Studios mine P2P logs to sue swappers (News.com)

[Posted August 25, 2005 by cook]

News.com reports that Hollywood studios launched lawsuits against file swappers based on records found in peer-to-peer log files. "The Motion Picture Association of America said it filed 286 lawsuits against people around the United States based on information acquired from file-trading sites shut down earlier in the year. Most of those sites were hubs connecting people using the BitTorrent technology, a peer-to-peer application designed for speeding downloads of large files."

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Posted Sep 1, 2005 11:23 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

Moral of this story: If you're going to direct people to
unauthorized copies of files, at least set your webserver
to log to /dev/null.