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In the past, I understand entertainment co's have identified transgressors from looking at the IPs that are making movies available for download, for instance,
by dreadsword 15y ago
In the past, I understand entertainment co's have identified transgressors from looking at the IPs that are making movies available for download, for instance, and then subpoena-ing account holder info for that IP from the ISP. Or similarly, finding the IP that a torrent is being served from, or whatever.
What I read from Ars is that now entertainment co's will have some means of "...monitoring BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks" that bypasses the steps required today.
What's that mechanism? And whatever it is, is there anyway that a giving entertainment co's a means of monitoring ISPs customers isn't corrosive to privacy?
- wmf 15y agoThey're doing the same kind of monitoring they used to do. It might be better, because now I think they're required to document how their monitoring works and (supposedly) independent experts can comment on the accuracy of these systems.