{"id":44348,"date":"2012-09-07T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44348"},"modified":"2012-09-09T23:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:14:26","slug":"downloading-on-torrents-you-are-being-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44348-downloading-on-torrents-you-are-being-watched","title":{"rendered":"Downloading on torrents? You are being watched!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"New Scientist\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/462621-New-Scientist\">New Scientist<\/a> reported that anyone \u201cwho has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a <a title=\"BitTorrent\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359832-BitTorrent\">BitTorrent<\/a> client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New Scientist, academics have \u201cdiscovered \u2018massive monitoring\u2019 of BitTorrent download sites, such as the <a title=\"PirateBay\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/395483-The-Pirate-Bay\">PirateBay<\/a>, has been taking place for at least three years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper \u201cThe Unbearable Lightness of Monitoring: Direct Monitoring in BitTorrent\u201d, Tom Chothia and other researchers from the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, shows evidence that direct monitoring of torrent websites and users are now occurring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe determined that copyright enforcement agencies use indirect monitoring as well as direct monitoring to determine users\u2019 activity,\u201d the paper states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom our experiments, we derived a number of interesting properties of monitoring, as it is currently performed: e.g., that monitoring is prevalent for popular content (i.e., the most popular torrents on The Pirate Bay) but absent for less popular content, and that peers sharing popular content are likely to be monitored within three hours of joining a swarm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that publicly-available blocklists, used by privacy-conscious BitTorrent users to prevent contact with monitors, contain large incidences of false positives and false negatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is currently not clear what law enforcements agencies are planning to do with the slew of IP addresses which have been logged.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Piracy in SA could get your Internet cut off\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44257-piracy-in-sa-could-get-your-internet-cut-off.html\"><strong>Piracy in SA could get your Internet cut off<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43645-porn-downloads-in-sa-are-they-legal.html\">Porn downloads in SA: are they legal?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41208-beware-personal-copies-of-games-can-get-you-sued.html\">Beware: personal copies of games can get you sued<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Online piracy: Crime and punishment in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/17841-online-piracy-crime-and-punishment-in-sa.html\">Online piracy: Crime and punishment in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New report reveals that copyright-enforcement authorities are actively monitoring and logging information about online pirates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,6664,101,3229],"class_list":["post-44348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-new-scientist","tag-piracy","tag-torrents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44349,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44348\/revisions\/44349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}