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Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by angry_octet »

rootsudo wrote: post #416
angry_octet wrote: post #255

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You are very much not in the clear if you block like this. That's just delusional. Copyright monitoring firms have many endpoints that look like consumer ADSL/cable... because they are consumer connections.

Yes, but consumer ADSL/cable..are still..within the USA IP Address list block. By blocking the entire continent, if you are paranoid, you won't be on that list. I doubt they will engineer much of a solution for non-local markets e.g. UK instance catching USA Ip address, though in the end it is not that hard to move that metadata around.

They have many non-American endpoints, and local front companies, and they collaborate and pool data. They definitely had endpoints on a local ISP here, it was in the detail of some of the submissions that the IP they used was from the ISP.

https://delimiter.com.au/2011/08/30/wikileaks-cable-outs-sec...

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Post by sbarre »

contravariant wrote: post #323
sbarre wrote: post #140

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Canada currently uses a "notice and notice regime" [0], meaning the rights holder notifies the ISP, who turns around and forwards the notice to the infringing customer, but does not give the rights holder the account information, nor do they take any punitive action towards the customer. However, the ISP must retain historical data on these notices, so if in the future the laws change, rights holders could in theory…

>if in the future the laws change Almost no legal system works this way. You can't suddenly be found guilty of violating a law that didn't exist.

Just curious, are you a lawyer here in Canada?

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Post by carstenhag »

411111111111111 wrote: post #370
carstenhag wrote: post #108

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What, you only get emails ? In Germany you straight up get snail mails from lawyers demanding you to pay for the damages. But in Germany the only real bad thing is uploading, downloading by itself is more of a grey thing.

That is incorrect. Neither uploading nor downloading is strictly speaking forbidden. Only once it's been fully downloaded does it become illegal. Though a judge will likely defend the spirit of the law over the letter, making you guilty anyway. The issue why uploading is even more dangerous is because then the urheber can demand damages for lost sales as well. Don't take it on the light shoulder in Germany. Torrentun…

So, what you are saying is, that uploading is worse? That's what I said but in other words.

Re: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

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Post by nix23 »

jt94mf90d wrote: post #778
nix23 wrote: post #723

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In Hollywood's high-circles it's probably more like 15% (estimated)

Estimated 42% of hacker news users work in the tech industry.

True...nice to see that other peoples are in the Bigdata-oracle-thingi too, still i think it's 42.8% ;)
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