How are people that either download or share files caught and convicted?
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they are notified by mail all the time
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you can't get them off websites - but you can get them off P2P networks.\nJust to warn you though - NOT MY FAULT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT!\nBut if you want to check out some P2P programs (this is just for informational purposes) then check these out:
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Using peer to peer you share your files and will get busted. Using Usenet you only download and don't share.  Checkout www.newzbin.com
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you can find it with using sharing sites or sharing softwares ex; ares/kazaa/eMule/Morpheus/bitcomet.......
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The answers are endless for this.  \n\nYou will need to provide more details to pinpoint the problem.\n\nCould be excessive downloads of large files.\n\nCould be somebody hacking in.\n\nCould be Viri or Worms\n\nCould be insufficient or outdated equipment\n\nCould be your imagination.\n\nGet the idea?
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the above answer is not completely true\n\notherwise, why would there be p2p programs at all?\n\n\nIf you want to share something you created completely on your own, you are free to do so.  But yes, sharing music and video files that you bought is illegal.  If caught, there can be some very stiff fines if not prosecutions & jail time.
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If you live near the area where the report might be, the clerk of criminal courts has the information and it is public.  Go, most are on computer, plug in the name, up pops case #'s etc.  You request the file read it and return it.
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Nope. I don't do it, so I didn't get caught (although there have been other people who don't download songs from the internet that have been caught...)!
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File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing are also downloading files that other users share. Sometimes these two activities are linked together
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There is a risk involved, but the level of risk depends upon WHERE you are downloading them from.  If you are downloading programs through reputable websites such as PCWorld.com or CNET.com, the chances are very slim.  If you are using a peer to peer file sharing program, the risk gets much greater.  It behooves you to ALWAYS run a virus scan on any file that you introduce to your computer prior to running it.
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I read in The New Paper some days back and i saw that a teenager was caught for mass downloading Music and other stuff online. To make this worse...the teenager still used other people internet connections by connecting to them and using them(do not ask me how he did it, I am not too sure)...
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Only if you specificly allow them to.  If you turn on file sharing for a folder and allow everyone access to it, anyone on your local network can upload you a file. \n\nIf you install an FTP program, and forward all the points then they can send you files.\n\nAlthough, if you are asking if people can just randomly send you files without you wanting them to then NO.\n\nYou could also use AIM or IRC to recieve files although it may be slow.
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Filesharing isn't illegal. It isn’t illegal inasmuch that it does not constitute a criminal act.\n\nIf you are caught and if the matter is pursued, it is a civil matter between you and the recording industry and you could be sued. \n\nYou cannot be arrested, searched, fined or imprisoned for filesharing. The recording industries do not have state support, they cannot simply search property at will or seize your possessions, they are private companies with no more rights than private individuals.
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You got it, the best way is through a router.  Just make sure it's a router with a built in ethernet switch (it should have around 5 network ports in the back).  Because it has a built-in firewall, it will keep your network safe from outside attackers while still allowing you to share files!
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It's pretty simple, really, to identify the persons who accessed a website once the server is located.  Web servers maintain a log of all communications.  These logs include the IP address of every session and the date and time.  Most ISPs will cooperate with the authorities when asked to identify the customer who had that IP address at that specific date and time.  Yes, ISPs do maintain that information.  That is only one way that they are identified.  \n\nSeveral years ago I was working at a computer shop.  A machine came in with what appeared to be kiddie porn on it.  We turned it over to the police.  Evidence on that machine lead to coordinated raids in at least 6 countries and several hundred arrests.\n\nMany paeodophiles hang out in chat rooms, both to exchange porn and to attract victims.  The often pose as young children.  Police also lurk in these chat rooms attempting to trap the scum.  Forensic software makes it possible to backtrack the IP address in real time.  Although many of these perverts use "anonymous" proxies to try to hide their true IP address, operators of commercial proxies will always coorperate with authorities.  The operators of rogue proxies will virtually always cave in when threatened with charges of aiding and abetting child pornography.\n\nThere is no true anonymity on the net.  If you are just a curious citizen wondering how we do what we do, now you have an idea.  If you are "one of them" be forewarned:  We WILL track you down and get you.  Be very afraid when you hear that car slowly rolling by at 2:00 AM.  It just might be "The Old Bill" coming for your 'puter.
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Its not that a program can prevent you, its your ISP that can report your illegal activities. There are many many P2P (peer-ro-peer) networks that allow you to download pirated material, but it is usually your ISP that will report your activities to the company that owns the material you are pirated. But sometimes the company files lawsuits against organizations that host the material.
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The stirctest answer is no, it is not legal because you are downloading music or files from other people's hard drive who have purchased it and are sharing it.  That's the problem while you CAN get in legal trouble by downloading stuff this way, chances are the person sharing the files is going to get in trouble, if they are ever caught.\n\nIf you want to stay safe, you can download files relatively safely without getting caught, it's the sharing that gets you in the most trouble.\n\nI would say it lies in a grey area and there is no definitive answer.  If you want my opinion, no it is not really legal but there is nothing in place to really stop it.