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Students at UCR (University of California Riverside) did research 4 years ago on this topic and their results were frightening for anyone who participates in P2P sharing such as torrents, etc...
Here's an excerpt:
In an effort to prosecute P2P users, RIAA and MPAA have reportedly started to create decoy users: they participate in P2P networks in order to identify illegal sharing of content. This has reportedly scared some users who are afraid of being caught. The question we attempt to answer is how prevalent is this phenomenon: how likely is it that a user will run into such a .fake user. and thus run the risk of a lawsuit? The first challenge is identifying these .fake users.. We collect this information from a number of free open source software projects which are trying to identify such IP address ranges by forming the so-called blocklists. The second challenge is running a large scale experiment in order to obtain reliable and diverse statistics.
So.... Hide or block your identity when using P2P filesharing!
Anyone who downloads or uploads via P2P should be educated on the facts and dangers! Here is some more info on this shocking report:
P2P researchers: use a blocklist or you will be tracked... 100% of the time
UCR Newsroom: In P2P, Illegal Downloading Has Consequences
Full report in pdf format: http://jaheit59.home.xs4all.nl/P2P%2...nia%202006.pdf