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Filesharing Troubles – BTGuard May 25

In meinem Freundeskreis gibt es mitlerweile 3 Leute die eine Anzeige bekommen haben weil sie Raubkopien von Software oder Musik etc aus dem Internet runtergeladen haben und dabei erwischt wurden. Die Geldstrafe war jedesmal ganz schoen hoch… so hoch, dass es sich lohnen wuerde einen Service wie btguard.com zu nutzen.

Firmen wie MediaSentry sammeln die IP Adressen in den P2P Protokollen von Filesharing Programmen wie zB BitTorrent oder emule, diese Protokolle beinhalten die Informationen ueber welche Dateien zu welchen Zeitpunt von einer bestimmten IP heruntergeladen wurde. Die Besitzer der Urheberrechte beauftragen dann Anwaelte ueber den Internetanbieter (wie zB Telekom oder Ewetel usw) den Namen und die Adresse des Kunden herauszufinden dem zu dem Zeitpunkt die IP Adresse zugeteilt war als in dem P2P Protokoll stand.

Btguard ist ein service bei dem man anonym ueber einen Server in Canada auf torrent files zugreifen kann, dank der gesetzlichen Privatssphere werden keine Protokolle ueber die Nutzer des Servers gefuehrt und so ist es unmoeglich fuer andere die IP Adresse herauszufinden. Ohne die IP Adresse ist es unmoglich zurueckverfolgt zu werden.

Es gibt ein Minuspunkt bei btguard.com, die Verbindung zwischen dem Nutzer und dem Server von btguard ist nicht verschluesselt, so ist moeglich fuer den Internetservice Provider zu sehen was man runterlaedt. Soweit ich weiss verschwendet kein ISP seine Zeit/Geld damit herauszufinden ob der Datenverkehr evtl. ein Download von einer Raubkopie ist und es waere in Deutschland eh illegal die Daten unaufgefordert weiterzugeben. Es waere eine gute Idee mal die “Privacy Policy”/Vertrag etc von eurem ISPs zu studieren, ich weiss dass in England zB nun einige ISPs den Traffic analysieren und selbst den Anwalt spielen.

Mich wuerde interesieren ob die Straftat darin besteht, dass ueber einen ANSCHLUSS heruntergeladen wurde, oder ob es darum geht WER es gewesen ist. Es kann ja zB sein, dass man einen Wireless Router ohne Verschluesselung hat und sich eine fremde Person via Wifi auf dem Router eingelogt hat um etwas herunterzuladen. Um es noch dramatischer zu machen, kann man den Wireless Router ja auch via WEP verschluesseln, eine Verschluesselung die man sehr Leicht hacken kann, und dann behaupten es sein ein Hacker gewesen der sich zum Router und damit Internet Zugang verschafft hat…

English:

So far 3 friends of mine have been busted for downloading pirated software or music. The fine was pretty high, in fact so high it would be worth to use a service like the btguard.com

Companies like MediaSentry collect IP addresses on P2P protocols like BitTorrent, these protocols show which IP address has downloaded which file at a certain point in time. The right holders then send the IPs to a lawyer who contacts your ISP to find out the name and address of the person who used the IP address that was used to download their software or music or other intellectual property. Once they got that information, they will simply send you a letter and ask to pay a fine in a pretty high amount of money or threaten to take the matter to court.

Btguard is a a service with which you can download torrent files anonymously through a server in Canada. Thanks to Canada’s privacy laws, they don’t have to keep a record of what the people are doing through their server and are therefor not able to tell anyone who downloaded what at any time.

The only downside with btguard is that this is only a proxy service, so the traffic between the user and the server is not encrypted, which means that ISPs can (potentially) still monitor it. It is unlikely that the ISP will spend the time to find out if the traffic could be the download of a pirated file. Even if, it is illegal to pass on such information to third parties. You may wanna check your Privacy Policy on that one, different countries – different laws… in the UK, some the biggest ISPs do check the traffic and play the laywer themselves now. It is written in their Terms of Use / Privacy Policy.

It would be interesting to know if it has to be proven that YOU downloaded pirated stuff or if it’s enough to say that your connection was used. Because you could for example have a open wireless router so others can simply use your internet connection to download stuff. You could also be more dramatic about it and claim that someone must have hacked into your wireless router that was protected via the WEP encryption, it’s a common encryption that is supported by virtually ALL wireless router and it can be hacked very easily.

Du bist Terorist / You are Terrorist May 23

Gemeinsam für ein sicheres Deutschland. Die Kampagne „Du bist Deutschland“ war 2005 der Beginn einer positiven Stimmungswelle im ganzen Land. Diese gebündelte Energie hat sich 2009 umgekehrt, denn nun bist du potenzieller Terrorist und wirst überwacht.

DuBistTerrorist.de

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R.I.P. Robert Donley May 22
one of the last view Robert had

Robert's view of the Alps from Trimmis, Chur in Switzerland

I just heard the sad news of the death of Robert Donley from New Zealand, he died during his holiday in the Swiss Alps last week.

I don’t expect you knew him, I got to know him through wild circumstances I think will be too long to explain and bore you anyways, but he was a good guy and I will miss him. We had occasional chats and from what I can tell he was a down to earth guy and we had similar interests. I am sad I never got to meet him in person, he was one of two people I really wanted to visit when I make my way to Australia and New Zealand. He will be missed by many, that is for sure!

Rest In Peace Robert!

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9/11′s a lie May 22

As a supporter of the “other conspiracy theory” (The one that is supported by facts – not the fairytale that the US government and mainstream media wants to make us believe), I am a bit surprised to have just now stumbled across this really really cool music video.

If you believe Terrorists flew those planes, why is it that most passengers have mystically been identified even from the pentagon crash – where the whole plane and the jet engines were pulverized, but not a single body from a terrorist has been identified?! Read it up, it’s true – they had 8 bodies they could not identify and simply said: those are the terrorists then. No further prove was necessary for them.
If you believe that Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks, why is it that the FBI lists him in the most wanted list but in the details 9/11 is NOT listed as a crime he is wanted for! Why? Accordingly to the FBI: “There is simply no hard evidence to link Osama Bin Ladin to the 9/11 attacks”, still somehow there was reason enough to invade Afghanistan. Don’t believe it?  Click here
I will put a list together of all the hard facts that have been uncovered in the last 8 years that make the official conspiracy theory of some Terrorists with box cutters a total joke. I challenge all of you to disprove any of these facts, also please enlighten me on how these airplanes could have caused the 2 towers and building 7 to collapse the way they did. How did the airplane that hit the pentagon punch an exit hole through the building, when nothing officially exited the building as it all got pulverized?!

Unter falscher Flagge May 19

Was geschah wirklich am 11. September?

Während die Amerikaner verhältnismäßig schnell mit gefälschten Beweisen zuerst Afghanistan und später den Irak angreifen, wächst der Zweifel an der offiziellen Version des 11. Septembers. Was unmittelbar nach den Anschlägen an Spekulationen im Internet kursierte, galt bisher als wilde Verschwörungstheorie. Doch die Indizien und sogar Beweise zeichnen ein deutliches Bild. Nicht islamische Terroristen, sondern einige ranghohe Militärs und Politiker der US-Regierung selbst, scheinen für die schrecklichen Anschläge verantwortlich zu sein.

Unten in der leiste vom video ist ein kleines Rechteck mit einem Pfeil in der oberen rechten Ecke, da draufklicken um das Video im Vollbild zu sehen.

Ben’s 1st Birthday May 13

Today is Ben’s 1st Birthday!!!

I think we are spoiling him, or at least I cannot remember that I got a cake for my first birthday…

bens-1st-birthday

We had a nice little b-day party with the family, Ben’s grandma and his two uncles where here (one with gf) and also a friend with whom I watched the new Star Trek movie in my home theater later :)

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ImageDepot.asia May 13
To have my own image hosting and photo gallery website is something that has been on my mind for quite some time. So, in a odd moment extreme productivity I created the Image Depot, a service offering free image hosting for everyone, you can also create your own free photo gallery when creating a free account. Each photo gallery you create can be password protected, so only the people you want can view the images within. .You can easily embed pictures (show them directly) in other websites by using one of the pre-formatted HTML or BB codes.

My suggestion is to use the service as backup for the photos you don’t ever want to lose. I intend to keep ImageDepot.asia online forever and it will always offers free image hosting for as long as it exists. I hope you enjoy this service, please reply to this post with ideas or comments you’d like to share with me.

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