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French presidential Palace caught out for ‘pirating’
OCCUPANTS of the French Presidential Palace have been caught out downloading copyrighted material illegally.
This news comes despite the fact that French president Nicholas Sarkozy has championed some of the most aggressive anti 'piracy' legislation in Europe.
According to Torrent Freak, people using IP addresses allocated to the 'Lysée Palace' have been 'pirating' copyrighted material.
Data from YouHaveDownloaded.com shows a range of downloads from the French president's palace including a camera copy of Tower Heist, a telesync copy of Arthur Christmas, and music by The Beach Boys.
Yesterday we reported that entertainment industry workers at Sony, Universal and Fox are Bit Torrent 'pirates'.
Youhavedownloaded.com is able to show what users have downloaded using Bit Torrent and it is exposing their IP addresses to others who visit it.
The developers of youhavedownloaded.com want to make people aware of the lack of privacy with Bit Torrent, and they are working on a more anonymous version of the technology.
The Russia based service claims to track about 20 per cent of all public Bit Torrent downloads and displays your IP address and what you have downloaded, immediately when you visit the web site. µ
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This is a non-issue, as govt officials are exempted from laws (such as illegal file sharing) that only apply to the "common" man.
It is quite irresponsible for the Inq to even report this. In many countries where the citizens are handled properly, this kind of "news" would never see the light of day, as it serves no good cause to the people. shame shame shame
Countries have certain IP ranges. Within those ranges certain ranges or particular addresses are bought/used by certain companies, organizations or individuals. It's not because your location on a city level is wrong that it's not your IP because the company guessing your exact location might be using old or incorrect data to make the guess. Also IP's are dynamicaly assigned by the ISP companies to their users so if someone who had your ISP used that an hour before to download something and the IP's get reshuffled it can seem you've downloaded it. Then there's also infected PC's which may serve as proxies or PC's used for TOR etc.
In case of the presidential palace, they probably have a fixed range of IP's so yeah, most likely you even have pirates over there unless some hacktivists used their network to proove that corporate media w***e Sarkozy wrong.
I went to it, i live in Scotland and never use bit torrent, i have usenet access for my legal downloads, it told me i live in London & I'd downloaded the my family box set, this is simply and catagorically not the case.
Oh and I remind you that in many countries and regions they set up systems where many people share the same IP, there's even a country in the middle east that only has one single external IP for the entire country I understand.
Plus there's the issue of ever changing IP assignment when dynamic IP's are used and the piggybacking on other people's WiFi.
Right, you live in asia and are blocked but can comment...
And why don't you mention the country? Asia is a quarter of the world, ranging from china to pakistan (I hate when they call pakistan asia but they do)
I know it can't be china since they certainly are heavily present in torrent exchange, unless you meant to pretend you are in china and it's some exercise in spreading nonsense?
I went to the tracking site and was informed my IP address had downloaded one torrent of over 4gb.
I live in Asia and my ISP blocks all torrent downloads and anything else that seems suspicious to them. They also block all torrent client programmes.
Just more nonsense from the powers that be and those catering to them.