Excerpt from a BBC news article...

Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest.

A Birmingham University study indicates that an illegal file-sharer downloading popular content would be logged by a monitoring firm within three hours.

The team said it was "surprised" by the scale of the monitoring.

Copyright holders could use the data to crack down on illegal downloads.

The three-year research was carried out by a team of computer scientists who developed software that acted like a BitTorrent file-sharing client and logged all the connections made to it.

BitTorrent is a method of obtaining files by downloading from many users at the same time.

The logs revealed that monitoring did not distinguish between hardcore illegal downloaders and those new to it.

"You don't have to be a mass downloader. Someone who downloads a single movie will be logged as well," said Dr Tom Chothia, who led the research.

"If the content was in the top 100 it was monitored within hours," he said. "Someone will notice and it will be recorded."

Less popular content was also monitored although less frequently, the study indicated.

Full article here.

Oh shit 0.0

Damn! We're in a tight spot!

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You've been watched since July 12th. This isn't as new as you think, although this one's specifically for torrents.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2012/03/15/us-isps-to-start-monitoring-users-by-july-12/

How lovely. That's an invasion of personal privacy. They couldn't crack down on this because they're using illegal means of surveillance. In America at least, a search warrant must be authorized before the searches/seizures of documents can be executed. Without that search warrant all you have is illegal activities that should shut down and imprison all those corporations who are using this bullshit.

sorry t otell you but they have been spying on us for AGES with out our permission Mr.Haze .

>>3 I just picked this from Latest Headlines feed on Firefox.

Mostly because I was sort of tired of seeing the same old threads being bumped up.

How would they know about this supposed minority of unmonitored file-sharers, if they aren't being monitored. The fact of the matter is that only the file-sharers who are bad at what they do are monitored. The pros use programs and server ip redirectors to hide their activities frome all other computers and monitoring software.

Also, unless you have such programs in place to protect your privacy, LimeWire, FrostWire, Utorrent, Bittorrent, and just about any torrenting software you can ever get anywhere is monitored by the multiple government agencies. That's all there is to it. You need to procure software to protect your privacy before you even THINK about going and downloading a torrenting program.

Regardless of what you do you are always going to be monitered. All of your texts and calls can, and probably are, monitered. Most of that has helped bust drug dealers, but the true intention of monitering was to find terrorists. I might sound like a nut, but some friends of mine have been monitered quite extensively for just saying shit over the phone.