Re:One ISP says RIAA must pay for piracy protection
by tlrobinson on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @07:39AM
(#407496)
"...noting that it's especially difficult nowadays because it's extremely easy to spoof IP addresses."
Is it really? It may be easy to spoof the IP of requests in protocols like HTTP (assuming the networks don't filter erroneous packets), but the RIAA doesn't typically go after people who merely download, they go after the people who share.
It seems like it would be much harder to spoof an IP when you're trying to act as a server (as the people who are sharing on BitTorrent and other P2P networks are) since you need to actually receive the requests to know what/when to respond with.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons they only go after the sharers (and of course, to cut of the supply... like going after drug dealers instead of drug users)
Is it really? It may be easy to spoof the IP of requests in protocols like HTTP (assuming the networks don't filter erroneous packets), but the RIAA doesn't typically go after people who merely download, they go after the people who share.
It seems like it would be much harder to spoof an IP when you're trying to act as a server (as the people who are sharing on BitTorrent and other P2P networks are) since you need to actually receive the requests to know what/when to respond with.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons they only go after the sharers (and of course, to cut of the supply... like going after drug dealers instead of drug users)