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This is How We Catch You Downloading

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the line-and-worm dept.

marto writes "All over Europe thousands of people are being threatened with court action for allegedly sharing games like Dream Pinball 3D on P2P networks. Now, documents obtained by TorrentFreak show details of the anti-piracy company's techniques for identifying alleged file-sharers on the internet and the gathering of claimed 'forensic quality' evidence for use in court cases."

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  1. Good thing you can't block them by TheSpoom · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh wait...

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  2. Re:How? by didde · · Score: 4, Informative


    You can easily use a (open) proxy or similar to mask your HTTP traffic. But if you'd like to take it one step further, Relakks (based out of Sweden - also accepts foreign users) uses VPN to route all packets from your machine out onto the Internets. You can check their legal FAQ to read about their restrictive policy regarding your personal information. It'd take a subpoena from the Swedish gov't to for them to hand out your originating IP address. This is rarely done - and as I understand it copyright violations are not considered "serious" enough.

    Works like a charm and the performance drop is insignificant. You could easily saturate even a 100 Mbps link using this service.