LoadsaMoney said:Id get all that porn wiped tbh, you don't want to be woken up at about 4 in the morning by the rozzers smashing your door in.![]()
Energize said:So how do companies find out if you've been downloading stuff like music and films if you dont upload anything, in fact if there isnt a record of all the data sent to a pc with p2p how can they prove anything other than that you downloaded a torrent file? I take it that the isp keep a record of who had what ip at what time/date?
jdickerson said:Talking from experience?
Phil99 said:If you're using BitTorrent they can just record all the IPs that are currently active on that torrent. Anyone can see who's connected to the torrent, it doesn't take much to record all the IPs and then contact the ISPs. You don't have to upload anything to be visible on the torrent.
USENET is completely different though, a lot of News servers don't keep logs and if the ISP doesn't log the data either there's virtually no chance of getting caught, as far as I'm aware.
This is the rules I am aware of. From this basic information the Police can ask for a more detailed log to be kept on specific people. (I assume a warrant is required from this, but the way we are creeping towards a Police State then I doubt much permission is required...)FordPrefect said:Unfortunately due to the RIPA act ISPs now have to store information on every URL you visit and the destination email address of every email you send, but not the email contents.