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Originally Posted by Berealwith
ok this might be a numpty way of looking at things. Say i make quite a few say a few gigs of dummy files, some look like a full cd and lots of single dummy files all names different but have song artists names and do not download anything say from limewire. I then allow people to upload from me. Then a few more do it and a few more would that be wrong ? and could i get a letter ? if so what for? and somewhere along the line i am sure it would fill thier inbox up with spam...
And doesn't channel 4 use p2p for it tv ? would you get a letter for that ?
Who knows i don't use p2p but its the start and in a few years time we could all be under the ISP's boot.
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I suspect the following will happen which should help clear things up for you.
The BPI's investigators log onto Limewire for example. They download the latest album by Coldplay, they check it's legit and log the IP's of everyone else who's uploading the same file. Files on P2P use a hash to ensure you're participating in sharing the same file. Filenames are fairly irrelevant and if you used Emule you'd see the same file with multiple different names. It's the hash which is composed from the file's binary code that's important and no two files can have the same hash unless they're identical.
They then take all the IP's coming from Virgin's IP ranges and send them to Virgin, Virgin then match up the IP to the customer who had that IP at the time the upload was made.
Assuming Virgin do log which IP's are tied to which customers (I'm pretty sure they have to for legal reasons) then the whole thing is water-tight.