“Notice and Notice system broken in 8 days” read the headline linked to the story about how scare tactics were being employed to convince Canadian Internet Users that downloading but one song file illegally could cost them $150,000.00 for doing so. Copies of the message ISP’s are asked to forward from representation of specific artists and labels.
In fact, there is a sample of the very letter that can be found in an article by Michael Geist here. This article was actually shared by Canada watchdog Openmedia.ca on their Facebook page and returned comments like this one in the feedback
“Thank you!!! Now, Canadians should be asking why companies are getting ISPs to let them sniff your data traffic…”
Honestly, the MPAA and RIAA don’t actually HAVE to get companies to sniff our data traffic to get the information, because it’s already openly accessible to them thanks to they very device being used to download that file…the Torrent file.
Torrents, inherently in the way they have been designed, take small blocks of a file from every user who is sharing it and rebuilds it on the end user’s computer. For this to happen the Torrent needs to know where to seek out these blocks so it does the following,
-Computer 1 sends out a request for information to a central hub
-Hub looks around the other computers connected to it and says “Yes I can pull information from computers 2-100 (or however many there are with the information available)
-that information is then reassembled like a star trek transporter does on computer 1’s system, with computer 1 now hosting the file with the other computers for additional users.
The way the Industry manages to get this information without having to go through the ISP’s for data sniffing is they send out the same request that computer 1 did and use the same protocol, only they have protocols in place that let them read the addresses of the postal system.
you see the internet in many ways works like a big digital version of the snail mail postal system we all know, Computer 1 is your home represented with an Internet protocol address, much like a house number, written in blocks of 3 digits on the back end of systems.
When you request something from a site like Facebook or Amazon, the system says “Hey 123.456.789.000 can you hand us information to send to 000.987.654.321” or what ever your specific computer has been handed for an address.
Torrents work the same way, so along with that bit of that Taylor Swift song that is requested by your computer adds this address information to the data footprint of the song.
Once the Industry has that information saying that X number of data blocks came from your computer they can run that through a IP trace and be told that you IP Address is in a specific city and with a specific service provider, then they contact that service provider and have them forward to you the notice of copyright infringement.
So as you can see, the stool pidgin is not your Internet Service Provider, but in fact the very software that you are using, the message of infringement is only sent through your ISP because they have the information of who is at what address.
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1/05/2015
A new year of Technology awaits
Welcome back to the blog and Inertial Zen Designs hopes everyone had a happy and safe holiday season with family and friends.
As is the usual in January We are now on the eve of the annual CES event in Las Vegas. Many hints have already been released as to what We the users can expect from our technology for the 2015 year. Curved TVs and SSD drives seem to be highlighting the reports so far, computer technology continues to get smaller and more powerful and the battle lines are still drawn in Operating Systems as Samsung has already started to take the first steps in breaking away from Google's Android.
All these changes in technology of course means new ways that consumers will have new and unique ways to access connected technology. as things transition from tablets and smartphones to potentially focusing on more wearable devices.
This should be an exciting time for technology. Hope you all stay on to enjoy the ride
Happy 2015 Everyone
As is the usual in January We are now on the eve of the annual CES event in Las Vegas. Many hints have already been released as to what We the users can expect from our technology for the 2015 year. Curved TVs and SSD drives seem to be highlighting the reports so far, computer technology continues to get smaller and more powerful and the battle lines are still drawn in Operating Systems as Samsung has already started to take the first steps in breaking away from Google's Android.
All these changes in technology of course means new ways that consumers will have new and unique ways to access connected technology. as things transition from tablets and smartphones to potentially focusing on more wearable devices.
This should be an exciting time for technology. Hope you all stay on to enjoy the ride
Happy 2015 Everyone
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