full-disclosure - DMCA letters (testing method)

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Date: Thu Nov 24 11:01:34 2005
From: zobel at hnw-online.de (Michel Zobel)
Subject: DMCA letters (testing method)

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Hello,

Lauro, John wrote:
> Not to defend the RIAA, but remember that with peer-2-peer filesharing
> you don't have to connect to the machine you want to download the
> files from.  You are both connected to a database, and the database
> can instruct the person with the file what machine to send it to.
> Otherwise no one behind a NAT would be able to "share" their files...
> 
> So, you have to not only look at connection attempts to the IP
> mentioned, but also connection attempts *FROM* the IP mentioned.
> Peer-2-peer is not limitted to pulling, but can also push.
>  

So can we assume that they "trust" the directory(database)server?

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Michel Zobel
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