41 per cent of all P2P file-sharers would be prepared to use some form of anonymity service to hide their identity should they receive a warning letter from their internet service provider, according to a recent survey.
The web poll of over 19,000 P2P users, carried out by news site Torrentfreak, also notes that 38 per cent of respondents would ignore any ISP warnings but take more caution with P2P use, while a mere 7 per cent would stop sharing files altogether.
The other 14 per cent would just carry on as if nothing had happened!
Of course, instead of wasting all your time, effort and bandwidth downloading all your music illegally, you could always switch to using (legal) streaming sites such as Spotify, if you do have any concerns about the amount of MP3s (illegally) coming up your pipe.
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tech89
June 24th
1. Spotify is fantastic. Listen free and if like buy the CD if wish to do so.
Using an anonymity service through a proxy is not that useful, most proxies strangle bandwidth unless you pay serious bucks and even then you'll only get a set number of streams that will timeout which all contribute to a download speed that will go up and down all the time and will lead to slow/er download times.
I have no sympathy for the music/film industry whatsoever as in America they fined a woman $2,000,000 for downloading 24 tracks - doesn't that seem a little TOO extreme? Why not just fine the price of the tracks plus %20. Why the stupid/horrific fines for for a small number of tracks?
On one last note spotify isn't perfect: it's missing the Beatles for one thing.
What i find ridculous is that a downloaded track costs roughly £0.79p and a CD album (1 year old or less) can be bought from amazon for £3.50. It's no surprise that people are downloading illegally.
For album's CD's are generally cheaper than downloads if you buy from amazon.
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