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Um... That's two unrelated statements...

"You (may) have violated the DMCA by downloading a movie through bittorent" Statement one...

If you have downloaded a movie through bittorent then you may have violated the DMCA. Whether you ACTUALLY violated the DMCA depends on whether the movie was copyrighted or not , and if it was under what conditions it has been released.

"I thought bittorent is suppose to be good for p2p" Second statement...

This one is relatively meaningless. The first part says that you are expressing an opinion rather than a fact (just as well)... but the opinion is meaningless. "BitTorrent is supposed to be good for P2P." Well, that depends on your definition of "good for P2P"... From the website it looks like it is a fairly reasonable P2P app. However that doesn't mean that it provides privacy, that the connections are encrypted or that your ISP isn't telling the truth.

It sounds like you think "good p2p" is encrypted and private. BitTorrent doesn't seem to provide encryption or privacy, just a distributed file sharing mechanism. It's good at what it does, but that doesn't mean it's what YOU wanted.

Z.

here's one for ya:

just got a letter from my isp that i have violated the dmca by downloading a movie through bittorent....wtf? i thought bittorent is suppose to be good for p2p?

Everyone should change their username to the default username (i.e. kazaaliteuser@Kazaa), depending on what P2P you're using. Also K-lite ++ blocks RIAA ip's and many others...

So are they going after opennap or just p2p? Any idea?

How does bit torrent do for p2p security, anyway? It's pretty hard to find out how much stuff is being shared over bittorrent...

Craniac (/m30) logged in users are a security vulernability
because they have authenticated themselves and can be more
easily tied together even if their IP address changes.