Extra Credit Post

Andrejevic discussed the topic of surveillance in several chapters, which Brian demonstrated in class by showing us how easy it is to find information on people. It is nearly impossible to hide, even if you're a skilled hacker running one of the oldest bittorrent sites on the internet, Filesoup. The police were able to track "TheGeeker" home address by an undisclosed method, which I can only assume was by IP address. When they took him into custody he asked to make several phone calls, but he was informed that the Inspector had all outgoing communication blocked. They were able to access all of his mediums of communication and lock them all up, which I find pretty terrifying. I feel like everyone has downloaded something illegal in their lives, whether it be music or a movie from a bittorrent site. The alarming thing is that under copyright these are serious crimes, and they could easily find out our home address by looking up our IP address.

http://torrentfreak.com/oldest-bittorrent-site-targeted-by-police-owner-arrested-090804/