If it's password protected you mean?

Well, like I say, your ISP can know exactly where you've been - all your traffic has to be routed through them at some point and it's all logged - so theoretically they can visit the same place you have (but they'd need a warrant I guess). Whether they're interested in downloaders is another matter. And whether they'd go to the effort is yet another; but it's technologically possible - unless, perhaps, you're going through an anonymous proxy; but I'm not sure about that.

That's the thing about this BPI/VM thing is that they're just sending letters to those they *suspect* of downloading/uploading music - as I understand it, the only evidence they're gathering is an IP address - well short of any proof. They're just hoping to scare - sorry, educate - people.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on June 15th 2008 at 19:57:24

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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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