So naive…

Totally agree with you dude.

And your country doesn’t even matter that much…if the US annexed Canada as a state, it wouldn’t even be our most populous state. We have states that are larger than your entire country. So you don’t have much of a voice on the world platform.

You have a lot of frozen ground and some nice reindeer, but thats about it.

Are you stupid? Have you any sense of file sharing and downloading music at all? OF COURSE IT HAS AN IMPACT ON MUSIC SALES, even if it’s meager at a loss of several millions instead of hundreds of millions of dollars. If it had “absolutely no impact on music sales,” I doubt music corporations and enforcement in various countries worldwide would be bothering to stop downloaders so badly.

I’m glad for the people in Canada. They can feel a bit safer now when they download music or videos, but none of that actually applies to us in the United States so I have no idea how any of us could ever feel safe. Even if the corporation is stationed in Canada and their police aren’t doing anything, I’m sure our government will continue to try everything they can. The worst thing that can happen is another “TorrentSpy” where site by site American’s are blocked since we are the only country trying so hard. HEY! MAYBE THEN WE’LL BE SAFE CAUSE WE CAN’T DOWNLOAD ANYTHING! There is something us American’s can rejoice about!

I mean it’s not like you left much to the imagination is it. You actually just cited Demonoid being forced to shut down their Canadian servers completely (just like digitaldistractions was forced to before them) as a reason why it’s perfectly legal to run a BT site in Canada. LMAO.

And look at your response. You again suggest you believe trackers don’t broadcast IP addresses of everyone downloading a torrent to any anti-p2p group who wants to collect them, just as every downloader does.

Literally THE ONLY FUNCTION a tracker has — THE CORE FUNCTION OF BT — is something you not only not cannot understand, but you are actually disputing! LOL

And you’ve again called the person trying to educate you about BT’s most basic function clueless. LMAO. Comedy gold.

What’s next for you chump? Heading over to usenet to call some people clueless who tell you that newsservers are involved in that?

Look at your response. You again suggest you believe trackers don’t broadcast IP addresses of everyone downloading a torrent to any anti-p2p group who wants to collect them, just as every downloader does.
Literally the only function a tracker has — the core function of BT — is something you cannot understand. You even appear to disbelieve this when told. LOL

And you continue to call someone else clueless in a post where you repeat this. LMAO. Comedy gold.

No doubt with the sheer level of ignorance you’ve displayed here, your idiotic assumptions about security and willingness to provide poorly thought out guesses to others as security recommendations, you’ll be a big supporter of PeerGuardian.

Don’t be so upset boy, it’s not that you said anything of value above so I’m not starting to quote the junk you spit out!

Yeah. And what it says is they’re going to do what they have always done. Something other than target P2P downloaders, which is what anti-piracy groups and they alone do.

If there’s only one group who targets p2p users and I’m the only person who can remember that ain’t the fkn mounties, how is it I’m the clueless one here?
And the rest of your post sets new benchmarks for what “clueless” can be measured against.

“”"An individual can be sued if he/sh has used a poor service and got caught or if someone supplied the necessary information to incriminate that individual.”"”

They can also get sued under all other circumstances where they simply used p2p. Including where nothing you described occurs. Including downloading crap for personal use when living in Canada.

It isn’t hard to figure out… if you start a torrent where you can connect to other peers you can be caught. That’s it. That’s the entire security formula.

There are no poor services or informants necessary. YOU ARE THE INFORMANT when you broadcast your IP to the tracker as someone downloading that file, or to other peers via DHT.

“”"2. BT related, AUTHORITIES GETTING INFORMATION STORED ON TRACKER SERVERS!. That means that THE POLICE have to raid the hosting locations and confiscate the servers from their owners.”"”

What utter nonsense. First of all the police are irrelevant as I’ve explained several times. Copyright infringement is a civil matter. You get sued. The police aren’t involved and as such aren’t in need of any user records. What on earth would they want with them if this isn’t their job?

Secondly, anti-piracy groups have been operating for many years and have issued many legal threats directly to P2P users. I have personally received 4. These do not require raids or access to servers, just like you don’t need this access in order to download from BT. All it requires is a BT client and an internet connection. Which is what they’ve been using for the duration.

How bizarre that you would try to profess knowledge and advice to BT users here on this topic while knowing literally nothing about it. Not even having a vague clue as to the who, what, where or why involved.

“”"No, no organization dealing with copyright infringement can do such thing and no, they’re not after the files, they’re after the logs of the WebServers conntaining dates and times and the urls accessed for each IP…”"”

No they’re not. If they raid a BT site or tracker it is to secure evidence against the operators in a legal suit. This is a routine function for police and is a function of the court process where evidence in civil suits needs to be obtained.

Nobody would ever raid a server to get user IPs from a tracker. The only function of a tracker — its dictionary freaking definition — is a service that broadcasts these IPs over the internet to anyone who queries it. It’s like saying you have to raid Google headquarters to get your search results. Er… no. You’ve failed to understand the only function the service in question has.

You should be able to figure this out if you have ever used BT. Did you need to raid a server in order to get the IPs of others downloading something? No? Then figure out it is as easy for anti-p2p organisations as it is for you. Open the torrent… wait for the tracker response… done.

“”"Demonoid for instance is the biggest private tracker and the second biggest tracker in the world. You think this isn’t good news for us since all that P.O.’s can do now is making empty threats against something that is PERFECTLY LEGAL? Get a life!”"”

Which Demonoid would this be? The one that just shut down entirely in Canada because they couldn’t challenge the legal suit they faced there?
And this has convinced you not that a BT site in Canada is certainly not immune, but apparently that it is perfectly legal. LMAO.
So I guess if the owner of Demonoid loses his house to the CRIA that’ll be more good news for BT sites in Canada. LOL
Teh stupidity… it burns.

The first sentence can be interpreted, but next one, “Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.” is what it says it is!

An individual can be sued if he/sh has used a poor service and got caught or if someone supplied the necessary information to incriminate that individual.

Put it simple:
1. USING UNSAFE P2P PROTOCOLS CAN GET YOU INTO TROUBLE! Those unsafe P2P protocols are mostly old networks that lack in development and pre-planning of it’s structure, neglecting Peer security. Such protocols are FastTrack used in KaZaA, Direct Connect used in DC++/ODC and others. Use that and you’re getting sued if unlucky!
2. BT related, AUTHORITIES GETTING INFORMATION STORED ON TRACKER SERVERS!. That means that THE POLICE have to raid the hosting locations and confiscate the servers from their owners. No, no organization dealing with copyright infringement can do such thing and no, they’re not after the files, they’re after the logs of the WebServers conntaining dates and times and the urls accessed for each IP, the tracker logs in case it’s about a private tracker that stores ratio information and a download history for each user. Not to mention the fact that if a tracker goes offline the pirates, that’s we, are loose big time. Take a look at the Hungarian raids, the country’s overall traffic went down with 33-40%!!! And those raids were made only in Budapest!

Demonoid for instance is the biggest private tracker and the second biggest tracker in the world. You think this isn’t good news for us since all that P.O.’s can do now is making empty threats against something that is PERFECTLY LEGAL? Get a life!

What could Australia possibly do?
Australian police don’t target people downloading P2P crap for private use and never have.
WTF else are you looking for here ?
If you need to see that written somewhere in order to realise it then grab yourself a pen and paper kid.

Er… the same people spying on Americans are spying on Canadians pal. There has been no change in this regard since before Clinton took office, let alone Bush.