p2pnet - rss feed: New Logistep anti-P2P weapon?
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Is an IP address personal information, or isn’t it?” - p2pnet asked in January, going on, “The answer is liable to have wide-ranging ramifications in Switzerland.”
The story was based on an assertion from Logistep AG that, “Through our protected technology it is possible to identify files/ databases and their owners, respectively individual File Traders who seed File-Sharing networks with copyrighted material, in an absolutely clear and reliable manner.”
The company has created a new web page, but that isn’t all that’s under construction, apparently.
According to the site, which wasn’t accessible when we went for look, the existence of a new anti-P2P weapon system may also soon be revealed, says a friend at Germany’s Gulli.
Whether or not it’ll actually be effective is, of course, a different question.
“Our patented ‘LS-Technology’ software system enables us to protect products like Computer Games, Music, Movies and Software in an effective and focused manner,” Logistep stated on an earlier promo page.
“Through our protected technology it is possible to identify files/ databases and their owners, respectively individual File Traders who seed File-Sharing networks with copyrighted material, in an absolutely clear and reliable manner.”
It also promised:
“The findings satisfy all official argumentation requirements.”
Interestingly, Elizabeth Martin, a lawyer hired by Swiss anti-piracy outfit Logistep, was later banned by the Paris Bar Council for six months for mailing “hundreds of thousands of threatening letters demanding that alleged file-sharers pay 400 euros (about $630),” p2pnet said in another story, going on she was also barred from the National Council of the Bars (CNB) and other professional associations for 10 years.
Data Management Tool
“The functioning of the Logistep AG is one of the best kept secrets in the business,” says Gulli, going on it isn’t clear how the firm does what it claims it’s able to do.
Now reports of a Logistep “Data Management Tool” may raise even more questions, it says.
Gulli says Logistep AG is probably, “one of the most feared anti-piracy companies around and we were recently given the URL to a website that’s under construction”.
We hit “access forbidden” when we went over to eparken.com, but Gulli says it included (and probably still includes) a set of sample questions and answers, as well as an apparent blacklist of alleged offenders, which also has their location, amopunts paid, and service provider.
Gulli, which also seriously questions Logistep AG’s “professionalism” from a number of different points of view, says it’s continuing its research and is expecting some interesting results.
Meanwhile, eparken.com is a domain controlled by two nameservers at 1blu.de, says robtex.com, going on»»»
They are on different IP networks. Incoming mail for eparken.com is handled by one mailserver at eparken.com themselves.
eparken.com has one IP record. 1bn.eu, kacr.de, xpg4.net, vaiw.net, btmx.net and at least 100 other hosts point to the same IP. 44v.de, di3.de, wsg.de, k-jg.de, kacr.de and at least 100 other hosts share nameservers with this domain.
gomi.de, kacr.de, rc4u.de, ws4y.de, h-bm.org and at least 80 other hosts share mailservers with this domain.
mail.eparken.com are subdomains to this hostname.
Definitely stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
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p2pnet - Logistep law-breaking anti-file-share maneuver, January 26, 2008
another story - Anti-P2P lawyer barred, April 5, 2008
Gulli - Logistep data management tool, August 9, 2008
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August 11th, 2008 at 11:53 am
More hot air and false claims from a two-bit Swiss company.
The EU commisioner has already stated IP information is personal information, any company harvesting this information illegally is commiting a criminal offence, if you receive a letter mentioning this company take it to the police and demand they investigate this crime.
August 11th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
WTF is LS-Technology? My monies on Lame and Stupid Technology.
Do they account for things such as GPL or BSD licensed software which people are allowed to distribute in spite of the fact that it is protected by copyright? Or other media that the copyright holder has licensed for free distribution such as certain CBC and BBC programs?
Inquiring minds want to know.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
More snake oil for the ’short bus’ people that use the RIAA as a front.
Let them spend more money that they claim they don’t have since
file sharers have left them so destitute.
Funny how they still can spend millions on lawsuits and vaporware.
August 11th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
These companies are all alike, they get their “technology” out there, if it proves marginally effective or better, it will be hacked, cracked, and blocked, in under 2 weeks. Odds are, it won’t prove marginally effective, and may prove in many countries to be illegal (gathering and storing specific individuals information, without their knowledge or consent) depending on what it actually does. Regardless, what can be made, can be hacked, end of story.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:14 am
@Ordinary Guy
2 weeks? TrafficLoader.com was taken offline hours after TF exposed them
I also sent an email to the webmaster; still awaiting a response
Logistep is going to crumble just like MediaDefender and I have to agree with #1 it is illegal to harvest that information
August 13th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Snake Oil indeed. It is probably just as effective at stopping piracy
as SafeMedia’s Closeau or AudibleMagic’s audio fingerprinting.
Which is to say that it is totally ineffective at doing so.