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Forensic Investigator Outlines BitTorrent Detection Technology

Posted by timothy on from the vee-simply-attach-ziss-collar-to-each-bit dept.

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)."

4 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. I2P/Freenet by nurb432 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Try tracking us there.

    Good luck.

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  2. Re:private trackers solved this long ago by nurb432 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only takes one person to sell out an entire private tracker.

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  3. Re:Well by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the private copyright cops have no reason to lie or cheat

    Sure they do. Since this is really just an elaborate extortion racket, the more IPs they deliver to their clients, the more they get paid. Their clients just file a bunch of John Doe lawsuits and hope for settlements. The more IPs they have, the more possible settlements -- false positives be damned.

  4. Re:IPTracker Based on Shareaza 2.4.0.0 by Mashiki · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dunno about that. If something is GPL'd and being used in the courts to prosecute me, hell, even if it's closed source I want to see the source so I can tell whether or not it's tampered with.

    We already do this with other forms of evidence gathering tools, it should be the same with data gathering tools.

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