Regional differences in P2P

Sat Jul 17 03:05:27 UTC 2004

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> > Private FTP sites seem to be more common among those who trade
> > unlicensed, copyrighted material for profit.  This is clearly
> > criminal.  Certainly this isn't what your average P2P user is doing.
> 
> Has anyone ever done a money trail investigation regarding this? The only
> people I ever thought was making money off of copyrighted material was the
> people selling "warez CDs" in the small ads in the paper, and that was 5-8

I have't seen all that much warez doing the rounds of random ftp sites - 
quite often running on backdoored boxes in places with a lot more 
bandwidth than clue level (corporations, student dorm rooms ...)

What I do get to notice is a lot of porn being distributed that way.

	srs

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