grafx1 Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 is file sharing software or peer to peer legal ? do you use these software ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanie's Show Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Personally I would never download any of these softwares onto my machine, firstly in order to share files with other people on the net you need to have some sort of spyware installed on your machine, so that other peole from the outside can access your files when you are online, most of these P2P applications come bundled with all sorts of rubbish which is very difficult to remove from your machine. File sharing, like movies, music and applications is copyright theft and therefore illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grafx1 Posted June 25, 2005 Author Share Posted June 25, 2005 Personally I would never download any of these softwares onto my machine, firstly in order to share files with other people on the net you need to have some sort of spyware installed on your machine, so that other peole from the outside can access your files when you are online, most of these P2P applications come bundled with all sorts of rubbish which is very difficult to remove from your machine. File sharing, like movies, music and applications is copyright theft and therefore illegal.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thank you for your fast replyyou are very strong that you can keep yourself from downloading all that librarryof new movies, software,.... in order not to break copyright laws.actually i'm using them but i'm feeling that is something wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astalavista Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 its legal as long as u dont dl copy protected material Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishmen Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Kazaa lite contains no spyware of any type and I have tried loads of bittorrent clients and none have ever contained spyware of any kind. As wherever it is legal or not I use Bitspirit as my bittorrent client and download gigabytes of content monthly but all is legal from sights such as Filerush & 3dgamers for game demos etc. Also a lot of free application are now switching to bittorrent for user downloads because it takes strain of there servers and there for lower costs, example being OpenOffice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanie's Show Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Like I said, copyright material is illegal to P2P, however freeware isnt, and unfortunaly I read in the newspaper that a lady was just fined £13,000 because her daughter was file sharing music (copyrighted), I would sooner pay £8.99 for a CD than pay a £13,000 fine. Sony and a few other record company's currently surf the NET looking for people with drives full of shared software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishmen Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 (edited) First off Seanie's Show everyone is aware that music, game & film companies try to hunt down those sharing copyright material but 100 of millions of people have download p2p software ever since napstar kicked it off in a big way. Do you really think they are going to catch YOU downloading one album etc. You have more chance in winning the lottery. Also they do not look for people with drives full of software there is no way they would win in court if they did that because to do that they will have to hack your system . They try put dummies files on the net and monitor who downloads them they then log the ip address of that person and find out who and where you are. But as I said the likely hood of them actualy catching You is like a zillion to 1 and why people do download illegal files they also still by music and the companies do not want to prosecute there customers so they do a odd prosecution here and there to scare people like YOU off the idea. There are also apps out there that block the ip addresses of the companies trying to monitor you so they will then be unable to get your ip addressPeerguardian is free fast and effective: http://methlabs.org/projects/peerguardian-2-windows/Also Bitcomet is a great bittorrent client for download torrent files(legal obviously): http://www.bitcomet.com/There are many apps that are free and starting to use bittorrent.For game demo's I suggest you check out http://www.filerush.com/ everything on there is 100% legal. Edited June 25, 2005 by englishmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gouki Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Like Astalavista said ... The use of P2P is legal. What u do with it, is something that can be illegal.I have used P2P do download some things I needed ... Dont use it now very often tho. Fakes are all over the networks and its quite boring download a 4GB fake file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishmen Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 You cant be talking about bittorrent I have or not one I know has ever en counted a fake file on bittorrent. It works in a completely different way to kazza etc., kazaa just lists all the files on your pc on bittorrent you have to first upload each and every file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grafx1 Posted June 25, 2005 Author Share Posted June 25, 2005 Thanks for all of you...great information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 Its legal for approximately another year in Canada, until they approve Bill C-60 (sort of like the US's DMCA)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 P2P is legal. It has many legitimate uses everyday. Use common sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Soul Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 thats a tough question i guess it comes down to what your dl'ing,,, id say most of it no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katalyst^ Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 You cant be talking about bittorrent I have or not one I know has ever en counted a fake file on bittorrent. It works in a completely different way to kazza etc.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Spoofed files are rampant on the networks Kazaa uses because Kazaa only hashes the first 256kB of files, in order to speed things up. Kazaa is thus vulnerable to spoofing where the first 256kB of any given spoofed MP3 was identical to the proper MP3, and the following data is, at best, scrambled MP3 frames.BT hashes the full file, and collision attacks on SHA1 require something like 2^69 hash operations. The files can't be spoofed, but they may still be "fake", in the sense that the file is not what the torrent or filename indicates it to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 Heh, ofcourse it's legal...Amazing that this thread exists really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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