Who Owns Torrent Websites and Why is it hard to catch Torrent owners?
Common people own torrent sites, and it is not them distributing the material. It's the users. Most of the users do not have any sort of permission to distribute or even use the material, so it's all illegal. Nobody cracks down on them, though, since torrents are not just from one source; bits and pieces of the file comes from every hard-drive of anyone who downloaded the torrent. When you open the torrent, the program has to receive the file from perhaps thousands of different places. This makes it harder to trace and to find the origins of the original torrent. That's why no one does anything about the illegal downloads.
Bittorrents (also known as "torrents") work by downloading small bits of files from many different web sources at the same time.
How torrent networking started?
Torrent networking debuted in 2001. A Python-language programmer, Bram Cohen, created the technology with the intent to share it with everyone. And indeed, its popularity has taken off since 2005. The torrent community has now grown to millions of users worldwide in 2009. Because torrents strive to screen out dummy and corrupt files, are mostly free of adware/spyware, and achieve amazing download speeds, torrent popularity is still growing fast. By straight gigabytes of bandwidth used, bittorrent networking is the most popular activity on the Internet today.
How companies catch torrent owners/sharers/downloaders?
Often they(companies)place fake files, called honeypots, that people want to download. Pricey packages like adobe cs3 or the latest top 40 mp3. When you attempt to download the files, they are given your IP Address when you first connect. They can use that address to check what files you are making available and your location.
There are specialized groups at most major companies whose job is to monitor pirated software outlets. Companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and especially the RIAA (music industry) and MPAA (movie industry) all have people that actively monitor popular torrents to see who is seeding. They usually download enough from you (appearing to be just another user) to prove you are distributing their content then they will determine your ISP and send them a "scary legal letter" hoping to get your subscriber information (which has worked on some ISPs in the past). Then they can sue you.
No comments:
Post a Comment