[Slugnet] [OT] Odex won court order to reveal illegal downloader

[Chng Tiak-Jung]

I know this is totally out-of-topic, but my wife told me just now this news
that Odex, a local Anime distributor actually went around suing the illegal
downloaders (including a 9 years old child).

You can see more details about the Odex and their legal actions from here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odex

What I am curious is: Odex claimed that they can track down the downloaders
who are using BitTorrent for download.

I wonder how much truth is it in their so-called evidence, or is it just a
"scare tactics" to get the downloader to admit themselves ?

How can they really proven that the person has actually downloaded the full
content ? does owning 50% of the fragments of the file illegal ? 60% ? ...
90% ?

>From my limited understanding of IP (internet protocol) and BitTorrent, I
believe there must be many ways that you can use Linux to make the
"evidence" irrelevant.

Well, that is provided that these people are using Linux, of course :)

Regards,
T J
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Chng Tiak-Jung
email: tiakjung at gmail.com
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