Re: Honeypots & reccord industry

[Alexander Klimov <alserkli () inbox ru>]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Bruno Joho wrote:
> It came to my ears the reccord industry is collecting information
> about people sharing music files or publishing such files for
> download. They may using honeypot technology to get the data needed
> for proceedings judicially. Does anybody knows more about?

Since mere downloading of a file gives the IP of the peer there is no
need to setup a honeypot to get a list of the IPs that have some
particular content. Likely, the main hope of RIAA is not to sue less
than 1/1000 of filesharers but to scare everyone else. So, the *idea*
of `honeypots' and `paid agents' and similar FUD-spreading PR
technologies can be a tool in their work whereas honeypots themselves
are useless.

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Regards,
ASK