[ILUG] Eircom surrenders

[Paul Mc Auley]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Kevin Philp wrote:
>  From the article its the record companies doing the snooping - does
> anyone know how this works? Where do they get the information?
>
> "the record companies will supply Eircom with the IP addresses of all
> persons who they detect illegally uploading or downloading copyright
> works."

Presumably they get them from the torrent trackers, after all peer to peer 
implies that the peers know each others IP addresses. All they have to do is 
do some form of custom torrent client.
	Paul