[72564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional differences in P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Jul 16 23:06:16 2004
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 04:05:27 +0100 (BST)
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407162252100.14480-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 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
I have't seen all that much warez doing the rounds of random ftp sites -
quite often running on backdoored boxes in places with a lot more
bandwidth than clue level (corporations, student dorm rooms ...)
What I do get to notice is a lot of porn being distributed that way.
srs
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