The copyright trolls take help from agencies to search for people who download the copyright content. They receive the IP address details from the service providers and take legal action against them. The victims have shared their experiences and stories on Reddit as they were caught while torrenting.
Some victims have just received a legal notice to consult a lawyer, but further proceedings are upheld. However, some victims are sued for torrenting. In the United Kingdom, the fine for copyright violation depends on the seriousness of the case. However, in extreme cases, the culprit might be sent to the Crown Court, which can enforce an unlimited fine and imprisonment up to 10 years.
While torrenting, the IP address is shared with various other users who help you finish the downloading by sending you the chunks of the file they have already downloaded. You also send them the pieces you have got, and everyone ends up having a complete file. The copyright owners look for illegal downloading.
They might also search to have your IP address and will contact you if needed. Moreover, there are no restrictions on the downloading material, making it easy for the company to jump in and grab some IPs. However, private torrent trackers offer extra protection by involving users in registering themselves first. Every reliable and trusted torrent site has a separate section for user comments on the download page. Read and scan these comments carefully before downloading any material.
If you find anything doubtful or the torrent does not have any comments, it is good to avoid it. Since different companies are joining the torrent sites on downloads to take hold of the IPs, their IP address also becomes available there. Those downloaders who can show that all their music and films copied from the internet are only for personal use will escape the full weight of the criminal law.
But that does not mean personal use downloading is legal. Taking a song or film without paying for it is a breach of copyright. The real issue here is detection and the steps the industries are taking to enforce their members' rights. In a recent development, the British Phonographic Industry has started working with big internet service providers such as Virgin.
Stern letters have been sent which issue threats of disconnection if the file sharing is not discontinued. The BPI has even threatened file-sharers with a court appearance. But as ever with rapid internet developments, it is America which is leading the way in copyright prosecution. Repeat offenders can be imprisoned for up to six years.
Bob May, a British PR, found out the hard way how seriously record companies are taking the issue. While copying an unreleased album for work, he accidently left a file-sharing site open on his computer.
It was only a few minutes before he realised his mistake but in that time a track had already been downloaded. He called every day for a week and insisted on meeting," May explains. We resolved it, but they said if it happened again, they'd use the full force of the law.
But can the iron-fist approach really stop us doing a little bit of illicit downloading? The mind-boggling scope of what is freely available on the internet has brought temptation into the home.
Many of us have got used to not paying for our music and films and there is a discernible cultural resistance to making us pay for something that has been has been free for years. This month a U. The New Scientist reports that "anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or eBooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within three hours of doing so.
They successfully pressured the Department of Justice to halt Megaupload and managed to prod the Ukrainian government into shutting down Demonoid , the popular private tracker. The next step seems to be bring Internet service providers like Comcast and Time Warner into the act. Someone breaking copyright laws by regularly downloading movies is using more bandwidth than the next-door neighbor who's just streaming funny videos on YouTube.
At that point, third-party monitors might take a closer look into what someone is doing online. Serial Box and SerialSeeker should both open to the same app, though, and they're the ones you want to use. Open either of those two up, find your software by scrolling or using the search bar, and click on the Serials tab. You'll find activation codes for every version of the software. Load 'er up. Most software is designed to accept pre-defined serial numbers that abide by some algorithm or another.
That's to let you install it even if you're not connected to the internet, but it also means that you can activate it using a serial number someone else has already used. But then, your app is probably going to try to "call home" to let its slave masters know that you're using the same authentication code as 25, other jackasses. Not great. There are a few ways to stop this. The first is to employ a user-prompting firewall like Little Snitch to approve outgoing connections.
That sounds more complicated than it is. All it does is ask you, with a pop-up, if you want to allow connections to or from your computer when they happen.
You can accept or decline, and set your answer to be a one time thing, until a program quits, or to last forever unless you change it manually. Do you want to let SoftwareCompanyActivation01 connect?
No, no I don't. No thank you forever. Little Snitch and its ilk can be spammy, though, so go ahead and disable the prompts setting and simply scout out what the activation codes you've got to worry about and deny them manually ahead of time. No, you can't make Little Snitch's disable its own phone-home anymore [easily]. The other option is to brute-force disable the software's phone home in its actual files. Guides for this will probably be tough to track down for all but the most commonly pirated software.
On Windows, this will involve finding your host file in System32 and pasting in a bit of text that you can find from a basic Google search. The same thing goes for OS X, but in Terminal.
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