monitoring downloads

How can authorities monitor what people are downloading if P2P is just from one computer to another and not through a central hub.

E.g I I were to download Starwars for example, how would they know unless it was being downloading from them direct?

[baby]

I have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Try explaining it more clearly.

Basically

P2P is all about people searching and downloading from other peoples computers right?

So it does not involve a central server that everyone connects to and downloads from agree?

So in that case if you are downloading something from someone else and that person is not "the authorities" then how can they know what you are downloading?


to simplyfy: How the hell can a film board or music company monitor what people are downloading if you only connect to single users?

If Mr A is downloading Starwars from Mr B, then how can MR C know? unless he is sitting on the same computer as MR B/

Comprende?

Very simple: They claim to have the file you're looking for resp. trying to download. They can't monitor/catch everyone this way but a good amount of people. Whether that's legal or useful in the court is another question.

[stief]

A company callled MediaSentry revealed some of their methods in a Canadian court case about file sharers' ID's last year

Mr. Millin also testified that his company provided a service called MediaDecoy which distributes bogus or inoperative files over the internet. People downloading these files think incorrectly that they are music files. The files are made to look like real music files, but they are inoperative. When he was asked whether he could tell whether any of the files allegedly copied from the alleged infringers were MediaDecoy files, Mr. Millin stated that he had not listened to any of the files copied from the alleged infringers and that listening to the files was not work that his firm was contracted to do or the “process that we set up with CRIA” (Millin cross-examination, QQ 107-107, 189-196). This kind of remote evidence in no way qualifies under Rule 81. There is, thus, no evidence before the Court as to whether or not the files offered for uploading are infringed files of the plaintiffs.

from the decision "T-292-04.pdf" available at http://www.cippic.ca/en/projects-cas...ring-lawsuits/