Re: LIVEWIRE - File-sharing network thrives beneath the radar

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: November 5, 2004 4:27:31 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Re: LIVEWIRE - File-sharing network thrives 
beneath the radar
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com



[Note:  This comment comes from reader Steve Schear.  DLH]

> From: Steve Schear <s.schear () comcast net>
> Date: November 5, 2004 12:54:12 AM PST
> To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] LIVEWIRE - File-sharing network thrives 
> beneath the radar
>
>
> >  But Cohen has warned that BitTorrent is ill-suited to illegal 
> > activities, a view echoed by John Malcolm of MPAA.
> >
> >  "People who use these systems and think they're anonymous are 
> > mistaken," Malcolm said. Asked if he thought sites like Suprnova were 
> > illegal, he said: "That's still an issue we're studying, that 
> > reasonable minds can disagree on," he said.
>
> It seems that if the MPAA follows a similar path in tracking BT users 
> they will have special clients written that probe BT and capture the 
> IP addresses of other clients holding copyright material.  Some BT 
> clients allow the use of proxies for both tracker and peer 
> communications.  If BT users avail themselves of proxies (especially 
> offshore services that have non-logging policies) it would seem to 
> greatly complicate the MPAA's and RIAA's task.  Unlike government 
> security agencies, like the NSA, which routinely monitor and capture 
> Internet traffic for analysis, the MPAA and RIAA must use court orders 
> served on ISPs identifying suspected copyright violators.  If they 
> cannot determine where the client is then they cannot draft the court 
> orders and those users may be effectively shielded.
>
> BTW, Bram and I worked together at Mojo Nation, a now defunct P2P 
> service, which pioneered many of the distributed technologies used by 
> BT and other advanced P2P services.
>
> Steve


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