On Tuesday 20 August 2002 3:11 pm, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, nate at refried.org wrote: > > The portion of the article I though would be "value add" was the > > honeypot system that they set up to try to find RIAA snoopers. It > > looks for a correspondence between hits in their honeypot to attacks > > on their network. > > How I read it, the honeypot watches for _anyone_ searching for copyrighted > music, and blackholes them from their network. So if an innocent user is > searching for britney_spears-newest_hits.mp3, and tries to grab it, > they'll be blacklisted. Sounded like something to keep RIAA from sueing > them, to me.. Read it again. If you download the music, then ATTACK the system in some way, thats how you get blacklisted. If you just download the files and do nothing, you are fine. Jay