On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:11:36PM -0500, 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.. You'd better reread paragraph 3. "... Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network. ..." Nate