New research has shown that the customers of just three of Britain's leading ISPs are responsible for more than 60% of illegal downloads. Internet intelligence firm, Envisional, has been tracking music torrent downloads for the past couple of months, analysing the IP address of those downloading and uploading content and matching it to their ISP.
The company traced more than 28,000 unique IP addresses in June alone and found that 22.6% of them were Carphone Warehouse customers, with 21.6% from Virgin Media and 21.2% from BT.
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Almost all recently updated clients have encryption.
Its not for hiding IP its to stop ISP knowing whats transferred.
Exactly, so in reference to the first post, even if people turned on encryption, this research firm would still gather the same data as encryption is not hiding anything from them.
Exactly, so in reference to the first post, even if people turned on encryption, this research firm would still gather the same data as encryption is not hiding anything from them.
i never stated it was to hide ip's what i did say was that if those savvy people turned off the encryption then the data WOULD be different as it would be classed as illegal files , since its encrypted they wouldn't have know if it was legal or not so yes it is hiding something from them its hiding the data that's being transferred which is the whole point of encryption
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Exactly, so in reference to the first post, even if people turned on encryption, this research firm would still gather the same data as encryption is not hiding anything from them.
i never stated it was to hide ip's what i did say was that if those savvy people turned off the encryption then the data WOULD be different as it would be classed as illegal files , since its encrypted they wouldn't have know if it was legal or not so yes it is hiding something from them its hiding the data that's being transferred which is the whole point of encryption
unless they, gasp, look at the trackers and see what IPs were being given to them.
I mean no **** that the leading ISPs have majority 'illegal' downloads...
what a waste of resources and life
makes me a sad panda
Jump to conclusions much?
Jump to conclusions much?
since when is asking a question jumping to conclusions? and even if a private company is conducting the research, that does not mean it wasn't paid for by the government.
so does it realy matte
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