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This is a general discussion.

Now a days file sharing through torrents has become very popular. People are actively participating in sharing the illegal and copyrighted matrilas like movies, songs, games and other stuffs.

Even though knowing that their IP can be traced out from the trackers people are indulging into piracy through torrents. Is it not possible to stop them?

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A complete shutdown of torrent-based piracy is not realistic. As noted, visibility of participants in a swarm gives the impression enforcement should be easy; as pointed out, legal and practical realities are very uneven. The network design, cross-border jurisdiction, and the low cost of running mirror sites and relays mean there is no single technical choke point that guarantees eradication.

Practical success comes from a mixture of legal, commercial and technical measures. Rights holders use automated monitoring, targeted litigation, and notice-and-takedown processes (see the US DMCA for the takedown framework: DMCA). Policymakers and platforms reduce harm by blocking major facilitators, partnering with access providers, and — importantly — creating affordable, convenient legal services so users choose legitimate options. Civil liberties and enforcement tradeoffs are discussed by groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

About the proxy/connection problem raised here: sites fail to load for many reasons beyond simple blacklisting. Common causes are DNS/host resolution mismatches, proxy authentication failures, proxies that don’t support HTTPS CONNECT or WebSockets, SNI or IPv6 routing issues, or application-level blocking and CAPTCHAs. Troubleshooting steps: verify DNS resolution and TLS behavior, test a request from the command line (for example curl -I https://example.com), check browser proxy settings and authentication, try an alternate endpoint or port, and confirm whether the anonymizing service supports the protocols the site requires.

Focus on risk reduction rather than total elimination: combine legal avenues, better commercial offers, monitoring for large-scale distributors, and user education about malware and legal risk. For technical details about how peer-to-peer systems work, see the BitTorrent protocol overview (BitTorrent).

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Member Avatar for Ezzaral

I don't know - but it has nothing to do with PHP so perhaps you should post such general ponderings over in the Geek's Lounge?

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Sounds like a homework question to me.

A) its not illegal in all countries
B) its extrememely hard to track these pirates
C) the police have better things to do

Member Avatar for Anupkumar

Sounds like a homework question to me.

A) its not illegal in all countries
B) its extrememely hard to track these pirates
C) the police have better things to do

Hey, I had seen torrent software called Utorrent. In that software, those who partipcipate in the file sharing activity, it will show the ip address of all participants. That means those set of users will be sharing a common file. Thus, won't it become easy to track them with their ip?

Member Avatar for jbennet

Some of use proxies and you generally need court orders for each of them to track them ($$$$$$)

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Some of use proxies and you generally need court orders for each of them to track them ($$$$$$)

You mean if people use proxy, then proxy ip will only be displayed in the list while file sharing. Then people will use proxy to use file sharing activity also. Thats bad..........

Member Avatar for Anupkumar

I tried using a proxy ip. I even succeeded. But, problem was, many web pages were unable to open. What might be reason?

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The IP of proxies are generally blacklisted by most sites because hackers like to proxies when they are attacking sites

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