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d0mine on Dec 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and ...

> When laypersons claim to be victims of spoofing, they are overwhelmingly likely to be full of it. </quote>

What prevents a tracker to mix up some random IP. How do you know that it is not correct unless your torrent client tries to connect to it?

unabridged on Dec 13, 2011 [–]

Usually for any torrent case just being on the tracker is not enough for conviction, they have to record the user sending copyrighted data to the investigator.

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