Oh yes, if they go after anyone it'd be the uploaders

But I don't think they're interested in the bloggers as they're usually putting up stuff that's difficult to find in any format. They're more interested in sharing of the likes of Madonna, Britney, Coldplay, etc and the torrent are seen as the place where that happens. It's why they shut down Oink (note that there hasn't been any prosecutions on that as yet and I doubt there will be - that wasn't the point). But most of the torrent sites are based off shore and largely untouchable (at least for the time being), so the BPI/VM thing is all about tring to scare people rather than prosecute. The government wanted to introduce legislation to force ISPs to monitor traffic and disconnect people found downloading; but the ISPs realised that - while technically possible - would be impractical to monitor everyones usage. Perhaps this is the BPIs way of showing that something can be done?

Posted By: BerlinCanary on June 15th 2008 at 20:44:24

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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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