only to receive a knock on the door by police due to illegal indecent images being downloaded by the P2P software without their knowledge. movies, mp3s, legal adult pornography etc.

Many of our client’s have downloaded programs like Limewire, Shareaza, eMule, Kazaa or others in order to download what they believed to be legal material e.g. You might want to head over to the Techdirt web site for some interesting ideas on that front.A significant proportion of the cases that we deal with involve clients who have downloaded some form of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software. If you feel that the the infringement is of very high value, then you could talk to a specialist lawyer but you are unlikely to really recover anything useful above the costs.Īlternatively, you could embrace what some progressive musicians are doing and reach out to fans instead of criminalising them. If people are sharing your music, you have a number of options but worrying about the actual people doing the sharing is unlikely to help in any way other than sucking up a lot of money for solicitors. I know you didn't ask about this part so feel free to ignore if not relevant:

The MPAA and related organisations have made quite a few attempts at this. So once shared, there is no realistic way to prevent it continuing without a significant amount of money available to do things like poisoning the files so people end up downloading rubbish. The two Wikipedia articles I've linked to contain a good starting point for understanding how the networks operate. Older versions of Bearshare support gnutella, later versions have a proprietary sharing service.īoth of these networks are fully distributed and do allow for searching without a central database. Limewire does indeed support Torrent peer-to-peer networking as well as gnutella.

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