Forensic Investigator Outlines BitTorrent Detection Technology

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In one of the many BitTorrent download cases brought by pornographic film makers, the plaintiff — faced with a motion to quash brought by a "John Doe" defendant — has filed its opposition papers. Interestingly, these included a declaration by its 'forensic investigator' (PDF), employed by a German company, IPP, Limited, in which he makes claims about what his technology detects, and about how BitTorrent works, and attaches, as an exhibit, a 'functional description' of his IPTracker software (PDF)."

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[girlintraining]

You aren't understanding how the Internet works. If you had taps on all nodes at the same time and the data was encrypted end to end, then you would still be able to "see" who sent what when. You are assuming that "the network" is a cloud. It isn't. "cloud" doesn't exist.

Are you retarded? Every router, switch, etc., has port mirroring capability. Most of those pass through telecommunications equipment. That telecommunications equipment has taps built into it. That's what most of the internet is built on. They can tap it. They do tap it. They're building a nationwide infrastructure to capture all the IP header data at each point where it enters a telecommunications network. YES, THEY CAN DO THIS. THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE THIS. THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME. Am I getting through your neanderthal skullmeats?