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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)."
My understanding is that one is only required to give the source if one is distributing the product to other people. As long as the individual keeps the software for themselves, there's no requirement to make the source available.
Read up on how Freenet works and you will see its not just about data encryption. Due to how it routes, and that data chunks are scattered about It also hides the source and requestors to the point that even if you are on the same LAN and sniffing packets directly you wont know for sure. Sure you can be caught using it which could be a legal problem for you depending on where you live, but they wont know if you are doing the requesting of file parts or you are just passing requests along.
I2P i believe has something similar in place but i'm still learning how their stuff works.
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that is why there is garlic routing. garlic routing is a modification of onion routing used by tor, what it does is bundle packets together so as to make traffic analysis useless. it does have greater latency but should not be a problem unless you are streaming
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