The name and address of who owns any IP address is publicly available at www.arin.net, www.ripe.net or www.apnic.net just like contact information for domains are available at www.allwhois.com or any whois lookup site. I don't see any problem with posting public information to this forum.

Read the terms:

A3. Copyright information

A3.1 RIPE Database copyright
The information in the RIPE Database is available to the public for agreed Internet operation purposes, but is under copyright. The copyright statement is:

"Except for agreed Internet operational purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the RIPE NCC on behalf of the copyright holders. Any use of this material to target advertising or similar activities is explicitly forbidden and may be prosecuted. The RIPE NCC requests to be notified of any such activities or suspicions thereof."

Morgwen

I was wondering what one could do to stop people from downloading pornography of a minor that was put on lime wire without their consent. Is there any way to stop something like that other than taking legal action? Who would I need to contact?

I have a friend who has been exploited on this site without her consent and is underage. It has now gone all over the country and it needs to be stopped. If necessary I and several others are prepared to file a lawsuit against whoever this involves. If a reply is posted to this, I will give further necessary information so that this video can be pulled from this and any other site it may be on. If not, legal action will be taken.

Oh, come on. Don't bring up the "copyright" thingie here! What are we all doing using LW (no, don't answer)? The point is, we aren't exactly saints. But we neither are "dirty criminals". If we are capable of twisting a wee bit about the copyright of the music, films, and whatever else, the same amount of "wee bit" can easily apply to IP addresses and other infos.

Don't get me wrong, Morgwen. I value your point, and to be fair, you are "right". It's just that we aren't, by definition, "right". :-)

(Oh, BTW if you were someone who's NEVER shared a copyrighted material on LW, you ARE a saint, and I'm not worthy talking to you)

OK, next time I post a listing from arin, ripe or apnic, I'll e-mail them and get permission from them to reproduce the information first. Then I'll wait for your next excuse for it being removed from the forum. :P

"I was wondering what one could do to stop people from downloading pornography of a minor that was put on lime wire without their consent."

probably nothing (what was the minor doing making porn anyway)

"Is there any way to stop something like that other than taking legal action?"

against who, the minor for making porn?

"Who would I need to contact?"

the minor's parents maybe?

"I have a friend who has been exploited on this site without her consent and is underage."

but did she consent to makiing the (underage) porn?

"It has now gone all over the country and it needs to be stopped. If necessary I and several others are prepared to file a lawsuit against whoever this involves."

why was is even started if she is underage? who will you file the lawsuit against? the whole country? or the minor for making the porn?

"If a reply is posted to this, I will give further necessary information so that this video can be pulled from this and any other site it may be on. If not, legal action will be taken."

what's the name of that file? i'd love to see it!

hey Morgwen, how can you copyright an IP address??
that makes no sense at all. maybe i'll copyright this™

No matter what I search for, all I'm getting back for results are these 272KB asf files. It appears that this Idiot has figured out a way to Spoof Gnutella, or maybe he's created hundreds or thousands of identical files..... what an *** this person is.

I think he's at IP Address:

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So, can we filter out this person ???

yeah, i've been getting the same thing, he somehow has a program that takes any search request & returns a file of that name (or if you're searching in any mode other than "any type" returns a file named "!.asf"). I added his ip to my block list (can't post it here because it'll get deleted) and that seemed to get rid of it.