Are you a filthy pervert with Sky Broadband?

[paddyhasneeds]

Be afraid..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11418962

[Pesty]

So my internet service provider knows the titles of the films I DL?

no wonder they talk to me funny on the phone.

I iamagine I am on an FBI watch list by now.

[Morningside]

I am all for it - I heard they come round and catalogue it all for free!

[Einion Yrth]

article said:

Armed with IP (internet protocol) addresses - which can identify the internet connection used in any copyright infringement -

or can be spoofed by anyone with the desire and half a braincell.


Clueless, utterly clueless. They have discovered the ability to hassle people who are small time, and no kind of problem to their business empire. Plank stupid.

[FourWheelDrift]

Einion Yrth said:

article said:

Armed with IP (internet protocol) addresses - which can identify the internet connection used in any copyright infringement -

or can be spoofed by anyone with the desire and half a braincell.


Clueless, utterly clueless. They have discovered the ability to hassle people who are small time, and no kind of problem to their business empire. Plank stupid.

And probably not realising as well that only a minority of home internet users have a static IP, most home users will have a dynamic IP so it might change each time they shut their connection down and restart.

[Morningside]

FourWheelDrift said:

Einion Yrth said:

article said:

Armed with IP (internet protocol) addresses - which can identify the internet connection used in any copyright infringement -

or can be spoofed by anyone with the desire and half a braincell.


Clueless, utterly clueless. They have discovered the ability to hassle people who are small time, and no kind of problem to their business empire. Plank stupid.

And probably not realising as well that only a minority of home internet users have a static IP, most home users will have a dynamic IP so it might change each time they shut their connection down and restart.

But dont you still get a 'band' of allocated addresses?

Do ISPs do any snooping at all? I suspect they do. What about certain ports? Some (i think) are almost dedicated to P2P stuff.


Actually I wonder if they throttle down on those?

[aclivity]

Morningside said:

Do ISPs do any snooping at all? I suspect they do. What about certain ports? Some (i think) are almost dedicated to P2P stuff.

Actually I wonder if they throttle down on those?

Some do, I can't speak for all. Google deep packet inspection for more information.

The ideal situation (for the ISP) is that P2P traffic is throttled heavily whilst web and mail isn't touched. User then sees a slow download, runs a speed test which shows that they are getting full speed. S/he then writes off the low speed as being the fault of the seeders / peers, or just heavy traffic.

The policy management servers don't just rely on DPI, they also have policies that identify a user contacting certain addresses (e.g. the torrent sites) on a regular basis.

[eldar]

The files are freely downloadable. Fascinating content

[Marf]

Indeed.

[mft]

eldar said:

The files are freely downloadable. Fascinating content

I've got the email torrent, but do you know of any links to the root directory files? The torrent on TPB has no seeders?

[davepoth]

You'll probably find a link on TorrentFreak, which is a news site, and has lots of comments about this.

I particularly enjoyed his emails to his ex-wife (google it). what a lovely, lovely man Crossley is.

[Blue Meanie]

davepoth said:

You'll probably find a link on TorrentFreak, which is a news site, and has lots of comments about this.

I particularly enjoyed his emails to his ex-wife (google it). what a lovely, lovely man Crossley is.

I got the folder, but have no idea how to view them...

[Pesty]

4 chan strikes again

[RacingPete]

FourWheelDrift said:

Einion Yrth said:

article said:

Armed with IP (internet protocol) addresses - which can identify the internet connection used in any copyright infringement -

or can be spoofed by anyone with the desire and half a braincell.


Clueless, utterly clueless. They have discovered the ability to hassle people who are small time, and no kind of problem to their business empire. Plank stupid.

And probably not realising as well that only a minority of home internet users have a static IP, most home users will have a dynamic IP so it might change each time they shut their connection down and restart.

But all major ISPs keep a log of the physical address that has been allocated the IP address at a particular time, so if the law firm is able to access that data then they know the specific customer that has used that IP (minus the obvious spoofing element).

[ymwoods]

To move the subject onto the other aspect.

Way to go Anonymous! The guy put down a lot of very inteligent internet people and said they were just an annoyance and nothing to be bothered with. You just don't upset people like that, all of a sudden he is now under investigation and the subject of much humiliation. I would hate to be one of the four thousand named on that list though!

I do love a little bit of internet vengence but I fear a little that it will cause the collapse of the internet as we currently know it once Goverments struggle to contain control.

[Marf]

Blue Meanie said:

davepoth said:

You'll probably find a link on TorrentFreak, which is a news site, and has lots of comments about this.

I particularly enjoyed his emails to his ex-wife (google it). what a lovely, lovely man Crossley is.

I got the folder, but have no idea how to view them...

Once you've extracted the files,

1) do a search in the root of the folder structure for *.*
2) copy all the files(not folders) it finds into one folder.
3) open a dos box, navigate to the folder and run the following two commands

rename *.m* *.eml
rename *.h* *.eml

4) open outlook express and drag and drop the .eml files into the inbox
5) read.

Edited by Marf on Tuesday 28th September 08:54

[Alex97]

In car related news, he boasts in one e-mail how he has "£20-30k to put down" and might treat himself to a Ferrari or Lamborghini, then in a later e-mail tells of how he has purchased a Jeep Compass 2.4CVT.

[emicen]

ACS are as disgusting a proposition as ambulance chasers imho. Targeting people who will more than likely not know better to argue their case and may well be innocent, leading to them just paying up to avoid any trouble for themselves.

As for the story, good move brainiac. Insult 4chan, always a smart course to plot

[omgus]

Pesty said:

4 chan strikes again

The place that shall never be mentioned.
Someone on here mentioned they were up to something and i have been keeping an eye on this as it developed. I thought everyone knew that the only way to rouse them from their porn and anime induced slumber was to hurt animals or say that there is nothing those internet geeks can do about it.

[Marf]

The information comission is investigating the breach.

You'd have thought that any law firm that was actively taking on the might of the internet piracy movement would have enough forethought to have the most secure system possible.