Uploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you. BayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and compliance systems, has began offering a service aimed at software, movie and music pirates. FirstSource identifies the first users to upload copyright- or trademark-protected content to major peer-to-peer networks. The service gives owners of intellectual property a way to identify the first individuals who upload illegal content.
Just to be clear... How does it monitor the first upload of a bittorrent file to a network, when bittorrent doesn't use a network? All it uses is a tracker to verify who is using the same torrent control file. The file itself does not contain anything other then names and some reference to the primary source. I could decide to make the name of my own application 'Tina Turner - Golden Eye.exe' and due to the complications involved with various bitrates using from MP3, nevermind the numerous other music format, file types, bitrates, compression methods, etc., there is no way they can tell the difference between that being a song or an application. It only gets worse if I call it something like License To Kill (also a name from The Best of Bond CD). How do they know just from the file name that the torrent points at music, not a zip file of a game I made or anything else. BayTSP's system might work for 'other' centralized systems, but for bittorrent or even eDonkey, it is absolute bullshit.
Yea i doubt these people even know what bittorrent is...i saw the edonkey website and it seems to be something along the lines of limewire, just a little more advanced. These idiots dont know that bittorrent uses a completely different system. edonkey: 1 user uploads and people download the whole file, then they can upload....vs bittorrent: the first person uploading and the next 1 to infinite number of people uploading can be seconds to milliseconds from each other. Whoever wrote this article should be castrated and fired.
Well they are doing something effective because my ISP suspended my account along these lines and identifed edonkey as the source. They knew the file name, type of file and had all logs of the ports being used. It's real.....
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File Sharers Can No Longer Hide
Posted by: Jack M. Germain February 5, 2005 01:30 AMUploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you. BayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and compliance systems, has began offering a service aimed at software, movie and music pirates. FirstSource identifies the first users to upload copyright- or trademark-protected content to major peer-to-peer networks. The service gives owners of intellectual property a way to identify the first individuals who upload illegal content.