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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth
The U.S. Copyright group was using some kind of software where they would connect directly to people downloading / seeding the file to make sure they did in fact have the copyrighted material in question, and put a time stamp on it. Sounds like it is pretty fool proof, but that could just be all talk on their part. The trouble is even if a person tries to use that defense, they are going to have to spend the money to defend themselves in court. Most will just settle if it comes to that point.
As far as I know the wifi defense has never worked. I have heard of some regions talking about making having an unsecured wifi signal coming from your home a criminal offense.
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I don't see how they could "legally" check someone's computer with out consent or a warrant. The data passing from one computer to another is secure and private. I don't think they can't legally sniff or mine the data being transferred and use it in court.
I'd guess, if that is what they did, it's the producers whom helped seed to movie then simply logged the IP's they shared to. That is likely going to be a problem if that's what they did due to entrapment.
It would be like the producers handing out DVD rips of their movie on a busy street corner then trying to make cops arrest the people whom took the DVD as bootleggers.