server running when I went on holidays a year ago. The files from a TV series that my wife wanted seemed to be especially popular as there were about 30 Gb of uploads from that directory. I think that would be enough to get my IP address noticed but it didn’t show up. There are some major bugs in this program, IMO.