Crackdown on Illegal File Shares

Rollo Tamasi

In recent months, the number of files being uploaded has increased to proportions where we feel that we have no choice but to bring these individuals to justice for their actions

Dick Doyle, Director General of Irma. Taken from the Metro this morning

Approx 250,000 people use file sharing in Ireland. According to the report 65 people have being caught and are settling their cases with on average a 2,500euro fine.

Orion

I'll ljust blame a virus for doing it. It worked for Curtin ...

Duff Man Jr.

Tell us more about the virus defence. I kneed to know incase a virus ever downloads approx 50gb of copyrighted material to my machine.

Orion

Judge Brian Curtin said that a virus downloaded tons of porn to his hard disk without his knowledge. That's also the excuse I'll use if 'er indoors ever finds mine ... "porn - what porn? Must have been a virus"

themole

I most virus defence cases they can do an investigation of you hd to determine if a virus was indeed the cause.

What you could do however is to entirely wipe you hd, then say you had to do that because there had been a virus, and that could have been responsible for the downloads.
But if you are got with the data on your hd and no virus to be found.....

PogMoThoin

Now where'd a man get a virus these days........handy to have if IRMA came knockin on my door

cooperguy

I heard somewhere that if a machine were to use torrents for downloads it is hard to track what the machine is downloading due to the way torrents work and because of the it is the p2p programs such as limewire that are being targeted. Would this be true or was I just hearing a load of hot air?

Noelie

notice he said 'Uploaded' not downloaded

wba88

wots an extravagant amount to be downloading?

Makaveli

A trojan horse was installed on my pc and they got in and set up Azureus and then started seeding I swear.

Anti

i do about 6gb down and 2.5gb up a day on average

none of that lime wire nonsence tho. Just ftp and priv torrent sites

* all of which have legal content *

<_<

>_>

Anti

Makaveli wrote:

A trojan horse was installed on my pc and they got in and set up Azureus and then started seeding I swear.

Quite common i hear.

I heard a roumour there is a virus due to be launched at 7/4/07 to do that exact thing with the transformers move. weird huh. Always seems to happen when a big film is released.

GoneShootin

Makaveli wrote:

A trojan horse was installed on my pc and they got in and set up Azureus and then started seeding I swear.

Same here - but it installed Limewire!

Must have been that l1m3w1r3_v1r00z that set the MaCoffee Security Index to Bursty Purple!

PogMoThoin

anti wrote:

Quite common i hear.

I heard a roumour there is a virus due to be launched at 7/4/07 to do that exact thing with the transformers move. weird huh. Always seems to happen when a big film is released.

The biggest virus in the world is out soon..............Vista

themole

cooperguy wrote:

I heard somewhere that if a machine were to use torrents for downloads it is hard to track what the machine is downloading due to the way torrents work

The seeder can track the downloaders/uploaders.

snappieT

That's nothing...
Seeding linux isos is such hard work...

KdjaCL

cooperguy wrote:

I heard somewhere that if a machine were to use torrents for downloads it is hard to track what the machine is downloading due to the way torrents work and because of the it is the p2p programs such as limewire that are being targeted. Would this be true or was I just hearing a load of hot air?

You heard wrong, i can see the IP of every person who has a torrent i want and they can see mine.


kdjac

tuxy

anti wrote:

none of that lime wire nonsence tho. Just ftp and priv torrent sites

newsgroups are even better again, full download speed and no uploading at all

Anti

If only tiscalli would allow it. I know i can get ntl's by paying for it. But its easier if i just move to their 10mb service and get it for free.

But still, even though a isp states unlimited b/w it is common to get letters and disconnected if you severly take the piss. i have ehard of a few cases of it up in dublin with ntl.

Capt'n Midnight

the stick
2500 x €65 / 250,000 = 65c each , not a big risk, at the worst it's maybe 200 albums or 100 latest release DVD's

the carrot
none apparantly, only 2.5% of music on the internet is from legal download sites.
if you are missing 97.5% of the market and similar products to yours are given free on sunday newspapers, then ,perhaps, just maybe you are charging too much !

As far as I can see there is an unquestionable demand for music that far exceeds the volume of albums officially traded, and there is no way to put the digital genii back in the bottle. While downloads can be made exclusive to itunes or whichever site, they are generally on P2P within 7 minutes. eBay / Paypall / google have shown that you can make large amounts of money if you are just take small amounts off each punter rather than screw them royally. ( though ebay and paypall are turning the screws)

google makes it's money on ads. and it's making more money than sony which has tonnes of fingers in the entertainment industry as well as the hardware side.

PogMoThoin

:rolleyes: To a "T" m8

OMcGovern

Not sure about a virus defense... but you could say
a) you had an unsecured wireless network, and someone must've been hacked in
and used your network. ( Not as far fetched as you might think )
b) you rented out rooms in your house a few months back, and shared your broadband connection. They have since moved out to somewhere far away.
You had let them use your PC.
c) you rented out rooms in your house, and the previous tenents left their PC in leiu of rent when they were stuck for money. It's all their property not yours.

However, I reckon that they're only targetting the seeders... to cut off the source. In which case, I imagine they'ld get a court order to seize all your PC's and equipment, before you'd a chance to wipe everything.

PogMoThoin

OMcGovern wrote:

Not sure about a virus defense... but you could say
a) you had an unsecured wireless network, and someone must've been hacked in
and used your network. ( Not as far fetched as you might think )
b) you rented out rooms in your house a few months back, and shared your broadband connection. They have since moved out to somewhere far away.
You had let them use your PC.
c) you rented out rooms in your house, and the previous tenents left their PC in leiu of rent when they were stuck for money. It's all their property not yours.

However, I reckon that they're only targetting the seeders... to cut off the source. In which case, I imagine they'ld get a court order to seize all your PC's and equipment, before you'd a chance to wipe everything.

:rolleyes: You are the 1 responsible for the net connection. You are liable.

Anti

God, if they got hold of my hdds ( 6 years worth here ) ill be fined a few billion. And probably sent to jail for a very very long time.

karltimber

anti wrote:

God, if they got hold of my hdds ( 6 years worth here ) ill be fined a few billion. And probably sent to jail for a very very long time.

would they allow you to bring them to mountjoy with you

ouldscratch

I used to have NTL's broadband in a house I lived in and I was downloading day in and day out.when I moved out the tenants after me got a letter stating that they could only access the internet for a certain amount of time a day and their download limit was severly reduced. SO much for unlimited downloads.

PogMoThoin

:rolleyes: Ouch, My eyes :eek:

Thought my sig was 2 big