Relative Risks of Torrenting

The question is: "Is there as much risk in getting a DMCA type of violation letter when you download old TV series to the same degree as you do when you download movies?" - "Surely they are both copyrighted material, but do the owners of the TV programs really care that viewers are sharing and catching up on old shows? However, allowing you to download old shows promotes the currently aired ones?"

The answer to the question about how much risk depends on where you live and what you are downloading. For example, downloading a current or recent Hollywood movie is far more likely to trigger a Copyright holding to start proceeding against you than say a re-run of "Big Love". It also depends on what measures you are taking to avoid detection.

Some searches:
risk of torrenting - Philadelphia - 9 Aug 2010
risks of torrenting - Janesville, Wisconsin- - 9 Aug 2010
what are the risks of torrenting - Harrisonburg, Virginia, 18 Aug 2010

How your IP address can appear in a peer list

Links:

• Torrenting page on The Technology Muse 
• Will Peerblock stop my ISP detecting what I am downloading?
• Anti P2P Organizarions - APOs, AP2P
• IPTorrents.com - is this a "safe" alternative?
• Throttling and your ISP

WikiPedia Credibility

Quoting WikiP as a source is not usually a good idea in an academic work. Whether or not the information on the Wiki page is correct is beside the issue. Due to the nature of the content of Wikipedia, being compiled and edited by the "experts" in the field, the facts presented are such that they are what the author wants you to believe is the truth.

In cases where an axe is wishing to be ground the presentation of information is likely to be highly biased. This is particularly true when there is something to be gained either politically, financially or both. The use of the information to "sell" is too irresistable for most!

This fact is borne out by the fact that my website is quoted as a source by a number of WikiP entries. Some of these references are to pages that were posted in the frustration with manufacturers in their inability to be forthright with their customers about the specifications of their products. Intel is one of the companies to which I refer, wrt Notebook Processors.

Using Tor for BBC iPlayer Access outside the UK

A complete description on how to do this is to be found on my website. www.tempusfugit.ca

Torrent and Bandwidth Hogs

Why would an ISP offer accounts with 95G of bandwidth per month if they didn't have the network infrastructure to support 3 to 4GBytes of traffic per day?

To say that ISPs would rather the users of torrents go away and that this is detrimental to the other users of the network does not make sense.

Copyright infringement and DRM is another issue and will be pursued.

Deleting pages from Google Cache

This is a new one for me! Always willing to try something new.



Question is: How long do the pages take to actually disappear from the listings?

I must admit that I hadn't added the profile for the blog to Google's Webmaster Tools (just the website)

If this works, it will be an interesting tool.

With respect to the blogger.com blog - a page that no longer exists returns what is presumed to be a "custom 404" page. It this is not the case then the removal may not work.