Piracy Protection Software (Not encouraging piracy)

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Disclaimer: I'm not encouraging internet piracy in anyway nor am I encouraging that you, me, or someone you know does anything or should do anything illegal. This is just out of curiosity.

If someone (not me) was an internet pirate (ie: downloads movies,music,ect). Should he (or she) have any software (ie filters, firewall, ect)to protect their identity so the chances of them getting a Piracy lawsuit is cut down?

Or is it more of a case of if they want to get to you, they will. Regardless of any software you have.

Thanks
 
People will say peerguardian. Unfortunately it is false security as groups like the RIAA's mediasentry would probably use non-blacklisted IPs when they nail you.



The best advice is don't do anything illegal!
 
I'm surprised this thread wasn't locked already. I was going to say, would you wear a mask if you robbed a bank?

Here's a better thought: have your "friend" come over to your house and use your internet when he downloads. Then, he won't have to worry about getting sued.
 
Stop pirating! LOL. Do whatever you want, but don't get caught. Do you actually believe Peerguardian will help? Don't you assume RIAA and MPAA hire consulting firms to do the dirty jobs? Do you actually believe RIAA is smart enough to catch over 25,000 users? From what I know consulting firms that get hired to help RIAA and MPAA is a private disclosure. They can be coming from anywhere. So few wanna be developers looked up their domain names and routing segments and posted their corporate IP address. That supposed to help? If you got to pirate, hijack someone's router, but this is very illegal in the States.
 
wildfire99 said:
I'm surprised this thread wasn't locked already. I was going to say, would you wear a mask if you robbed a bank?

Here's a better thought: have your "friend" come over to your house and use your internet when he downloads. Then, he won't have to worry about getting sued.
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Why would it be locked?

From my understand it's illegal to encourage anything illegal, admit you do anything illegal, and ask how to do something illegal. I'm not doing any of that.


Now back on topic, I assumed there wasn't anything that could be done but I just wanted to check if [H] had a different view on it.
 
It should get locked because...

The Hard|Forum Rules said:
(18) You will not discuss, suggest, engage, or encourage any ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES. Links provided to locations that deal with any such activity are also expressly forbidden.
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No discussion about such things, period. Seems pretty simple to me.
 
devman said:
I'm not sure what you mean here. It is pretty easy to not do something. In fact I'm not doing a great many things right now.
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I was actually joking by implying that these days it's hard to do anything without breaking 1 rule but I guess that one went completely over your head :p
 
Give me a break. Over a 100,000,000,000 p2p users sharing files, and the RIAA sends their hounds after 70 year old grandmothers and 12 year old little kids. The chances of you ever being caught so beyond slim to none, you have a better chance hitting the lotto than being identified by the RIAA, MPAA or any of the other dying groups. They are all losing, and losing horribly, and they know it. So they file bogus lawsuits, catch a few noobs who have a shared folder full of music and they hope to scare everyone else into line. Sorry but they are the real crooks and they are getting what they deserve and will be extinct in 10 years.

Long Live Piracy.
 
ADDICT76 said:
Give me a break. Over a 100,000,000,000 p2p users sharing files, and the RIAA sends their hounds after 70 year old grandmothers and 12 year old little kids. The chances of you ever being caught so beyond slim to none, you have a better chance hitting the lotto than being identified by the RIAA, MPAA or any of the other dying groups. They are all losing, and losing horribly, and they know it. So they file bogus lawsuits, catch a few noobs who have a shared folder full of music and they hope to scare everyone else into line. Sorry but they are the real crooks and they are getting what they deserve and will be extinct in 10 years.

Long Live Piracy.
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Your intention of your statement is on a target, but you are a bit off. The current population is 6,602,224,175. Active torrent users are less than 1,500,000, but some researchers say estimated 27,000,000 users have used p2p in the past. 25,000/1,5000,000 =1.6% of chance of getting caught based on today's trend. Also, you have to calculate how many media you share per day and the hours. However, here is how logic of average works. Average has to be also calculated with the probability ratio. It is hard to define the probability ratio, because we don't know how RIAA and MPAA's business are done. There isn't a good representative of numbers. I guess the whole point of the thread is source and destination of the ip is pretty much irrelevant in the today's world. Many specialists know how to tunnel their ip address to locations that you wouldn't expect. So it all comes to chances. The chances are full on estimated figures, because not enough data to really know. Don't forget the variable of legality of each States to different countries. If you really want to dick RIAA over ( I don't know why), use non-American ip address. Your chance will get lower.
 
100 billion users, eh? Might want to go back to school as it seems the public education system - or heaven forbid a private one that someone actually paid out of pocket for - has utterly failed you.

Long Live Properly Educated People.
 
i would think the best way to do it and not get caught would be through a proxy server... Or that one program used that goes through 3 or 4 servers before ending up at you ... Im not here to judge if someone is good or bad for downloading... Do what you want... If i was going to do it-- proxy is what i would look into...
 
I don't think most of us had a great opportunity to design PPOA and PPOE networks. I wish I have. I really don't know how to design networks for DSL. Let's think about their DHCP assignments. Even the ip addresses change and you are on a various DSL variations, you probably are on various Class B network assignments. For DSL, you have to be 15000 ft from CO, which isn't that far. Think about how many people around you have DSL. Even 17 bit network, we get 131,072 subnets and 32,766 host per subnet. Maybe, your CO carries one subnet. Let's say each CO holds 32,766 hosts as MAX. Even you have a typical taste, there are many options in the world. What is the chance from 32,766 users that someone has exact music tastes as you? I guess it is possible for someone to follow you around if you are not careful with what you share. Oh, also that person has to use the exact same port numbers too. So what are the chance? Something to think about. From what I know Cable is a shared subnet, so it is even easier.
 
requiemnoise said:
I don't think most of us had a great opportunity to design PPOA and PPOE networks. I wish I have. I really don't know how to design networks for DSL. Let's think about their DHCP assignments. Even the ip addresses change and you are on a various DSL variations, you probably are on various Class B network assignments. For DSL, you have to be 15000 ft from CO, which isn't that far. Think about how many people around you have DSL. Even 17 bit network, we get 131,072 subnets and 32,766 host per subnet. Maybe, your CO carries one subnet. Let's say each CO holds 32,766 hosts as MAX. Even you have a typical taste, there are many options in the world. What is the chance from 32,766 users that someone has exact music tastes as you? I guess it is possible for someone to follow you around if you are not careful with what you share. Oh, also that person has to use the exact same port numbers too. So what are the chance? Something to think about. From what I know Cable is a shared subnet, so it is even easier.
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Well, all it takes is a grep for a time, date and IP. It will say who was logged in at that time. DHCP is easy to manage, regardless of how many networks or hosts on subnets...
 
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