Re: Honeypots & reccord industry

[Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfernandez () germinus com>]

Bruno Joho wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> 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?

As far as I know, and this is public knowledge, the record industry (in 
different countries) has (modified) P2P clients to the most common P2P 
networks and do automatic search for their content (if it's keyword 
based or something more advanced I don't know). Since P2P networks will 
provide them with a list of IP addresses of other clients sharing that 
content they just go ahead and report those to their ISPs and pursue 
them. In some cases (those with the biggest pipe, probably, which are 
contributing much more to the content shareing) they ask the ISP to 
provide them with the end-client name and address so that they can send 
that to authorities and try to get a search warrant.

If they do something more advanced than that then I don't know about it :-)

Javier