Comments on: RIAA vs. IP:127.0.0.1

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:25:24 +0000

Is that true? Even with the latest wireless security technologies, no wifi network is impenetrable. Do they actually prosecute people for that?

By: LordAzuzu

LordAzuzu — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:53:34 +0000

When ppl say to “reset your router”, they mean to bring it back to factory defaults, so the wifi connections is NOT encrypted, and you can say that “anyone passing by” could have used your connection.
In Italy you could be anyway sued for another law infrigment: you HAVE to keep your wireless network protected, because of terroristic activity in the previous years.

By: phex

phex — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:05:48 +0000

from what i’ve read re: stunnel, doesn’t the “thing i’m connecting to” akways have to “be in the same place”? As you may well tell, i’m not well up in the actual mechanisms which underpin the internet etc…

if not that, surely you cant use it to encrypt all torrent traffic due to it’s nature?

By: Techrat

Techrat — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:28:35 +0000

People saying “reset your router!” are idiots. Point blank. ISPs keep logs of who has what IP assigned to which router (MAC address and/or serial number) from the times the router is actually up and assigned an IP address. Past logs are what these letters are based on. Getting a letter and resetting your router later is the same thing as closing the door after you’ve left it open long enough for the killer to sneak in.

By: Jackscompletelackofsurprise

Jackscompletelackofsurprise — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:51:39 +0000

Most ISPs keep radius logs of provisioning that takes place with the public IPs that are assigned… if they subpoena the radius logs, the RIAA can determine at least down to the person who is being billed for the connection at the time of sharing.

In response to something someone mentioned, there’s no way they are using Mac addresses to prove their case. The ISP isn’t storing that kind of info.

As stated in the article, a knowledgeable forensic expert witness could absolutely OWN the RIAA….a defendent just needs to man up and spend the money.

The defense I would use, ” I must have had an incorrectly configured wifi router.” Zero out the HD 50 times and prove it was ever on my drive. Problem solved!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:01:01 +0000

Even if you had received a new IP address most ISP’s keep track of when a IP lease has been given and when it expired and to who. Most of the time its historical so the RIAA asks who uses this IP at this time on this day and its over.

By: yo

yo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:36:55 +0000

Anyone use Stunnel?

By: robmatic

robmatic — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:43:24 +0000

Resetting your router may give you a new IP address, but how does that protect you? It is certain that your ISP has data that tells them that “from Jan 26 at 11:36AM through Jan 29 at 3:14PM the IP address 1.2.3.4 was leased to “. And I bet they have this sort of data going back well into the past. So getting a new IP address doesn’t erase everything that happened in the past.

By: ESkO

ESkO — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:26:01 +0000

what about using the software hide ip platinum?? nayone?

By: Dutch court forces isp to hand over name at Torrentfreak

Dutch court forces isp to hand over name at Torrentfreak — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:06:16 +0000

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