Got some 411 on USENET ?
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If you're running Windows you've already got it. Usenet is older than the World Wide Web. Usenet, bulletin boards and Email *were* the Internet before WWW was started and as big as the Web is, Email is considered to be bigger. If the Web is anywhere now, FidoNet probably was there first.\n\nAnother term for Usenet is Newsgroups. You can go to Google and have it do a search on "groups" and it will give you some idea of what you can find. I've linked to an example search I did for another question using "MobyDick audiobook" as a search term. (1)\n\nIn Windows, Outlook Express the Email reader is also a Usenet reader. This gives you the basics for access. The only other thing you need to get started is access to Usenet, which most (but not all) ISPs provide as part of their subscription. I am given five gigabytes a month by my ISP, which they arrange to have served by GigaNews. I can purchase additional access directly from GigaNews if I wish.\n\nYour ISP will provide you with the settings that you need to put into your "newsreader" (Outlook Express, at first) to get started. If you purchase access, whoever you buy it from will provide the settings.\n\nTo do what you want, you'll have to become more familiar with how it works and add some more powerful programs. I'll put a link below that will give you information that will bring you up to date. (2)\n\nYou'll be finding a whole new world behind the Internet world you thought you knew.
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Absolutely, Usenet downloads can be tracked, in fact any service on the net which is unencrypted can be tracked. The only reason why we don't here about Usenet users getting sued is because of the huge percentage of users on P2Ps than on Usenet. As Wikipedia says, "Some have noted that this seems a monstrously inefficient protocol in the era of abundant high-speed network access. Usenet was designed for a time when networks were much slower, and not always available. Many sites on the original Usenet network would connect only once or twice a day to batch-transfer messages in and out". This is the main reason for lesser usage of this service. An article on CNet also hints on tracking the usenet activity : http://news.com.com/5208-1032-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=9012&messageID=64538&start=-168
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http://compnetworking.about.com/
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You can install a network sniffer and watch the network traffic.  If you see unexpected traffic, you can see the IP address it is coming from.
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look it up on the net
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illegally on the internet somewhere
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Take note of it from any connection to your machine. Trace route it (trcroute) or some other more useful tools which im not gonna say. Best approach is take a guess from the route info on the geographical location (very often the ip names of switches etc show city name codes) follow that down to a 50 miles radius max for a worst case, (microwave links, hardlines etc can make isp kit cover more land than youd think, especially behind proxies) or sometimes a few city blocks with dense usage. No isps i ever heard of distribute maps of hardware at street level, so some detective work is involved so you can use your smarts if you have other clues (example a photo with landmarks) and narrow it right down. Way down. And i mean google earth a pic of the top of their house down. =) The internet is by no means anonymous whatsoever.
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Usenet is actually like a BBS where people chat about anything and everything, but within the subject of a newsgroup's charter. \n\nA few newsgroups have "binary content" and usually have the word "binaries" in their title. Those are the ones containing pictures, files, and such. \n\nYour interests runs a bit on the fetish / bondage side (it's just a statement, don't take it the wrong way) so the best place to look would be on... alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage and similar newsgroups. Unfortunately those newsgroups are grossly polluted with massive auto-spam cross-posts. Find the pics you want without getting grossed out by the rest can be quite difficult. I wish you luck.
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If you use a program called Ethereal, you might be able to trace it...never tried, but it does give you a lot of the behind the scenes stuff with the data communications over networks.
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try tor.eff.org.\n\nmight work
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To Get the information you need to do a whois lookup, here is the site to do that,\n\n http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
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Hey go to this link and you will find some good information about networking http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question353.htm
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Rob Noha begged for money for college on Usenet back in 1988, years before the web existed. It was a small-time post that did not reach very many people, but sparked a very long debate about what should or shouldn't be allowed on the net.
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Here's a couple of places that should give you plenty of information about ip addresses, subnetting, classes, etc
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www.users.globalnet.co.uk
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Nope it has multicast tags for multiple session sharing. That means pretty much anyone sniffing your segment of the network could possibly pick it up.