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p2p complaint through esat

r3boot · 2005-05-12 11:44:31

anybody get contacted regarding "a company" "complaining about illegal distribution through bittorrent"? Got a phone call this morning; very worrying. I was told that I was distributing movies through the internet and that although esat couldn't give the company my identity the company could go to the garda and get it that…

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#92 15-05-2005 6:30pm

Mutant_Fruit

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Infini wrote:

Couldn't someone possibly see whats being sent?

Well, they know for sure that SOMEONE is accessing *insert webpage/torrent here*, but they don't know WHO is actually getting the data.

I won't be able to explain it better than they do themselves: http://tor.eff.org/

Take a quick read on how it works. Its easy enough to get a basic understanding of how it works.

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#93 15-05-2005 7:45pm

Infini

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Mutant_Fruit wrote:

Well, they know for sure that SOMEONE is accessing *insert webpage/torrent here*, but they don't know WHO is actually getting the data.

I won't be able to explain it better than they do themselves: http://tor.eff.org/

Take a quick read on how it works. Its easy enough to get a basic understanding of how it works.

Nice. I'll give it a try.

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