Researcher at Ireland’s UCD Centre for Cybercrime Investigation (CCI) identifies 64,152 users he claims are suspected of illegal file-sharing “last week alone.”
I always love a good study in the morning and so it was a new one by researcher Alan Hannaway at Ireland’s UCD Centre for Cybercrime Investigation (CCI) that caught my eye.
Billed as the first “comprehensive survey” of illegal P2P in Ireland, he identified some 64,152 IP addresses that he claims were involved in copyright infringement “last week alone.”
Hannaway told the Irish Times that the identifications methods were borne from original research that was modified and improved to create software that is “faster and more accurate” than anything previous.
“We took our core research and tweaked it so it would work on these networks and we have a system that can very quickly identify with a certain level of accuracy the peers that are showing these contents at any point in time,” he says. “This was originally a piece of research. We didn’t think that this would have a commercial application, but we have interest from companies that have lost money because of illegal downloading.”
Therein lies the rub.
CCI was formally established back in 2006 to help educate those investigators needing “a set of special skills, such as methods of classic computer forensics, live computer forensics, and specific tactics of cybercrime investigation” to pursue cybercrime cases.
What makes illegal downloading so much different from other so-called “cybercrimes” is that it mainly involves sharing copyrighted material for noncommercial gain. Although copyright holders can argue the practice results in a loss of profits their perceived losses and actual losses are practically impossible to discern.
Also, this new software still makes the same mistake of identifying only an IP address and not the actual person responsible. It’s already been shown that people can easily hijack a person’s Wi-Fi connection and that a inanimate objects like printers can also be blamed.
Let’s hope the CCI decides to focus on more pressing concerns like identity theft and child porn.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
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How were the details gathered?
Were the suspected ip’s harvested from public trackers?
Was this done on the ISP side, using DPI?
A lot of questions about this ‘comprehensive study’ need answering before posting something like this.
If there is anything this ‘study’ has revealed, it’s that the cogs and wheels of a corrupt and manipulated machine are turning. The governments mouthpiece known as the Irish Times, are of course making fertile ground for an ‘argument’ over piracy.
End result is the ACTA, forged by the forced LISBON TREATY ‘yes’ vote, and paid/lobbied/argued for by corporations.
We better get used to things like this.
Lest we become ‘terrorists’.
Alas, most people are too stupid to care, or inform themselves.
And the real trouble is, when you can see it all happen ahead of you,when you DO inform yourself, you’re left hepless and frustrated.
Disgusted.
Terrorism is getting slowly more attractive than the ‘dumb-f*ck unemployed consumer citizen cattle’ role….