How do they get caught...

[Jimbo]

I have seen many people on the news who have been fined thousands for illegal downloading. This has been occured in the uk. One thing that does startle me is how such users are caught. Are they tracked? have people reported them. Also many of the users fined are uploaders of illegal content, does this affect the normal downloading>?

Im just curious, i have many friends who are the same, its just something which has made me think....
Im trying to educate people to stay away from file sharing, as its just all bad.

(i know there was a previous descusion on this, but im not trying to cause a major brawl! LOL )

Well thanks anyway,

Jimbo

[Craig.]

The companies place files onto these programs which contain a smale tracking file, when its downloaded it tracks your usage of the P2P program. If you download and then share a file it logs that and if you do it alot, they get ya.

[Jimbo]

Oh i didn't know that. what about users of bitttorent, you dont actually have to download a initial program for that do you?

Jimbo

[Fozzer]

By Law, the music companies are now able to obtain your E-Mail address, from your Service Provider, and therefore track you down...!

...and your P2P details will appear on your hard drive when the Heavy Gang come knocking on your door... ...!
...(Buggar..!...) ...!

...it's all very scary... ...!

Paul...I wonder what's in my Cookie Folder today... ...?
LOL...!

[xFLAMESx]

...I wonder what's in my Cookie Folder today... ...?
LOL...!

Hopefully some choc-chip.....

WAIT!. . . . .
You keep your biccies in a folder . . . . .
I find air-tight containers do a much better job . . . . . , they don't go stale as quick

Cheers Paul.....

Carl

[Craig.]

Oh i didn't know that. what about users of bitttorent, you dont actually have to download a initial program for that do you?

Jimbo

The file is in the music you download, not the program itself. File sharing progams are not illeagal downloading copywrited song is.

[Jimbo]

okie dokie and what about the songs already on ur hd which have been obtained from a friend?

Do they intentionally search your pc for songs, or just when you are downloadin em?

jimbo

[Craig.]

it logs what you download and what is uploaded from your computer.

[Jimbo]

what does your isp or your hd

[Craig.]

the file that is hidden in some of the music files a person downloads

[Fozzer]

okie dokie and what about the songs already on ur hd which have been obtained from a friend?
jimbo

Shhhhh... ....!

Burn them onto a CD, and delete the files, (and reference to them), on your hard drive... ... ...!

Paul...blimey!....who's knocking on my door now... ...!
LOL...!

[Jimbo]

Shhhhh... ....!

Burn them onto a CD, and delete the files, (and reference to them), on your hard drive... ... ...!

What you mean by the reference bit?

jimbo

[Fozzer]

What you mean by the reference bit?

jimbo

Any reference on your hard drive that you have a

[Jared]

Now remember that bittorent is a successful way of transferring large amounts of adat without using as much bandwidth from the main site..;-) Yes it can be used for illegal stuff, but you can also get open source material from these sites, much the same as coming here for freeware aircraft...etc....

[Jimbo]

LOL i didn't have a program on, i saved all, i mean a friend!, saved them to disk about 5 months ago, then he had to re-install windows, and i, i mean he put the music back on!
MY friend has no software on, just music from a past installation...

So not AS illegal but im just trying to find out about everythin works!

Cheers,

Jimbo