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Two long-running piracy cases in Sweden have been resolved in the favour of The Man, with ISPs forced to hand over identifying information that could lead to prosecutions for those currently being made an example of by The System.
The cases involve two counts of file sharing, one covering the uploading of audio books to a server by an individual ISP user, the other after the details of the administrator of Bittorrent site SweTorrents. The cases both come under the Swedish introduction of the IPRED legislation, EU rules designed to harmonise rules covering intellectual property cases.
After three years of legal struggle, the Swedish Supreme Court has found in favour of the rights holders in both cases, with the ISPs involved now obliged to name and shame the individuals deemed responsible.
And it could have knock-on implications for others. A lawyer from the Swedish Publishers’ Association believes the court’s decision will be used to obtain the details of anyone believed to be using file-sharing systems to grab copyrighted material, resulting in a flood of warning letters arriving in the post boxes of torrent users. [TorrentFreak]
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Time to switch back to direct downloads?
That time came years ago.
Just out of curiosity, if you had a BT router with their stupid Fon service enabled how could it be proven whether a torrent connection had come from the home or someone connected via Fon?
Or a Tor connection even…
I’m not sure, I’ve always wondered that. It’s capped for speed and is given lower priority, but I’m assuming it goes down the same pipe. Although authentication needs to take place somewhere, so maybe BT tunnels rather than mix it in with your own traffic?
Fon runs on the equivalent of a VPN so BT know whether you’re using that or your normal connection. You also need to input your user name and password so they know which sure is using which connection.
Most of the reason it’s not mixed is for security(stop fon users jemmying with your network) and because fon use doesn’t count towards people with limited data plans (great for streaming TV/radio on your own connection but as a side effect they have a way to identify your account and not just the account of the router owner.
There is an authentication and you are assigned a different IP address.
Thanks. I guessed there would be something along those lines
I’m not very technical but how would they ever pin this on you if you dont have a static ip from your provider? (potential dumb question)
Because your ISP keeps a log of your old IP addresses.
Of course an IP address is not identifying information, it just tells you who the account holder was not who owned the PC and was doing the downloading.
Ahh, I see
Bleugh !
There are far worse things happening in the country and elsewhere than concentrating on online pirates. It just does not make it to the priority list.
(In my opinion !)
I agree, but the rape/murder/other bad things don’t have a rich, mad company
Behind them desperately trying to protect the racket they have built up.
Sad state if affairs when big businesses take priority over the public
I know, tell me about it.
It’s alright for the domestic violence and gang attacks to happen…sure why not….we have to catch the online pirates who keep reducing the big profits of companies…it’s gonna be a shame if there aren’t millions of “sales” to the blockbusters of the year…..oooohhh….shudder..
Surely the time has come for people to stop illegally downloading stuff? In the last few years with the introduction of Netflix, Spotify and Xbox Player and various other media programmes I’ve found no need to download anything illegally
I haven’t downloaded illegally for years, there’s just no need anymore.
That said I still get illegally downloaded TV series off my brother if they’re not available in the UK.
I’m afraid I have to disagree with you. Before I realised how morally abhorant huge media companies can be I looked into a good pay service for my media at a reasonable price….There isn’t one. I looked at every available provider and there is not a single media provider. Not even when you separate music, tv and movies. There is not one provider out there that can give you your media as easily, quickly and as high quality as the illegal route can. The only one that comes close is spotify and even that doesn’t live up to the ease of actually having the files on your computer.
If they want people to stop downloading things illegaly there needs to be a highly reliable “all-you-can-eat” media provider available.
You sir can have a biscuit on me, you made the same argument I was just about to make. ^_^
Would this affect people using a proxy & VPN? :-S
Not sure, but good luck finding pirates who uploads from open wi-fi networks
Is this just affecting uploaders then? Doesn’t affect downloaders over VPN’s and proxies.
Although using bittorrent means you are an uploader and a downloader. Not sure what this ruling means to either…
He’s saying you cant find a pirate who is using a network used by many other people, for example a coffee shop.
No this wouldn’t effect VPN as it secures your data so that know one would know what your up to except you and the server you connect to.
Downloaders get option to cancel uploading but this is affecting everyone regardless. I think masking with proxies and socks won’t help because ISP would know about it. Best bet is open wi-fi zones, happy days, McDonals here I come.
Surely, a pirate can always use offshore servers? Not highly skilled pirate I guess, unlike Sparrow
Yaaaarrrrr? Identify me, would ya? Yarr, ye’ll never find me true name, ye scabbard Peelers! Yarrr!
…that was a political broadcast on behalf of the Yarrr Me Hearty! Party.
Why does the map above show a route that goes over land on the right hand side, especially when there is a sea route just above it.
Hovercrafts
Maybe it doesn’t, maybe the treasures buried in a pond,
Booo! The internet is so boring these days. Time to invent a new way of sharing data. Pigeons carrying solid state drives or sharks with frickin laser beams.
There is a dog ‘dead drop’, so close!
http://deaddrops.com/
http://deaddrops.com/deaddropdog/
Wow, that’s brilliant!
What are they gonna do? I’d just tell them to fuck off.