[72550] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional differences in P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Jul 16 16:59:52 2004
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:59:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87658ng0fo.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Private FTP sites seem to be more common among those who trade
> unlicensed, copyrighted material for profit. This is clearly
> criminal. Certainly this isn't what your average P2P user is doing.
Has anyone ever done a money trail investigation regarding this? The only
people I ever thought was making money off of copyrighted material was the
people selling "warez CDs" in the small ads in the paper, and that was 5-8
ago. Back then it was quite common for people to pay to get a CDR with
stuff, I haven't heard about that in a long time now.
I would believe that most of the money now being made is from counterfit
software where people put up basically a whole organisation with printing
presses for manuals, real CD/DVD pressing equipment and perhaps even the
holographic mark, and shrinkwrap it all and sell it as the real thing.
That has very little to do with p2p, though. I am not aware of any money
changing hands in p2p.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
