As what I have said, the torrent filenames means nothing. It does not reflect how much of the content that has been downloaded. Furthermore, for video files, if you don't download 100% of the files, the content is pretty useless because it may just choked your media player.
The analogy could be like: I walked into library to borrow a book. Instead of reading, I went to photo-copy it. Library will have record to show that I have borrowed the book. But they can't prove that (1) I have read the book (2) I have photo-copied the book (3) I have photo-copied 100% of the book. I still thinks that it's a "scare tactic" - if you have actually downloaded the video and the ISP records showed that you have been downloading, you will be so shocked that you would just own up and pay them the money. IMHO, if they are so sure that the evidence is fool-proof, they could have gotten a search warrant like all the past BitTorrent raids in other countries to confisicate your PC. After reading more about the protocol, I agreed with Harish that OS does not matter. Even if you are running Linux, unless you are tunneling the traffic through some other channles such as Tor, you are still "trackable" in BitTorrent. However, in this case, they are not targetting the .torrent sites, but the end users - that makes them like RIAA which pissed off many people (I think RIAA once issue letters to some teenagers or children as well). I read from several places that anime fans are going to boy-cott them and buy from other shops instead. Regards, T J On 8/15/07, Junhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chng Tiak-Jung wrote: > > I know this is totally out-of-topic, but my wife told me just now this > > news that Odex, a local Anime distributor actually went around suing the > > illegal downloaders (including a 9 years old child). > > > > You can see more details about the Odex and their legal actions from > > here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odex > > > > What I am curious is: Odex claimed that they can track down the > > downloaders who are using BitTorrent for download. > > > > I wonder how much truth is it in their so-called evidence, or is it just > > a "scare tactics" to get the downloader to admit themselves ? > > > > How can they really proven that the person has actually downloaded the > > full content ? does owning 50% of the fragments of the file illegal ? > > 60% ? ... 90% ? > > > >>From my limited understanding of IP (internet protocol) and BitTorrent, > > I believe there must be many ways that you can use Linux to make the > > "evidence" irrelevant. > > > > Well, that is provided that these people are using Linux, of course :) > > > > Regards, > > T J > > -- > > Chng Tiak-Jung > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I suspect (based on a scanned copy of a letter from Obex posted on a > blog sometime ago) that Obex is simply lurking on the p2p torrent, > logging every ip originating from Singapore, then requesting the ISPs to > cooperate. That letter even had file names of the torrents downloaded > and time. No way to hide from this, I think. > -- > Regards, > > Junhao > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.jmarki.net/ > > "Oops, what happened?", said Confused Jmarki > -- Chng Tiak-Jung email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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