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Originally posted by kronas
yes i know all that more advanced clients will come along
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Well, whilst more advanced clients will come along, the RIAA will still have access to them. Due to the very nature of P2P software, if you want to share your files, then others must know how to find and access them... including the RIAA! Simply by looking for files that are similar to their copyrighted material and then doing a partial / full download, they can determine whether you are indeed in breach of copyright laws... they're using nothing particularly clever to do this.
I've seen similar trends already with organisations [1] trying to take persons that make their customers software available for download online to court by issuing notices of claimed infringement to the ISP, detailing the source of the P2P host and the infringement details - the onus is then on the ISP to provide the relevant details for the person responsible so that any possible legal actions can be followed up.
Could this be the end of the road for P2P piracy??
[1] eg. The Business Software Alliance
(BSA)