Re: Take down notices on Bittorrent

It depends on how they view uploaders on freenet. Is the uploader:
a) The original inserter? It is hard to find him.
b) The node that returned you the data?
c) Any node, which in a working network, can return the data?

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:21:10PM +0000, Jonathan Doe wrote:
> It seems the movie studios have adopted a new tactic in the fight against 
> p2p. They are employing a company called BayTSP to scan the common P2P 
> networks for copyrighted material , especially new movie releases, being 
> uploaded ( note they arnt looking for downloaders , only uploaders. Of 
> cource on Bittorrent you are both !) . Now BayTSP claim they have 
> fingerprinted the files the look for ( hashed probably) so renaming or 
> modifiying slighly dosn't throw them off. They then snag your IP address 
> and fire off a nasty email to your ISP demanding your ISP stops you sharing 
> thier material. In my case the ISP caved in an sent me a "stop it" email 
> listing the details of the file they are objecting to.
> SO the big question ... will this approach work on freenet ?
> I would also suggest you get ready for an influx of filesharing addicts to 
> freenet as this is causing a lot of traffic in the forums and i have 
> already seen freenet being put forward as a solution to this attack :-) , 
> it certainly seems to be the ideal solution to me but i am no expert.
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