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Re:BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored by belorn on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:47AM (#4474765)
This become even more important when anyone can add false information to a tracker.
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Re:BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored by deno on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @11:45AM (#4475053)
> "All the monitors observed during the study would connect to file-sharers and verify that they were running the BitTorrent software, but they would not actually collect any of the files being shared," he said.
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Re:BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored by qu4z-2 on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @12:14AM (#4477951)
Running BitTorrent software is illegal now?
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Re:BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored by deno on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @05:06AM (#4478572)
That’s why he added:

> "It is questionable whether the monitors observed would actually have evidence of file-sharing that would stand up in court."

However, it’s not really that much more work to verify if that peer is sharing the file in question. Just request/offer few random blocks. There’s no mechanism in place to assign peers in BT network varying degree of trust.

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