This is How We Catch You Downloading

marto writes "All over Europe thousands of people are being threatened with court action for allegedly sharing games like Dream Pinball 3D on P2P networks. Now, documents obtained by TorrentFreak show details of the anti-piracy company's techniques for identifying alleged file-sharers on the internet and the gathering of claimed 'forensic quality' evidence for use in court cases."

Why don't we ...

[Sod75]

put the entire internet behind a NAT router ? :)

Re:Why don't we ...

[maxwell demon]

Because a 15 year old might decide to shutdown the internet with a single email?

No need for email, there's a convenient web interface [turnofftheinternet.com] available.

Juicy bits pulled from server to prevent /.'ing

[carpe_noctem]

-Link to PDF temporarily removed, will return later-

What, no .torrent file?!

Re:Why don't we ...

[digitalhermit]

OK, I just reconfigured my Linksys by switching the LAN and WAN ports. Please use 192.168.0.1 as your gateway and it should work.

Re:How?

[Fred_A]

Simple :
ifconfig eth0 127.0.0.1

Now they'll never find me ! Hahahaha !

Eh, wait...

Techniques

[noz]

details of the anti-piracy company's techniques for identifying alleged file-sharers on the internet

People who visit the linked article?

Re:How?

[Anonymous Coward]

ifconfig eth0 127.0.0.1

Now they'll never find me ! Hahahaha !

That's what you say! I can see your ssh port open, and I'm already in! Count down to "rm -rf /": five, four, three, two...

Re:Automated lawsuits

[Shabbs]

If it costs you a dollar per letter and 0.1% of people accept your "offer", a million letters will net you a million dollars. Maybe this is the new business model for big media.

And no profit!

Re:Industrial fascism

[Anonymous Coward]

governments should begin experimenting with the use of webcams and computer microphones to monitor people for other illegal behaviors.

We already do that...why do you think there's a free microphone in every laptop?

Sincerely,
NSA

Re:Why don't we ...

[Anonymous Coward]

we tried that with small towns.. kills the router pretty quick.

Re:Automated lawsuits

[Deorus]

> I feel sorry for all of the people with a wireless network using a SSID of "Linksys".

Aren't Linksys and Default free wireless broadband ISPs?

Re:"foolproof"?

[avelldiroll]

i like that one too: "If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot."

Re:Industrial fascism

[lawpoop]

"When are these guys going to adopt a really cool logo, like a cross with bent arms or a bundle of sticks wrapped around an axe?"

How about an impersonal, all-seeing eye on top of a pyramid of money and lawyers, watching everything you do on the computer?

Re:How?

[cerberusss]

Now they'll never find me ! Hahahaha !

. . . says "Fred @ N48 53'06 E02 19'15" . . .

Re:Yeah how do you change that?

[numbski]

rm /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (or /etc/master.passwd if you're on FreeBSD). That ought to fix it right up.

Re:Why don't we ...

[awarlaw]

Hey, that's my gateway. Go get your own!