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Can p2p use be traced by targeting a known individual rather than an offending IP Address?

My understanding of most filesharing lawsuits initiated by copyright holders is as follows: The monitoring agency will connect to a torrent swarm and collect the ip addresses of people downloading ...
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Privacy in torrents?

It seems that if you download a file via torrent, each downloader can see other downloaders IP addresses. I also noticed that my (windows) pc's name was sometimes displayed briefly. How does one keep ...
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Protecting peers communicating with WebRTC

For reference: WebRTC Homepage I've been really interested in these new RTC technologies that are coming out, specifically the fact that use the PeerConnection API to establish a connection between ...
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Repudiation in Copyright Infringement (BitTorrent)

Seeing this question : How did an alleged illegal downloading be detected? sparked a question I have had for a long time. How does repudiation/non-repudiation work in such cases ? Argument: It is ...
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How does the Copyright Alert System work? Who has implemented it?

Some ISPs are participating in a Copyright Alert System that notifies content authors of violations of their copyright. I'm concerned how this oversight relates to my private traffic, and what laws ...
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Privacy issues in Peer to Peer networks

In any typical P2P file sharing app, say DC++, the typical operations are search content, push content and pull content. A peer node broadcasts/multicasts its query to fellow peers and receives ...
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proxy services for torrents vs encrypting data

I've noticed growing popularity in proxy services for torrent clients; such as BTGuard. Most torrent clients encrypt traffic so aren't these services pointless? I read that it's because the encryption ...
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What privacy methods exist for P2P transfers?

I love my VPN, it gives me to a certain extent privacy from isp & to what I connect. I also use P2P to get & provide data, but I would like to create a level of privacy. What methods exist ...
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Available alternative DNS protocol not another dark-net [closed]

Hi does any one knows any DNS alternative Protocols ? If so what is the most used ? Is easy to setup ? Is easy to have two DNS protocols one where you connect to the Common Internet and the other ...