To shell and back

It seems that in many cases RIAA’s primary evidence is the IP address of the user. The evidence is gathered by teams/companies like MediaSentry, and may include the list of files shared by the user, and the files directly downloaded from that specific IP address. By tracing the IP back to the account owner (with the ISP), you have at least basic evidence against somebody.

The list of files shared may sometimes give away the identity of the user. So it is unwise to use something like Kazaa which allows people to browse Shared Files. Bittorrent is perhaps safer, but you could still see the IPs of all the peers sharing a torrent. Can’t we make it even safer by introducing some abiguity, to destroy the credibility of the evidence?

1. What if a peer can act as a relay, maybe 10% of the time? (Choosing a peer can piggy-back on legal file sharing)
2. So, that raises the question – will an IP address be evidence if it is 90% certain that the data came directly from that machine?
3. What is the optimum percentage (instead of 10%) of relaying, to defeat the evidence?

Does something on these lines exist now? I am not into file sharing these days, so I must be out of touch.

1. Thinking about where to take Skillda, Resumity
2. Learning Haskell
3. Badminton
4. Controlling Diet
5. Thinking about being a student again
6. The Guitar
7. Painting
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