Re: Free movies on the Internet -- download scams
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 18:21 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 28/02/12 15:34, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 05:24 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 11:16 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> >>> Lot's of, um, people searching for free lunches means lots of people
> >>> falling into traps.
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> An advice to the OP and everybody who download videos for free by
> >> torrent.
> >>
> >> In my hometown Oberhausen Rheinland Germany the judges don't care about,
> >> if somebody else did "download" [1] videos and music for free via your
> >> protected account. If somebody was able to hack your protection it's
> >> your fault.
> >>
> >> There are no legal free downloads available for licensed videos and
> >> music. The German GEMA for example sues kindergartens for singing
> >> children songs in public. If you sing a song in public or if you upload
> >> a video by torrent, while downloading it, take care that the music and
> >> video are for free, e.g. that they're under a license like the creative
> >> commons.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ralf
> >>
> >> [1] Happens to a clueless person I know. I suspect regarding to the
> >> "download" this person is mistaken. I guess the person had to pay much
> >> money, because somebody else did upload, when doing a download.
> >
> > PS: I wonder how (in)secure it is to fake an IP with the torrent client.
>
> :-D
>
> How are you going to get packets back when you're spoofing your address?
Good point. Another way to go would doing the download / upload by a tor
network.
> > I wonder what lawyers do, to ask for the IP of somebody uploading at a
> > specific time from a specific address. Is the way they do spy legal?
>
> Depends on where you are - here, Australia, it's down to the ISP (until
> the latest round of secret talks are finished.
> https://plus.google.com/111963192282128912359/posts/EXHxf53EmEF
>
> A number of major Australian ISPs *will* hand over your IP address
> without hesitation and *are* recording all those details already. (cough
> those that sell pay per view videos cough)
> Additionally, many use "bittorrent" as an excuse to throttle your
> connection.
The IP in Germany only is given by a judicial decision. How do the
lawyers argument to get a judicial decision?
> >
> >
>
> NOTE: the default movie/net television channels in Miro are all Creative
> Commons licensed (Rumblefish can go f*iretr*uck themselves).
>
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