Studios sue iiNet over video piracy, page 1

reply to post by Darthorious

Your about half right in your information.

This is how they catch you. Whenever you connect to p2p, you are connecting to the IP's of other people that have p2p. This being said. The Movie and music industry hirer tech companies to attempt to upload, or download from other parties. While downloading, they put a packet sniffer on there connection. This packet sniffer monitors all the traffic over there connection, not yours. This being said. Your IP is sending traffic over there connection to there computer to relay the data(ie song/movie) The IP is encapsulated with every piece of the data that you are sending. Once they finish the download/upload from you. They verify that it is infact a copyrighted material, and then go on to hand that IP over to the person that hired them.

*Side note, If you share your folder that they the song is in, that means they can now view EVERYTHING that is in that folder. You just gave them permission to look at every song you ever downloaded, that you kept in that folder.*

The people that hired them, then look up the IP address. The IP address itself is part of a block of IP's that are owned by a specific ISP. They then send a certified letter requesting that the ISP track down and hold data related to that IP.

The IP does a search of the network. In DSL and cable modems. you public IP goes back to your Nic Mac address. The Nic mac address goes back to your modem, your modem is tied to your acct. your acct has all your contact info.

Once the modem is located they then copy all DHCP logs showing that you were given the IP during that time frame, then the copy the ARP entries tieing the modem to the nic, and the nic to the IP.

If the ISP does there job correctly and in a timely manner, you are NAILED. there is no way to fight it. You as the act holder for the ISP are legally responsible for everything that happens on the connection.

In the case above, they didn't have all the songs she had ever downloaded they had 1 or 2 songs. That though is enough to justify a search warrant. If the did that they could scan your computer hard drive and do a bit by bit recovery of everything that has been on your hard drive that wasn't copied over. Once this is done, instead of 1-2 songs, you are now on the hook for 100 - 200 songs, all of which you can be fined up to 250,000 each. Walla they own you now.

Now before I go on, you may ask what incentive does the ISP's have to catch these people, obviously this costs money and man power. The answer, is Yes and yes. It does cost both of the above. With that said though, 90% of the bandwidth is consumed by 10% of the population. With the isp that I worked for, they spent ruffly 30% of the actual cost of the service on bandwidth. here is an example breakdown.

internet at $45 a month, they spend ruffly $13.5 to provide the bandwidth. No imagine this if that 10% that consumed 90% of the bandwidth were kicked off, they could do 2 things, 1 lower the cost per user, and 2 increase the number of users per bandwidth. Instead of having 100 users @ 45 a month, they could now have 10,000 users @ 40 or even 35. The profit margin is incrediable.

The ISP's have every reason to get the heavy users off there connection, thats why they do it. It saves them money by not having to increase bandwidth to get more users on the connection. It a partnership, the ISP's make the studios look like asses, the studios make people fear them to stop downloading illegally, these people inturn, go to tv to get there jollies, which inturn the studios get kick backs for everything played. They make money, the tv provider(which if you have cable is the same as the ISP) makes more money, they reduce the amount of bandwidth hogs, and increase profit margins. Mo money, mo money, mo money. Thats what it comes down too.

You want my advice, instead of P2P use newsgroups. They aren't tracked, they are private, and you have to have an act to login to download. no one has ever gotten sued from newsgroups, only p2p.

Cheers,

Camain