TJ - > I know this is totally out-of-topic, but my wife told me just now this news > that Odex, a local Anime distributor actually went around suing the illegal > downloaders (including a 9 years old child).
Apparently someone was mentioning to me that it was carried in the local papers - something that I do not read unless needed. > You can see more details about the Odex and their legal actions from here : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odex > > What I am curious is: Odex claimed that they can track down the downloaders > who are using BitTorrent for download. > > I wonder how much truth is it in their so-called evidence, or is it just a > "scare tactics" to get the downloader to admit themselves ? > > How can they really proven that the person has actually downloaded the full > content ? does owning 50% of the fragments of the file illegal ? 60% ? ... > 90% ? > > From my limited understanding of IP (internet protocol) and BitTorrent, I > believe there must be many ways that you can use Linux to make the > "evidence" irrelevant. BT does seeding and the distribution of hashes. There isn't a master index list per se, but the closest there can be is the original .torrent file to seed the torrent distribution. Perhaps the Odex people are going after the .torrent sites as they are the ones with the most obvious data. Do read up the bt protocol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent and at http://www.bittorrent.org/protocol.html. In either case, the OS is irrelevant though. An alternative means it the tor protocol that totally disperses the data into the ether for reassembly. hth. Harish _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
