With the largest tracker in Lithuania, removed the IP-addresses of users
Lithuanian anti-piracy association LANVA conducted an operation against the country's largest torrent tracker LinkoManija.net . The object of hunting became the users who were on the distribution of the distribution of Windows 7 Ultimate, writes TorrentFreak.
As a result, LANVA agents were able to recognize 106 IP addresses. And although the owner of the tracker Kestas (Kestas) promised to do everything to hide this information from the authorities, but here he could not help. The fact is that LANVA, like any self-respecting anti-piracy organization in each country, specifically registers accounts, posing as a regular user, and collects information from the closed areas of the torrent tracker. Their LinkoManija account was inactive for a long time, but last week they stepped up, announced the operation and showed as proof a screenshot with a list of peers from the µTorrent program.
The owner of LinkoManija.net has already made an official statement. He believes that the list of peers is not evidence, because it does not give any information about how much information was de facto transferred and received from these addresses, and whether at least one entire file was distributed or downloaded from them (of course, it did not going to provide them with this information).
LANVA activists disagree with him. They submitted a list of IP addresses to the police, which would identify the pirates and must obtain evidence of piracy. Some of the users admit themselves, others will find evidence on the hard disk, well, others will probably be left alone. In the event of proof of guilt, the user faces a standard penalty of several hundred dollars, plus the damages that Microsoft can present.
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Kestas, in turn, also filed a lawsuit with the police. He believes that LANVA activists have violated the rules for using the service, because in accordance with the conditions of registration on the site, such people are generally forbidden to create accounts on a torrent tracker.
Kestas also promised legal support to all potential targets for prosecution. “We told our users that we would fight for them if they got into trouble, because it’s a struggle for freedom for all of us,” he added.
By the way, the owner of LinkoManija.net is a personal enemy of the LANVA leadership since he registered the domain name lanva.lt, and then did not want to voluntarily give it to anti-piracy activists.
As a result, LANVA agents were able to recognize 106 IP addresses. And although the owner of the tracker Kestas (Kestas) promised to do everything to hide this information from the authorities, but here he could not help. The fact is that LANVA, like any self-respecting anti-piracy organization in each country, specifically registers accounts, posing as a regular user, and collects information from the closed areas of the torrent tracker. Their LinkoManija account was inactive for a long time, but last week they stepped up, announced the operation and showed as proof a screenshot with a list of peers from the µTorrent program.
The owner of LinkoManija.net has already made an official statement. He believes that the list of peers is not evidence, because it does not give any information about how much information was de facto transferred and received from these addresses, and whether at least one entire file was distributed or downloaded from them (of course, it did not going to provide them with this information).
LANVA activists disagree with him. They submitted a list of IP addresses to the police, which would identify the pirates and must obtain evidence of piracy. Some of the users admit themselves, others will find evidence on the hard disk, well, others will probably be left alone. In the event of proof of guilt, the user faces a standard penalty of several hundred dollars, plus the damages that Microsoft can present.
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Kestas, in turn, also filed a lawsuit with the police. He believes that LANVA activists have violated the rules for using the service, because in accordance with the conditions of registration on the site, such people are generally forbidden to create accounts on a torrent tracker.
Kestas also promised legal support to all potential targets for prosecution. “We told our users that we would fight for them if they got into trouble, because it’s a struggle for freedom for all of us,” he added.
By the way, the owner of LinkoManija.net is a personal enemy of the LANVA leadership since he registered the domain name lanva.lt, and then did not want to voluntarily give it to anti-piracy activists.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/74823/
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