P2P- legal or illegal in the UK???

neochivers said:
if i use proxi can they trace me?
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most people cant. go run a security test or something similiar and it should come up with a bogus I.P. address. mine does im on a proxy too. but thats a standard internet security test...nothing like what authorities or gov. peeps use i would imagine.
 
lp41 said:
fair enuf, it's the law but i just think that 5 yrs in prison is a bit harsh and too long. 5 YRS!
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yah it is harsh

but so is theft of copyright material. they're jsut trying to make an example of people with an overly harsh punishment, it discourages the criminals lol.
 
lol, imagain a police knocking on your door and take you to prison. Then some prison inmates ask you what you did to get yourself in jail for five years, and you say
"I downloaded Toxic by Britney Spears." wouldn't that be something?

My cousin's friend was caught downloading a movie off bittorrent. He didn't go to jail or pay a fine. he just had to delete the movie and promise he'd never do it again to the police.
 
imagin sittin there download sum ilegal then the SAS jump through the winow and then throw in a smoke grnade thing...... id just laugh at the
 
i havn't heard of much cases of police getting civilians for downloading stuff. I heard they raid colleges alot more.
 
Proxy really won't help unless you set up a chain of anonymous proxy servers in several different countries. You can set them to use encypted volumes and they'll essentially be uncrackable - however their traffic won't be. You can also script your MAC to change on every request - and set it to span many different brands... But if you go through all that trouble, you might as well buy the music.
 
im pretty much protected form getting caught, it would be my dad who gets punished. I'm behind a router so all connections to servers, web pages, ftp sites etc are logged as the IP of my router, not me or my sister, the router. So no one will ever know exactly WHO it was who downloaded it so there is no way the poloce can press charges through lack of evidence, and the routers IP changes every 12 hours.

Thant and of course NAT is enabled on the router so is WEP so any kind of routing robot wont be able to find us.
 
liuliuboy said:
lol, imagain a police knocking on your door and take you to prison. Then some prison inmates ask you what you did to get yourself in jail for five years, and you say
"I downloaded Toxic by Britney Spears." wouldn't that be something?

My cousin's friend was caught downloading a movie off bittorrent. He didn't go to jail or pay a fine. he just had to delete the movie and promise he'd never do it again to the police.
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where r u from? cos they're (the police) v.nice. wot i've heard from the UK is that u get fined and thats it....

But the SAS crashin into your house.....hm.....quite kool and funny (if they dont' shoot any1 ;) )
 
dragon2309, you aren't protected from anything... IP's are irrelevent, a more common approach is to track your MAC address - the digital fingerprint uniquie to your network interface. You are not anonymous on the internet. Period.
 
dragon2309, you aren't protected from anything... IP's are irrelevent, a more common approach is to track your MAC address - the digital fingerprint uniquie to your network interface. You are not anonymous on the internet. Period.
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I didnt know servers and websites logged your MAC address. Damn, thats my theory out the window then isnt it.
 
hmmm...free...or $700 software to try....hmm...some people have 5 gigs of music...lord knows that calculates to about $1,500-2,00 easily..
 
now i heard in a movie ther is a loop conection sever or sum stupid which means ppl cant hack you cos of the way the ip is set up.... the SAS are actually highly trained have only ever been seen in action once and that was at the embassy seige in london in 80s .. apparently they try not to shoot and actuall try to capture ppl
 
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