Thread: Internet download copyright threat

Interesting Rob, did you happen to catch the trial of the 3 guys who run Piratebay from, I think, Sweden? All young guys in what looked like their mid twenties and for the prosecuting barristers it was like trying to outsmart, Einstein, Newton and Stephen Hawkings on a matter of physics. I couldn't believe how:
1. Smart these young guys were; and
2. cocky and arrrogant towards authority;and
their leader in particular had an answer for everything thrown at him. It was amazing and they're still trading.
Anyway, I've done some reading and apparently it's still quite possible for your personal IP address to be hacked and you're actually innocent. I've seen the lights on my modem flickering away like its downloading whilst all the computers, etc in my house were turned off, so what's happening there?

lol

ignore the email.

small list of excuses you can use

- i have an unprotected wi-fi
- i have tor running
- it might of been your cousin when they borrowed your internet\
- what movie? i cant see it on my hdd


i would be printing off the email and framing it.

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

Interesting, I'd downloaded a fair few things in my time and have never had any such notice.
I wouldn't be too concerned

over the years, ive managed to collect and keep about 8tB of material.

An IP address can't be hacked it's just that, an address.

What does happen is people will compromise your modem or something behind it(a pc etc) and use that to do things via your connection this is unlikely to be anything that is traffic heavy as current connection speeds in Aus make this impractical(nbn is changing this) typically compromised pc's are used for other things such as sending spam and identity theft of the owner.

Where people dispute that they downloaded data more often than not they had a poorly configured wireless device or a friend came round and plugged a pc in and the old favorite one of the kids/kids friends did it while they weren't supervised.

Another point that gets brought up from time to time is alot of these internet connections use dynamic addresses but the person/account who was assigned an address at a particular time is usally available to an ISP

I also think the number of warrants that come through from police for peices of information would amaze people and if you think something like peer guardian will help you are going to be in for a rude shock

Originally Posted by Eevo

over the years, ive managed to collect and keep about 8tB of material.

A nice VPN on an encrypted server helps

So, how does one go about that?

Search the torrent forums it will give you a stack of info.

They usually cost a small fee to be a member.