First sentencing for illegal file sharing in Czech Republic

Nothing to do with the subject really, but I must say for an article on Piracy there is no better image to use than that of everybodys favorite pirate. Captain Jack Sparrow

that acually kinda scarred me alittle. What if they start doing that in the US? *sigh* I guess its time for a format.

P2P file sharing is not illegal.

p2p not illegal? i thought it was i herd a guy in the us was sentenced for that....but dont quote me......correct me if im wrong.

Filesharing (P2P, and its clients/protocols) are not illegal. The files that one may download over P2P are.

Drivecrypt is your friend!

I gotta say i like the pic. But he is a good pirate ;) in regards to the article well another one joins the long list of others.

The title is wrong; he was busted for massive uploading. I doubt you could download 50,000 dollars worth of material. I doubt they could have even tracked him downloading 50,000 dollars worth of material.

Downloading is not illegal (at least my educated interpretation of the action of downloading is not illegal under US law); only uploading is, for fucks sake everyone needs to make this clear in their articles.

Let’s dispel some common p2p security myths that i keep seeing people bring up on these forums:

Encryption is not safety, it basically does nothing. If you can go online and get the encrypter, what makes you think that they can’t get it and decrypt it? Unless your encryption is home made and your a super genius or something your encryption does nothing. It will make it so your ISP can’t see what’s going in or out that’s all, it will help with ISP throttling not security.

IP changers; also useless. Your IP changes often enough, even on a cable modem. they don’t have your addy anyway, no matter what IP they record they still have to correlate it with a real addy via harassing your ISP into giving it over, some ISPs fold in a second, some fight it tooth and nail.

ip block lists; this idea is so dumb it makes me laugh because so many people think they work. You actually think they don’t have their own IP changers?

Private trackers; unfortunately 99% of people mistake a private torrent link post with private trackers. Most are private link posts that just link to public trackers. a true private tracker means that you are a member of the site that’s actually hosting the trackers, very rare. that’s means nothing gets seeded without first being downloaded from another non-private tracker then a new tracker is made for the private site then its posted, and private trackers are no safer than public ones because all they ask when you sign up is "what’s your email" and "what do you want your password to be?".

spoofing and server hopping works, just got to rout the traffic through countries that are p2p friendly like France or Germany.

Personal firewalls, they don’t need access to your computer they just need to see where it is.

This is how p2p security works; you are sending out requests and receiving info. It doesn’t matter how much encryption you have or what your IP is. You need to send out a return addy to get the file, no way around it. Only way to shake them from backtracking the trail is to lead the trail through an area where they can’t go but you can, like foreign servers. The other way is wifi surfing, but that’s stealing.

Of course all this is pointless if you’re just leaching. If your just leaching just use encrypted clients so your ISP doesn’t throttle you that’s it. Nothing else to worry about.

You guys are right the title was meant to say *sharing* and ive since updated. thanks

Originally posted by georgeluv:

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Encryption is not safety, it basically does nothing.

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Originally posted by Chaos343:

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that acually kinda scarred me alittle. What if they start doing that in the US? *sigh* I guess its time for a format.

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The program TrueCrypt even has a feature that will allow you to essentially encrypt your harddrive within a encrypted drive. So basically if this is setup and you tortured for your password you give it to them and all they get is a hard-drive of nothing(or whatever you so choose to put on their). When in reality all your files are safely stored away in another encrypted partition :)

windsong,

you really think a forensic computer investigator wont be able to decrypt your drive thats was encrypted with a prog that’s that common on the net?

better option is just to never let them get to your comp in the first place, and i was talking about lawsuits, civil not criminal. they cant take your comp in a lawsuit. all they can do is log your ip.

everyone trust me, i know someone that worked for the computer crimes division of the new jersey state police, they can decrypt your drive. its too easy, all the info is right there on the disk! about a trillion bits more than what they would have to collect to decrypt even the longest of encryption keys. like i said unless you are some sort of super genious and make your own encryption they will decrypt your drive faster than you can say "fuck i should have just dropped my hard drive in acid".

"We have uprooted the myth that the Internet is an anonymous environment. This simply is not true. Everybody who gets on the Internet actually becomes...a specific, non-anonymous participant," Jaromir Soukup from the Czech branch of the IFPI said.

Ya i dont even remember what my real IP is anymore.lmao
and for decrypting your harddrive, How do you think these guys break the encryption on dvd's .Pretty much the same way they would the harddrive.
It's been prooven time and time again ....If you build a better mouse trap someone will just build a smarter mouse... so to speak. Nothing is uncrackable as long as someones got the time.

And theres plenty of guys/girls out there with nothin better to do.want an example.... How many of you will have a date or go out with your girlfriends or wives this weekend...umm show of hands .....ah anyone ......hmmmmmmmmm .Yup lota potetial crackers out there. :)

ok read this
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/481552
so can someone explain why my page was shut down for piricy if p2p is not illegal..... and if p2p is not illegal but downloading files are...or filesharing may you call it is then why not just make p2p illegal thats all its there for anyways filesharing...



in my opinion if someone else is making money off somebodys original work thats piricy



but if its just being shared then F**k whats the deal

Originally posted by dragondog:

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ok read this
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/481552
so can someone explain why my page was shut down for piricy if p2p is not illegal..... and if p2p is not illegal but downloading files are...or filesharing may you call it is then why not just make p2p illegal thats all its there for anyways filesharing...



in my opinion if someone else is making money off somebodys original work thats piricy



but if its just being shared then F**k whats the deal

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oh

dragondog, don't post something that is completely off topic from the ongoing thread as that is a forum rule no no. post deleted