Fear mongering or reality? Bittorrent users being tracked heavily

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Article: BitTorrent file sharers are heavily monitored, study finds - Yahoo! News Canada

some excerpts from it.

A U.K. study has found that pretty much all files shared with the help of popular torrent sites like The Pirate Bay are monitored — mostly by large internet service companies likely acting on behalf of copyright enforcers or private corporations.

Over the two years between 2009 and 2011 when they conducted their research, they found that those doing the heaviest monitoring of file sharing activity were large internet service providers that rent out server space, host websites and offer other computer services for big clients.

"We speculate that copyright enforcement companies are using these hosting companies as a front to disguise their identities," the researchers write in a paper presented at the SecureComm computer security conference in Padua, Italy, this week.
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Some interesting stuff here. I believe that all torrent sites are being monitored. Well pretty much whatever you do on the internet is monitored and can be pulled up in a defense against you. But these days privacy means nothing.

Only problem is that who can you go after? On a regular basis, how many items are being downloaded? shared? How many users? Are they hiding their IP? Using someone elses?

There are so many issues here to discuss. Ultimately it comes down to privacy vs copyright products. In this case, privacy means absolutely nothing.

Only question I have is that if you quickly download and have your upload speed set at 0 and delete it as soon as the download finishes, can that still be logged?
 
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