Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet) [LWN.net]

Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 14, 2004 20:35 UTC (Sat) by msmelov (guest, #11243)
In reply to: Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet) by bilateralrope
Parent article: Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet)

yet you use bittorrent...is everything you download legal? Is it legal, but seem questionable? Like TV Shows with commercials cut out. If everyone did that there would be no shows. I honestly don't know the legality of the issue. So I myself would not want to download those shows using bittorrent as my IP is revealed to my peers. Suprnova is very popular and may soon be under the eye of the RIAA, if it isn't already. In which case they can connect to a torrent themselves, and extract IPs by the handful.

Some one at my old university had a simple interface to the campus windows/samba network. There were a few actually. One got sued because he had a gui program atop the interface to the database, he basically had to settle for the ~$12K USD that he had. He then had to take out a loan to pay for his last year. The ones with web interfaces were told to cease and desist. They now switched to a forum where people post what they want to share.

With your IP out in the clear, you take a big risk.

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Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 15, 2004 2:34 UTC (Sun) by bilateralrope (guest, #23986) [Link]

As i have not heard of the riaa going after anyone outside of the US, and that the riaa has only gone after the people who were sharing large ammounts, i believe myself to get not much more than a warning for the first time.

I have heard of people recieving letters from their isp's about them sharing vairous content through bittorrent, but that is all.

I also believe that the sites that list the torrents (like suprnova) will get into trouble before the end users do.