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Old 28-10-2009, 14:43   #4
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Re: Internet "cut off" date set for illegal downloaders

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Originally Posted by AdamD View Post
I'm still wondering how they're going to address the issue of people who don't use P2P to download, but use Newsgroups and the like
Especially the ones which offer 256bit SSL.
Easy with newsgroups, but will require either a change in law (which would probably come) or the assistance of courts.

The Authorities look for large amounts of data sent to/from known newsgroup server data centres. The hardware that Phorm were looking to install could probably have done this easily enough.

They organise a raid, obtaining all necessary warrants. They then look at the News provider's logs to see exactly who has been downloading what, and could probably find other nice details like their address and the credit/debit card details used to pay for access.

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Originally Posted by webcrawler2050 View Post
I'm interested how they are going to "know" without monitoring every packet..
With paid news providers, they don't. They just need to monitor where the news provider's data centres are sending a lot of data.
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