On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > Private FTP sites seem to be more common among those who trade > > unlicensed, copyrighted material for profit. This is clearly > > criminal. Certainly this isn't what your average P2P user is doing. > > Has anyone ever done a money trail investigation regarding this? The only > people I ever thought was making money off of copyrighted material was the > people selling "warez CDs" in the small ads in the paper, and that was 5-8
I have't seen all that much warez doing the rounds of random ftp sites - quite often running on backdoored boxes in places with a lot more bandwidth than clue level (corporations, student dorm rooms ...) What I do get to notice is a lot of porn being distributed that way. srs -- srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9 manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations