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RE: Honeypots & reccord industry
From: "David Watson" <david () honeynet org uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:21:13 -0000
Javier/Bruno, Other more advanced techniques are also used within the industry, such as flooding P2P networks with deliberately crippled copies of popular titles or monopolising the bandwidth of key nodes to make it hard for clients to obtain pirated copies. One company who offer this service commercially are Overpeer: http://www.overpeer.com/antipiracy.asp Thanks, David David Watson UK Honeynet Project www.ukhoneynet.org david () honeynet org uk -----Original Message----- From: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino [mailto:jfernandez () germinus com] Sent: 19 December 2005 09:07 To: Bruno Joho Cc: honeypots () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Honeypots & reccord industry Bruno Joho wrote:
Hi folks It came to my ears the reccord industry is collecting information about people sharing music files or publishing such files for download. They may using honeypot technology to get the data needed for proceedings judicially. Does anybody knows more about?
As far as I know, and this is public knowledge, the record industry (in different countries) has (modified) P2P clients to the most common P2P networks and do automatic search for their content (if it's keyword based or something more advanced I don't know). Since P2P networks will provide them with a list of IP addresses of other clients sharing that content they just go ahead and report those to their ISPs and pursue them. In some cases (those with the biggest pipe, probably, which are contributing much more to the content shareing) they ask the ISP to provide them with the end-client name and address so that they can send that to authorities and try to get a search warrant. If they do something more advanced than that then I don't know about it :-) Javier
Current thread:
- Honeypots & reccord industry Bruno Joho (Dec 18)
- Re: Honeypots & reccord industry Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (Dec 19)
- RE: Honeypots & reccord industry David Watson (Dec 19)
- Re: Honeypots & reccord industry Alexander Klimov (Dec 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Honeypots & reccord industry Roger A. Grimes (Dec 19)
- Re: Honeypots & reccord industry Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 19)
- Re: Honeypots & reccord industry Kevin Bryan (Dec 20)
- Re: Honeypots & reccord industry erdem (Dec 19)
- RE: Honeypots & reccord industry Austin, Richard D (Dec 19)
- RE: Honeypots & reccord industry Roger A. Grimes (Dec 19)
- Re: Honeypots & reccord industry Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (Dec 19)