(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Alright guys so the other day I doing my regular daily dose of dubstep listening (excision shambhala 2013) and I was searching the tracks in the mix that I liked. I usually download the tracks by just doing a simple google search and find a download via mediafire, zippy, etc. Then before downloading the 5th or 6th song a scary idea popped into my head.

What if the US government started putting "fake" files of mainstream music onto the internet, and record the i.p.'s of who downloads it, to try and crack down on illegal music downloading?

I mean I know that ISP's are doing this with torrents, putting fake people to download a torrent and then take the i.p.'s of all the seeders to that torrent. They then report seeders of a file to the ISP and if any i.p. matches your's they can then take legal action (of course the ISP can only take action on THEIR costumers)

So what do you guys think? Do you think the US government could do this? are they already doing it?

Leave what you think down below.

Personally I believe this could eventually happen; it would be fairly easy to do.

A couple cases of law firms being found guilty uploading files and suing people. Also a couple copyright holders doing the same thing.
Prenda Law is a recent example who has been found doing this.

Do think it shows is a case to look at copyright law along with companies abusing it. Not common place now but does happen from my understanding nobody in office has done it yet. People always find ways to exploit the law, sadly copyright is abused to take down content companies dislike or to make money.

i think your just a paranoid freak lol your probably that one crazy person on your street that everyone calls 'the wierd neighbor'

I've seen companies do this on a few torrents. But unless you're an idiot and don't know how to find a torrent file then I doubt anybody will get in trouble. (checking reviews, seeing the release date, seeing the seeders, etc) This can of course be debunked just through the use of proxies and maybe peerblock. As with direct downloads, unless the actual file has some form of rootkit in it (of course meaning that its a virus and therefore illegal) then I don't think companies will get them. Anything can be stopped just through the use of proxies. The GOVT on the otherhand have better things to worry about, they don't care about piracy, they care about their countries economy, their resources, everything else. Not petty music downloads.

Use a VPN

There's too many people that do this, so they'll be in over their heads if they even try.

In all honesty this could be already happening, just look at what happened a few months ago, an employee leaked that the government as recorded such an insane amount of phone calls, texts, messages ect. that they have a warehouse that is one super harddrive just to store all of the data. It is said 1 out of every 4 phone calls is recorded or listened on so I could see this being one way for them to stop piracy.

tl;dr goverment has nothing better to do so this could be true