MPAA: BitTorrent is the Best Way to Pirate Movies and TV-Shows

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The MPAA, RIAA and the Internet providers participating in the “six strikes” anti-piracy scheme have informed the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee about their plans. The MPAA’s Marianne Grant gave a detailed overview explaining how they gather evidence against illegal file-sharers. She further explained that the MPAA is particularly interested in tracking BitTorrent since it’s the best way for P2P file-sharers to download movies and TV-shows.

Nearly a month ago the six-strikes anti-piracy system was launched in the United States by the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), but aside from a traffic boost at VPN providers and proxies, we haven’t heard much about it since.

Earlier this month several people connected to the CCI presented their plans before the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee. Present were CCI’s Executive Director Jill Lesser, plus representatives from the MPAA, RIAA, Verizon, AT&T and the advisory board.

The most interesting part of the hearing was a presentation from MPAA Senior Vice President Marianne Grant on the evidence collection methods. Grant explained in detail how BitTorrent users are tracked and how the MPAA makes sure that copyright alerts go out to the right subscribers.

According to Grant the MPAA focuses mostly on BitTorrent because that is by far the best way for P2P file-sharers to download movies and TV-shows.

“The thing about BitTorrent is that it’s very efficient at dividing large files up into small pieces and assembling them very quickly on the user’s computer. For film and television it’s by far the best way to get what you want, if you’re interested in that,” Grant says in her intro.

BitTorrent is BY FAR the best…

Grant moves on to explain that the MPAA provides a list of movie and TV-show titles to the tracking company MarkMonitor (DtecNet). This list mostly includes recent and upcoming releases. The tracking company then searches for pirated files on torrent sites.

Every file that’s tracked is downloaded at least once for verification, and someone at MarkMonitor views the video to confirm that it’s the content they’re after.

Grant stresses that it’s vital that both the infringing content and the downloader are accurately tracked.

“We don’t want to send a single notice that isn’t a valid notice. We want to make sure that every single one of them is supported by evidence and a robust communication methodology that makes sure that someone couldn’t come from left field, and send one and pretend to be us,” Grant says.

In the case of the alleged infringer this means that the tracking company actively communicates with the alleged pirate to make sure that this connection is indeed sharing the file.

When the tracking company has verified the content and the downloader, all evidence is packaged and sent to the Internet Provider. The ISP then forwards a copyright alert to the subscriber whose connection was used to share the pirated file.

It is clear that the MPAA is doing all they can to prevent false positives. Their methodology is far better than that employed by copyright trolls for use in their lawsuits, but of course that doesn’t mean that there will be no false positives at all.

Time will tell how accurate the system is.

Thus far we haven’t received any reports of wrongful accusations. In fact, there are very few reports of people receiving a copyright alert at all, which could suggest that CCI is rolling out slowly.

For those who are interested, the full hearing is available on C-Span with Grant’s presentation starting at 25 minutes.

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[insanedown58]

Boys, bring out the VPNs.

[xpmule]

Big money to made here..

3rd party agencies are making a killing for years now and companies like Microsoft have started to clue in..

the recent story about them setting up their own piracy task force is a good example.

they have in the past used a 3 party for that stuff.

There is SO many groups and agencies etc i don't think most file-sharers know how big the business is

or how much money they make from attack so called pirates. They make a fortune suing people.

They make a fortune with extortion letters.. and the make a fortune taking "protection" money

aka: a part of the proceeds on all media that is sold. as well as many countries such as my own that pay a blank media tax

and yet i would still be hunted sued and extorted if they can even if they cash the checks from the Maxel / TDK / Sony etc blank dvd sales.

Ever wonder how so MANY comments get made on Torrents where people scream fake when they are not ?

There is no better way to supplement or hell even take over a dying business model.

This is has been growing into probably a multi-BILLION dollar industry started long ago by the likes of the www.websheriff.com.

Deceitful wormy scumbags hiding in the shadows attacking and harassing and victimizing people for cold hard CASH MONEY $$$

hmm i wonder why i see so many corrupt chunks in my uTorrent log ? i guess that must be a bad connection huh ?

Strange how certified static IP address show up in Peerblock too.. but i guess those are all wrong too right lol

I must be paranoid if i download a Microsoft .iso and see a Microsoft registered IP address connecting to my torrent client.

Pull back the curtain and i would see a MASSIVE framework of roaches spreading propaganda and disrupting as much as they can

why ? because they are the good guys doing the right thing ? If it is the right thing then they should not have to be paid to do it !

No one has ever paid me a cent for file sharing activity..

edit:

I rarely use file sharing man MANY years ago i was into it big time. now i poke a round a bit occasionally and i can take it or leave it..

BUT i want to make sure that future generations are not going to have their rights taken away from them !

So far they have been trying as hard as they can to encroach on our rights and i will not sit back and take it. It's war and i don't intend on losing..

[RMD]

I always read headlines seriously, so this statement from MPAA goes like this in my head: "We've just come up with something! Guys, guys, listen! We might have just reinvented the wheel! Hey guys, guess what we came up with? People use TORRENTS, to easily share movies and TV-shows, ONLINE! Can you believe that? Hey Jerry, come have a look at this! Did you know that these guys that we're tracking actually use TORRENTS, to share their files? Can you believe that!? Neither did I! Never had a clue.

Alright everyone, listen. What we need to do... is come up with a really tight plan, and squeeze these bastards for good! We can do this!"


No MPAA, you stupid, ignorant piece of squirrels sitting on your fat asses with a big pile of cash that you throw to your neighbour co-worker - we REALLY don't care what you come up with. You sit there, thinking that we give more of a *** than we did yesterday, just cause you come up with a new codename for your new "invention" that will "save the humanity from the pirates".

First of all, we "pirates", aren't actually pirates in the first place. We take a -copy- of something, and put it to good use, usually cause we don't have the economy to do the things we wanna do right now, but will redeem the software that we use from companies at a later point in time. I've a better economy now than I did before, and I buy the software that I wanna use, when I get an opportunity to do so as I go through my budget, and if I don't have the money right now, I honestly uninstall that software most of the time, cause I feel better myself that way.


So please, MPAA, stop wasting -our- time, by coming up with these lame excuses to bust our asses for a p0rnography or good movie title, just cause it's a tiny dude sitting in his chair and hoping he will get another dollar in his bank account. We're all tired, and by that I mean -everyone- is tired. You're tired cause you're wasting your time on something you will never be able to stop, and we're tired of your whining cause you just -don't get it-.

I'm out.

[edwardecl]

I use newsgroups myself, might have a hard time catching me uploading anything as I don't need to, and the service providers are not responsible for their users (uploaders) who are probably behind VPNs with bitcoin/prepaid cards anyway, so have fun going after them.

Beyond that I can use various VPN services, some of them are even free and there's nothing stopping you from connecting to a VPN behind a VPN behind a proxy fore free. Have fun tracing that with your crappy traceroute commands.

Then as a last resort their is TOR, which you can connect to from behind several VPNs if you are paranoid. The MPAA have a lot to learn, catching the obvious people is just retarded. And anyway how does this verification work? Just saying an IP address is connectable is not enough. And using a tool like PING to deterimine it, WTF have they ever heard of firewalls dropping ICMP packets? I thought most people dropped ping requests in their firewall rules, or is it just me?

Think the rule is with torrents is never ever upload new releases from your own IP address, and if they ever come after you, never admit anything and just claim you have an ope WIFI connection, what the hell can they say about that. It's only the idiots that get caught.