Kazaa Being Monitored? from ZP
posted by JAX2K2 on June 11, 2003 @ 01:40am
Whats this controversy we have all been hearing in the news in the past few months about weather kazaa is being montored by any federal or other piracy agencies. Well think again! Yes, that’s right. If you ever have used Kazaa well here is a good news for you that your IP, host name, isp, and anything you ever downloaded was saved on a log and sent to a agency that is montorig your connection, most likely your isp, in this case it was FastTrack. Now how do you believe me if that is really happening? Well we did a little experiment for outselves to check it out. I downloaded a Motion Picture (Name Removed) from Kazaa lite and then a few days later we get a e-mail from the ISP of the person who performed this test for us, saying how we broke the AUP of the ISP and that we should take matters into our hands.
The company supposibly reported it to our ISP was Universal City Studios Productions LLLP. This is a little bit of information on what they had to say to the ISP.
Quote:
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It has come to our attention that <> Services is the service provider
for the IP address listed below, from which unauthorized copying
and distribution (downloading, uploading, file serving,
file "swapping" or other similar activities) of Universal?s
motion picture(s) listed below is taking place. We believe that
the Internet access of the user engaging in this infringement is
provided by <> or a downstream service provider who purchases
this connectivity from <>.
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Alot of people have asked if this applies to Kazaa Lite to and Yes it does because we tested on a regular machine with kazaa and one with kazaa lite!
That’s a little part of the e-mail that was sent to the ISP from Univsersal Studio’s. When we were first notified about this we were in a little bit of shock our selves too because, we always heard that Kazaa is safe and this is that.
Here is a little part of the rest of the e-mail containing the part where the person’s information was stored that was sent to the ISP.
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Title: << REMOVED >>
Infringement Source: FastTrack
Initial Infringement Timestamp: 18 May 2003 09:48:36 GMT
Recent Infringment Timestamp: 18 May 2003 09:48:36 GMT
Infringer Username: << REMOVED >>
Infringing Filename: << REMOVED >>
Infringing Filesize: 710539264
Infringers IP Address: << REMOVED >>
Infringers DNS Name: N/A
Infringing URL: << REMOVED >>
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