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Originally Posted by cook1984

Interesting article:

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-b...-peers-081020/

So now TPB are framing random IP addresses. Expect a flood of bogus claims any time soon.

No, remember that part of the evidence gathering process is to take some or all of the file from an IP address. Flooding a torrent request with fake IP's doesn't work because you wouldn't be able to get evidence from it.

Of course, this doesn’t work when the pirate-tracking company requires itself to connect to the peer, before the IP-address is collected, since it is impossible to connect to a non-existing peer

The methods used by the BPI mean that they can produce file evidence because they have collected it, which means they have connected to the peer.