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Originally Posted by webcrawler2050
The problem is, Torrents are used for alot of Linux Distros and RPM's aswell. So how do they get around that?
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Scrape the tracker and you get a nice list of IPs that are downloading whatever copyright work you want, you have to register with the tracker to download, so there's always a nicely updated list of who is infringing your copyright.
This is why p2p is bad, with p2p you cannot avoid people being able to see what you're downloading, because it's a vital part of how it works, if no one can tell you're downloading the latest hollywood blockbuster then they can't download from you. Newsgroups, ftps, and other direct downloads don't have that, if your connection to them is encrypted then no one knows what you're downloading, only that you are downloading something, unless they can get hold of the sites logs, and the sites either don't log, or if they do you need to go through a court to get access to them, and as long as the site is complying with the relevant legislation (for example DMCA for the American based ones) they'll never be able to get one baring some drastic law changes.