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How did they bust Shawn Hogan?
Wired magazine has a great article on Shawn Hogan who is fighting the MPAA in a lawsuit that alleges that he downloaded the movie "Meet the Fockers" using BitTorrent. I think R & S may have discussed this, but I couldn't find the link. Here's the Wired mag link.
My question to you is: how could they have busted him using BitTorrent? I know he probably didn't do it and that's the point, but how could anyone get busted using BitTorrent? If you can, then the Pirate Bay is not secure.
On his blog, Hogan talks about the BitTorrent site having a lot of pirated movies.
Maybe it's a honeypot? That would definitely be a way to get busted. You log in to an MPAA front site, you give them your personal information, you download a movie which they record evidence of and then they sue you. That could be it. I'd be interested to know of other ways and how secure you rate places like TPB?
Honestly, it's far easier to use Netflix and services like lala.com than to bother with downloading.
My question to you is: how could they have busted him using BitTorrent? I know he probably didn't do it and that's the point, but how could anyone get busted using BitTorrent? If you can, then the Pirate Bay is not secure.
On his blog, Hogan talks about the BitTorrent site having a lot of pirated movies.
Maybe it's a honeypot? That would definitely be a way to get busted. You log in to an MPAA front site, you give them your personal information, you download a movie which they record evidence of and then they sue you. That could be it. I'd be interested to know of other ways and how secure you rate places like TPB?
Honestly, it's far easier to use Netflix and services like lala.com than to bother with downloading.
Comments
Maybe I'm the only one who sees this connection, but I think they are very similar subjects. Too bad the kind of legislature that could protect bandwidth / electronic information has no chance of being written in the next 40 years. At that time we'll get that "fresh" wave of senators and reprentatives that actually know what the internet is and then educated legislature can be written. I'm sure plenty of private solutions would be available by then anyways though.
I know there's some sort of act Bill Cinton put into effect, in regards to privacy of information alreayd on your computer. But I'm not familiar with it. I think it had something to with the files on your computer being personaly property, and it would be trespassing to look through your computer without a warrant, and thus if the government found something they can't use it, unless they had a warrant.
But from what I know, RIT has been searching student computers for specific files to accuse them of thievery (this summer a number of people were "attacked" (for lack of better word) in search of Battlefield 2 piracy, by RIT simply searching computer files. I think it's part of RIT policy that they can search your computer if you're using their network, but I think it's possible that policy is unlawful in the first place, hmmmm.)