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stats from Sun May 29 06:57:05 2005 to Wed Jun 8 20:00:11 2005 GMT
Brazil
26%
Argentina
15%
Finland
13%
Poland
6%
Czech Republic
5%
Chile, Norway, Slovenia
3%
Australia, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Canada, Japan, France
2%
Uruguay, Russian Federation, New Zealand, Lithuania, Bulgaria, United States, Cyprus, Gibraltar, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Portugal, Panama, Greece,
1%
Well, because of the great fucking audiences there....

[ the usual technobabble...
a) Of course we are tracking IP addresses. Partly because it's so easy nowadays. Why do you think they call it a "tracking server" or "tracker"? Think about it.. old p2p networks made gathering this information at least a little bit of a hassle. Modern ones publish all the thieves' IP addresses as a matter of course. It's integral to the protocol, it's more efficient. They are not designed to be anonymous, and of course we come prepared into the fight this time. Regardless of what we will use it for, the logged info is quite interesting and if you don't capture that information it's gone.
b) It's of course trivial to find out if anyone here is participating in this theft. In fact, it's trivial to do automatically! Just look at the "tracked" time and IP with the time and IP of logins here, and see if there are overlaps (however you want to define those). That's like one line of SQL code.
Apart from the shame, any history you have here could of course also be used as part of the evidence...
If you are a regular poster here and downloaded some of our music illegaly, then you'd likely be in our logs already and it's possible that I'll make some automatic "shame symbol" appear on your posts later. Fuck it, maybe not

Well. Apart from this weird trojan issue, any time you have a partially completed download open, you for sure risk ending up in the log file of some lawsuit-happy copyright holder's (us or some much worse people than us). Who knows if we would ever take the time to sue anyone.. perhaps the original seeder if we can find him, that's for sure. I mean more like "star wars" or something, these guys have pretty deep pockets. Like I said the file sharing protocols are technically really quite good nowadays, but they sacrifice anonymity completely. ]
Just had sauna at TK's place. 3rd lapin kulta half gone. Summer night in Helsinki. That is something fucking nice! Today really was a gorgeous day here.
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