Protecting my anonymity

[highkite]

Limewire does not display the pathnames of found files. I mean the pathname (you could call it the complete file name) on the remote computer containing the found file. But it seems like Limewire must "know" the path name, which means it wouldn't be hard to hack Limewire or some other Gnutella client, to reveal pathnames of found files.

Is this correct?

If it is correct, should Limewire users be advised to eliminate identifying information from pathnames to shared folders? If, for instance, if my shared folder is stored in Bob Johnson's documents\my music\shared music, then someone out there, the RIAA for example, could easily find out that someone named Bob Johnson is illegally sharing music. That might make it easier for them to sue me. (My name is not Bob Johnson, by the way.)

Is this too paranoid?

KH