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"The copyright cops are after file sharers"
Source: /http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=1250
"This story is for all the people secretly copying digital songs, movies and games through online file sharing systems such as Kazaa and Gnutella. You know who you are and soon, the copyright cops could know, too.
The so called peer to peer networks are very good at distributing digital material, but very bad at hiding the sender or the receiver. Taking advantage of this transparency, record companies, film studios and other copyright holders are tracing users of peer-to-peer networks back to their Internet addresses and cataloging the items they've downloaded and the goods they're storing for others to copy.
Once it has an alleged infringer's Internet address, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) maintains that a copyright holder can use a federal subpoena to force
the target's Internet service provider (ISP) to disclose his or her identity.
Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a Los Angeles company that provides anti-piracy
services to the music and movie industries, said the RIAA doesn't have to grab the
Internet addresses of alleged pirates one by one. "You can automate all this stuff,"
including the file searches and the downloads, he said.
That's the approach favored by the MPAA, which has been using virtual Robocops to
troll for copyright violations on peer-to-peer networks. Those software robots also
generate letters to ISPs, university network administrators and corporate computer
systems, demanding that infringing material be taken down.
If copyright owners want to send a message directly to an alleged pirate, they'll need to obtain his or her identity from the ISP. And to do that, the RIAA contends, they can't use software robots -- they'll have to send real humans to the federal courthouse to obtain a subpoena.
Verizon and other ISPs argue that a subpoena isn't enough. Instead, they contend, copyright
owners must file a lawsuit against the anonymous customer before that person's privacy can be breached."
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There are many IP addresses that are scanning, and spoofing the file sharing networks. They want to see what you share, and put tons of fake files up. Files that are named correctly, have a good filesize, and wind up being thirteen minutes of 32k static in MP3. Now, as for the scanning. They can see what you're sharing, right? Even if you use eMule, where people can't see what you share, and have to go to a forum to get links to your files so they can start a download, which helps a lot, they can still see the IPs (yet it is quite harder, since the client search feature won't work if they can't see your files).
These are the "dangerous" IP ranges. They monitor p2p networks in an attempt to harvest IP's/upload files from file-sharers and then report the user to their ISP.
surely it's not all of them....but just a good start.
so people block these IP ranges in your firewalls:
RANGERINC: (Block with: 216.122.*.*) (rangerinc uses a broad range)
MEDIA FORCE: (Block with: 65.217.219.* and 4.43.96.*)
CYVEILLANCE: (Block with: 65.118.41.* and 63.148.99.* and 63.64.0.* and 63.127.255.*)
AOL/WARNER MUSIC GROUP: (Block with: 216.52.242.* and 255.255.0.0)
RANGERINC: (Block with: 204.92.244.*)
MEDIA FORCE: (Block with: 65.192.0.* and 65.223.255.*)
BayTSP: (Block with: 209.204.128.* and 209.204.191.*)
VIDIUS: (Block with: 207.155.128.* and 207.155.255.*)
OVERPEER: (Block with: 65.160.0.* and 65.174.255.* and 65.160.127.*)
NetPD: (Block with: 207.155.128.* and 207.155.255.* and 128.241.0.* and 128.241.255.*)
MediaDefender: (Block with: 64.225.292.* and 66.79.0.* and 66.79.95.* and 66.79.10.*)
MPAA: Block with: 63.199.57.* and 64.166.187.* and 198.70.114.* and 209.67.0.* and 209.67.255.*)
RIAA: (Block with: 208.192.0.* and 208.255.255.* and 208.225.90.* and 12.150.191.*)
BayTSP: 209.122.130.0 209.204.130.0 209.204.130.255
Unknown C&D Cop: 64.106.170.128 64.106.170.135 64.106.170.137
Source: /http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=1250
"This story is for all the people secretly copying digital songs, movies and games through online file sharing systems such as Kazaa and Gnutella. You know who you are and soon, the copyright cops could know, too.
The so called peer to peer networks are very good at distributing digital material, but very bad at hiding the sender or the receiver. Taking advantage of this transparency, record companies, film studios and other copyright holders are tracing users of peer-to-peer networks back to their Internet addresses and cataloging the items they've downloaded and the goods they're storing for others to copy.
Once it has an alleged infringer's Internet address, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) maintains that a copyright holder can use a federal subpoena to force
the target's Internet service provider (ISP) to disclose his or her identity.
Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a Los Angeles company that provides anti-piracy
services to the music and movie industries, said the RIAA doesn't have to grab the
Internet addresses of alleged pirates one by one. "You can automate all this stuff,"
including the file searches and the downloads, he said.
That's the approach favored by the MPAA, which has been using virtual Robocops to
troll for copyright violations on peer-to-peer networks. Those software robots also
generate letters to ISPs, university network administrators and corporate computer
systems, demanding that infringing material be taken down.
If copyright owners want to send a message directly to an alleged pirate, they'll need to obtain his or her identity from the ISP. And to do that, the RIAA contends, they can't use software robots -- they'll have to send real humans to the federal courthouse to obtain a subpoena.
Verizon and other ISPs argue that a subpoena isn't enough. Instead, they contend, copyright
owners must file a lawsuit against the anonymous customer before that person's privacy can be breached."
=================================
There are many IP addresses that are scanning, and spoofing the file sharing networks. They want to see what you share, and put tons of fake files up. Files that are named correctly, have a good filesize, and wind up being thirteen minutes of 32k static in MP3. Now, as for the scanning. They can see what you're sharing, right? Even if you use eMule, where people can't see what you share, and have to go to a forum to get links to your files so they can start a download, which helps a lot, they can still see the IPs (yet it is quite harder, since the client search feature won't work if they can't see your files).
These are the "dangerous" IP ranges. They monitor p2p networks in an attempt to harvest IP's/upload files from file-sharers and then report the user to their ISP.
surely it's not all of them....but just a good start.
so people block these IP ranges in your firewalls:
RANGERINC: (Block with: 216.122.*.*) (rangerinc uses a broad range)
MEDIA FORCE: (Block with: 65.217.219.* and 4.43.96.*)
CYVEILLANCE: (Block with: 65.118.41.* and 63.148.99.* and 63.64.0.* and 63.127.255.*)
AOL/WARNER MUSIC GROUP: (Block with: 216.52.242.* and 255.255.0.0)
RANGERINC: (Block with: 204.92.244.*)
MEDIA FORCE: (Block with: 65.192.0.* and 65.223.255.*)
BayTSP: (Block with: 209.204.128.* and 209.204.191.*)
VIDIUS: (Block with: 207.155.128.* and 207.155.255.*)
OVERPEER: (Block with: 65.160.0.* and 65.174.255.* and 65.160.127.*)
NetPD: (Block with: 207.155.128.* and 207.155.255.* and 128.241.0.* and 128.241.255.*)
MediaDefender: (Block with: 64.225.292.* and 66.79.0.* and 66.79.95.* and 66.79.10.*)
MPAA: Block with: 63.199.57.* and 64.166.187.* and 198.70.114.* and 209.67.0.* and 209.67.255.*)
RIAA: (Block with: 208.192.0.* and 208.255.255.* and 208.225.90.* and 12.150.191.*)
BayTSP: 209.122.130.0 209.204.130.0 209.204.130.255
Unknown C&D Cop: 64.106.170.128 64.106.170.135 64.106.170.137
