Well the BPI are only concerned with music

AFAIK so they wouldn't have anything to say about software and movies. And they also don't seem to have anything to say about downloading really: "customers whose accounts appear to have been used to distribute music in breach of copyright will receive informative letters" - seems to me that they are going after the uploaders.

It surprises me that most "illegal" downloading is via p2p. Can that really be true? It all seems very 2004 to me.

And I don't understand this: if I download a file from the internet how can anyone tell if it is legal or not?

Posted By: Mr Creosote on June 15th 2008 at 16:52:20

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It's ok to download... (General Chat) - conker, Jun 15, 14:28:17
- Well the BPI are only concerned with music (General Chat) - Mr Creosote, Jun 15, 16:52:20
  - By inspecting the content... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 15, 17:15:51
    - How can they inspect the content (General Chat) - Mr Creosote, Jun 15, 17:46:34
      - Because they can see what you downloaded and download it themselves if they have to (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 15, 18:02:26
        
        And then... (General Chat) - Mr Creosote, Jun 15, 18:29:38
        
        If it's password protected you mean? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 15, 19:57:24
        
        Well yes I sort of understand (General Chat) - Mr Creosote, Jun 15, 20:21:38
        
        Oh yes, if they go after anyone it'd be the uploaders (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 15, 20:44:24
        
        I don't think you can generalise about what bloggers do (General Chat) - Mr Creosote, Jun 15, 21:01:49
    - they cant see anything if traffic is encrypted. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Jun 15, 17:42:15
      - They can if they join the swarm and download... (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 15, 18:00:44
        
        And, in any case, for this exercise it's enough for them to know your IP address (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 15, 18:03:16
  - its P2P, but using bittorrent these days. as I say, it is unworkable. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Jun 15, 17:00:45
- its completely unworkable, people will just use clients with encryption in the end. (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Jun 15, 16:29:54
  - BitTorrent encryption doesn't help I'm afraid... (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jun 15, 17:11:28

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