On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:22:03 -0400 Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:42, Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> wrote:
So are they basing this on you downloading it or on making it available for others?
Without knowing the details, I wouldn't assume any such level of competence or integrity. It could just be a broad witch hunt.
I know of a decent sized global ISP that ran (runs?) a large darknet that was the equivalent of a few /16's routed to a fbsd host running 'tcpdump' (a tad more complex, but essentially this). BayTSP (one of the 'make legal threats for the mpaa/riaa' firms) sent ~2k notes to the ISP about downloaders on these ips.
Looking at netflow data (sample 1:1 on that interface) they had portscanned (from ip space registered in their name) each address in the range and sent subpoena-material to all ips that they thought they got a response from.
At least baytsp got theirs? (money I mean)
Do you have any links to evidence of this? I would love to just be able to automatically throw BayTSP mails in the garbage, but I can't just blindly do it if there is any chance of them being legitimate. William