Gizmodo: Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within three hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online—and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers.
From Netflix to Hulu to Apple, it seems everyone is producing original video content or plan to be soon. Couple this with so many services now in the hunt to secure streaming rights to existing content, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that BitTorrent usage and piracy is on the rise again.
BitTorrent has fired its two co-CEOs Robert Delamar and Jeremy Johnson and laid of an unknown number of staffers, Variety has learned from multiple sources. BitTorrent CFO Dipak Joshi has stepped in as interim CEO.
Several Internet providers in India have found a clever way to reduce the load BitTorrent transfers put on their network, while pleasing their torrenting subscribers at the same time. They've teamed up with Torbox.net which offers a fully fledged torrent search engine that connects users to 'local' peers to guarantee maximum download speeds.
Was trying to transfer a game to my Vita today, was met with DRM crap. Since I purchased the game (yep I bought the game) on a different account than the one I use on my Vita, I couldn't transfer the content. I have to buy it AGAIN to do that.
I had it happen with movies ALL the time. I try to transfer digital version of movies I PURCHASED to another computer, to my zune, to an Ipod, to anything and it had all kinds of roadblocks and issue about it checking the "original device" etc....Its annoying.
Then you get to video games on PC, and DRM has almost ruined entire friggin games. These are all issues for people PAYING for the product. You go pirate it, or simply download a pirate version to make life easier, and things are better. You can transfer it to whatever the hell you want with no issues at all. Gee wonder why more people are jumping ship?
It's funny how quick the government is to protect these companies blaming pirates for all their issues, but yet bigger issues with real people get blown over....If I started putting millions of dollars in their pockets, would I get special treatment too?
If one actually reads the article, the researchers stated that they only found monitors on 'top 100' torrents of recent movies and music releases. So this is targeted at people who steal the choicest consumer IP's. And really, what kind of defense is there for stealing a screener of the avengers?
What people fail to realize is that this is just a scare tactic. They literally can't even do this.
The only way that'd be possible is if they hid something within the program (which hackers deconstruct to look for these types of things) to track you.
So other than doing that they'd have to hire people to look after IPs and find their location.
This would take MUCH longer than 3 hours.
Just continue downloading whatever you want.
They can't stop you and they can't track you. They can get you IP which is exactly what any other person in the world can do. Your IP means nothing. Plain and simple.
never used bittorrents
So technically the government are actually breaking their own laws by putting up servers that actually help transmit pirated data to users? Even if it is to just see the logs, surely this would be a massive case breaker for them?